molior
Latin
Etymology
From mōlēs (“a pile, heap”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmoː.li.or/, [ˈmoːlʲiɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmo.li.or/, [ˈmɔːlior]
Verb
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- I strive, endeavor, work at.
- I rouse, bestir.
- I erect, construct.
- (figuratively) I undertake, attempt, stir up.
- 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations[1]:
- Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.
- You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.
- Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.
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References
- “molior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “molior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- molior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare
- to be busy with ambitious projects: magna moliri
- to meditate crime: scelera moliri (Att. 7. 11)
- to shake credit: fidem moliri (Liv. 6. 11. 8)
- to plot a revolution: novas res moliri (Verr. 2. 125)
- to meditate war: bellum moliri
- to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare