propitious Copy link Outline 1. prŏpĭtius (favourable, kind)2. aequus (esp. poet.)3. praesens, ntis (ready and potent to aid)4. faustus (not of persons)5. sĕcundus (poet.) • propitious: 1. prŏpĭtius (favourable, kind): so may the gods be p. to me! ita deos mihi velim propitios! Cic. Div. Verr. 13, 41. (But propitius does not carry with it that notion of superhuman agency which mostly belongs to the Eng.) 2. aequus (esp. poet.): Venus p. to the Teucrians, aequa Venus Teucris, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 6: Hor.: cf. Cic. Or. 10, 34 (aequus placatusque). 3. praesens, ntis (ready and potent to aid): p. Mercury, p. Mercurius, Hor. S. 2, 3, 68: Ov.: cf. Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28 (tantus et tam p. Deus). 4. faustus (not of persons): v. auspicious. 5. sĕcundus (poet.): Virg. Aen. 4, 45. Join: praesentes ac secundi [dii], Liv. 7, 26, med. (Often expr. by a verb; as, favere, adesse, aspirare: the gods being p., faventibus diis, Suet. Gal. 10: be p., ye gods, to my undertaking! Di coeptis aspirate meis! Ov. Met. 1, 3.) See also favourable. Phr.: the victims (omens) are p., lĭtatur: usu. with dat. of the deity to whom the victim is offered: the omens in some cases are p., in others not so, litatur aliis, aliis non litatur, Cic. Div. 2, 17, init.: also the act. may be used: to Manlius the omens had been extremely p., Manlium egregie litasse, Liv. 8, 9.
PROPITIOUS Copy link • PROPITIOUS(of persons), propitius; aequus favens, amicus, alicui; benevolus alicui or in aliquem: (of things), secundus; faustus; prosper; commodus; opportunus; bonus.