HABENA, see _Frenum_.
HABERE, see _Tenere_.
HABITARE, see _Incolere_.
HABITUS, see _Vestis_.
HACTENUS, see _Adhuc_.
HÆDUS, see _Caper_.
HÆRERE; PENDERE. +Hærere+ (#cheiroô#?) means to stick, and not to be
loose, or able to get forwards; +pendere+ (#petesthai#), to be
suspended, and prevented from falling to the ground. Cic. Acad. ii. 39.
Ut videamus terra penitusne defixa sit et radicibus suis _hæreat_, an
media _pendeat_. (vi. 154.)
HÆSITARE, see _Cunctari_.
HARENA, see _Sabulo_.
HARIOLARI; VATICINARI. +Hariolari+ (from #chran#) means to foretell,
with the accessory notion of charlatanism, like #chrêsmologein#; whereas
+vaticinari+ (from vates, #êchetês#,) to foretell, with the accessory
notion of inspiration, like #manteuesthai#. In Cic. Divin. i. 2,
_Hariolorum_ et _vatum_ furibundæ prædictiones, it is only the
_harioli_, who from their position and in public estimation already pass
for charlatans; whereas the _vates_ are charlatans only, as Cicero
himself views them from his philosophical elevation. (iii. 76.)
HASTA, see _Missile_.
HAUD SCIO AN, see _Casu_.
HELLUO, see _Prodigus_.
HELVUS, see _Luteus_.
HEROS, see _Numen_.
HILARIS, see _Gaudere_.
HIRCUS, see _Caper_.
HIRSUTUS, HIRTUS, HISPIDUS, see _Horridus_.
HISTORIÆ, see _Annales_.
HISTRIO, see _Actor_.
HOEDUS, see _Caper_.
HOMICIDA; INTERFECTOR; PEREMTOR; INTEREMTOR; PERCUSSOR; SICARIUS.
+Homicida+ denotes the manslayer in a general sense, as far as
manslaughter is a crime, like #androphonos#; whereas +interfector+,
+peremtor+, and +interemtor+, only the slayer of a particular person,
whether the deed be a crime or not, like #phoneus#; +percussor+ and
+sicarius+ denote the instruments of another's will, and mere mechanical
executioners of another's decree; but the _percussor_ executes a public
sentence of condemnation, as the headsman, while the _sicarius_ lends
and hires out his hand to a secret assassination, like the bandit. Cic.
Rosc. Am. 33, 93. Erat tum multitudo sicariorum . . . et homines impune
occidebantur. . . Si eos putas . . . quos qui leviore nomine appellant,
_percussores_ vocant, quæro in cujus fide sint et tutela. (iii. 191.)
HOMO; MAS; VIR; HOMUNCULUS; HOMUNCIO; HOMULLUS. 1. +Homo+ (Goth. guma,
from humus, #chthôn#, #epichthonios#), means a human being, man or
woman, in opp. to _deus_ and _bellua_, like #anthrôpos#; +mas+ and +vir+
mean only the man; +mas+ in a physical sense, in opp. to _femina_, like
#arsên#; +vir+ (Goth. wair, from #irênes#), in a physical sense, in opp.
to _mulier_, like #anêr#. Sen. Polyb. 36. Non sentire mala sua non est
_hominis_, at non ferre non est _viri_. Ep. 103. Cic. Tusc. ii. 22. Fam.
v. 17. Justin, xi. 13. 2. +Homunculus+ denotes the weak and powerless
being called man, with reference to the whole race, in opp. to the
Deity, to nature in general, to the universe, etc.; +homuncio+ and
+homullus+ denote the weak and insignificant man, as an individual, in
opp. to other men; +homuncio+, with a feeling of pity; +homullus+, with
a feeling of scorn. (v. 133.)
HONESTAS, see _Virtus_.
HONESTUS, see _Bonus_.
HONORARE; HONESTARE. +Honorare+ means to honor any body, by paying him
singular respect, and yielding him honor; but +honestare+ means to
dignify, or confer a permanent mark of honor upon any body.
HORNUS; HORNOTINUS. +Hornus+ (#chthesinos#) that which is of this year,
as a poetical, +hornotinus+, as a prosaic word.
HORRIDUS; HIRTUS; HIRSUTUS; HISPIDUS; ASPER. +Horridus+ (from #chersos#,
#chortaios#), is the most general expression for whatever is rough and
rugged, from want of formation; +hirtus+ and +hirsutus+ refer
particularly to what is covered with rough hair, in opp. to what is soft
and smooth; +hispidus+ and +asper+, to rough elevations, in opp. to what
is level; +hispidus+, to the roughness that offends the eye; +asper+, to
the roughness that causes pain. Vell. P. ii. 4. describes Marius as
_hirtus et horridus_; _hirtus_ referring to his neglected exterior,
_horridus_, to his rough nature. (vi. 161.)
HORROR, see _Vereri_.
HORTARI; MONERE. The +hortatio+ (#orthôsis#, #erethô#), addresses itself
immediately to the will and resolution; whereas the +monitio+, almost
entirely to the consciousness and judgment. The +hortatio+ has always an
action for its object; the +monitio+, only a representation, and by the
medium of that representation, an action for its object. Sall. Jug. 60.
_Monere_ alii, alii _hortari_. Cat. 60. Nequidquam _hortere_ . . . Sed
ego vos quo pauca _monerem_, convocavi. Sen. Ep. 13. Nimium diu te
_cohortor_, cum tibi _admonitione_ magis quam _exhortatione_ opus sit.
Cic. Fam. x. 40. Si aut aliter sentirem, certe _admonitio_ tua me
reprimere, aut si dubitarem, _hortatio_ impellere posset. (i. 164.)
HOSPES; ADVENTOR. +Hospes+ is the guest who visits his friend;
+adventor+, the person who puts up at his host's. Sen. Benef. i. 14.
Nemo se stabularii aut cauponis _hospitem_ judicat. (iv. 392.)
HOSPES, see _Externus_.
HOSPITIUM, see _Deversorium_.
HOSTIS, see _Adversarius_.
HUCUSQUE, see _Adhuc_.
HUMANITAS; COMITAS; FACILITAS; CIVILITAS. +Humanitas+ is a virtue of
universal extent, which, like the mental cultivation, proceeding from
intelligence, ennobles the whole man in mind and heart, and gives to his
nature mildness and philanthropy, as a principle; in opp. to _feritas_;
+comitas+ (from #kosmos#) is a moral virtue, which, like affability,
without respect to higher rank in society, treats every man as a man;
+facilitas+, a social virtue, which, like complaisance, by forbearance
and meeting the views of others, facilitates mutual intercourse in life,
and makes it pleasant; +civilitas+, a political virtue, which, like the
republican feeling of a prince, makes the specific difference between a
ruler and his people unfelt, and treats his subjects as fellow-citizens.
Nep. Milt. 8. In Miltiade erat quum summa _humanitas_, tum mira
_comitas_, ut nemo tam humilis esset cui non ad eum aditus pateret.
(v. 6.)
HUMANITUS; HUMANE; HUMANITER. +Humanitus+ means in a human manner, in
objective reference to the exterior condition of man, namely, that of
weakness and mortality, like #anthrôpeiôs#, #anthrôpinôs#; whereas
+humane+ and +humaniter+, in subjective reference to man's capacity for
and propensity towards cultivation; _humane facere_ is the result of
moral cultivation, like #philanthrôpôs#; _humaniter facere_ is the
result of social cultivation, like #epieikôs#. (v. 8.)
HUMARE, see _Sepelire_.
HUMERUS, see _Armus_.
HUMIDUS, see _Udus_.
HUMUS, see _Tellus_.