help (v.) Copy link Outline I. To furnish aidII. To serve with portions of food1. porrĭgo, rexi, ctum, 32. dīvĭdo, vīsi, sum, 33. carpo, 3 (to cut up)III. To avoid, prevent • help (v.): I. To furnish aid: jŭvo, adjŭvo, subvĕnio, succurro, etc.: v. to assist. See also to contribute (II.), facilitate. Phr.: so h. me God, ita me di (bene) ament, Ter. Ph. 1, 3, 13: medius fidius, Cic.: Plin. jun. II. To serve with portions of food: 1. porrĭgo, rexi, ctum, 3: Hor. S. 1, 8, 30: Petr. 34. 2. dīvĭdo, vīsi, sum, 3: Petr. 33; 40, extr. 3. carpo, 3 (to cut up): v. to carve. Phr.: we h. ourselves to the choicest things, res electissimas aggredimur, Petr. 36. III. To avoid, prevent: Phr.: I can't h. exclaiming, non possum quin exclamem, Pl. in Cic. de Or. 2, 10, 39; but facere non possum quin, is more usual, Cic. Att. 12, 27: what can't be h.'d, quidquid corrigere est nefas, Hor. Od. 1, 24, extr.: it can't be h.'d, fieri non potest aliter, Cic. Att. 6, 6, 4.
HELP Copy link • HELP 1. v. Assist, juvare: adjuvare: adjumento esse alicui: auxilium ferre alicui: auxiliari alicui: esse alicui auxilio. opem ferre alicui: opitulari alicui: succurrere alicui: alicui subsidio venire: alicui subvenire: sublevare aliquem; with anything, aliqua re; in anything, in aliqua re [SYN. in AID, v.] : subsidium or auxilium ferre alicui. To help each other, tradere mutuas operas: to help anybody in (doing) anything, aliquem opera juvare in aliqua re; alicui opitulari in aliqua re facienda; operam suam commodare alicui ad aliquid; operam praebere alicui in aliqua re: to help anybody to look for anything, alicui opitulari in aliqua re quaerenda; to write or compose anything, aliquem adjuvare unaque scribere (Ter., Ad., Prol., 6). So help me God! ita me Deus adjuvet or amet! God help you! Deus te sospitet! To come to help anybody when it is too late, navem mortuo applicare (Prov., Auct. Quint., Decl., 12, 23). (α) To help anybody to anything, opitulari alicui in aliqua re (e.g., to a fortune, in re vel quaerenda vel augenda): prospicere alicui aliquid (e.g., to a husband, maritum): quaerere alicui aliquid (e.g., to a husband or wfe, conditionem = “a match”): expedire alicui aliquid (e.g., to money, pecuniam). To help anybody to a place or office, *efficere, ut munus alicui deferatur; to a thought, alicui aliquid subjicere or suggerere (to suggest it to him); alicujus cogitationis initium afferre (to put him on the right track, as it were). (β) To help anybody into his carriage, tollere aliquem in currum; upon his horse, subjicere aliquem in equum. (γ) To help anybody out of anything [Vid: To EXTRICATE]. To help forward [Vid: To FORWORD, PROMOTE]. Forbear, avoid. By facere non possum (or sometimes non possum only) with quin, etc.; or fieri non potest, ut non etc.; or non possum non, with following infinitive. I cannot help exclaiming, non possum, quin exclamem: I cannot help thanking you, non possum, quin tibi gratias agam: I can not help confessing, that I am excessively delighted (that, etc.), non possum non confiteri, cumulari me maximo gaudio (quod etc.). Prevent, etc., prohibere aliquid, ne fiat: medicinam alicujus rei invenire: (to lament for) what you might have helped, quod potuisti prohibere, ne fieret: it cannot be helped, they [the witnesses] must be produced, nihil potest, producendi sunt. I could not help, non potui prohibere (e.g., aliquem, quin proficisceretur). Help to anything (at table), apponere (to place before; e.g., panes convivis, Suet., Calig., 37). To help (= carve) a joint, etc.; Vid: To CARVE. 2. INTRANS, conferre ad aliquid: vim habere, valere ad aliquid: prodesse, adjuvare ad aliquid (adjectively also with ut). 3. s. Vid. AID, ASSISTANCE.