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molior

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Latin

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Etymology

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From mōlēs (a pile, heap).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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mōlior (present infinitive mōlīrī or mōlīrier, perfect active mōlītus sum); fourth conjugation, deponent

  1. to strive, endeavor, work at
  2. to put in motion, shake, move
  3. to rouse, bestir
  4. to undertake, start, begin, commence
  5. to erect, construct
  6. (figuratively) to attempt, stir up
    • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Persa 5.2.8:
      Quia eī fidem nōn habuī argentī, eō mihi eās māchinās mōlītu'st.
      Because I had no trust in him about the silver, he laid me these machinations.
    • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations 1.8:
      Nihil agis, nihil mōlīris, nihil cōgitās quod nōn ego nōn modo audiam sed etiam videam plānēque 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.
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 1.268–272:
      Quippe etiam fēstīs quaedam exercēre diēbus
      fās et iūra sinunt: rīvōs dēdūcere nūlla
      rēligiō vetuit, segetī praetendere saepem,
      īnsidiās avibus mōlīrī, incendere veprēs,
      bālantumque gregem fluviō mersāre salūbrī.
      Of course, even on holidays to do some tasks
      divine order and laws allow: to guide down the rills no
      religion has forbidden, to lay a hedge in front of a crop,
      to set the birds traps, to burn bushes,
      to bathe the bleating herd in the clean river.

Conjugation

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1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

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References

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  • molior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • molior in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • 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[1], 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