NEC 
NEC 
NEF 
NSCDUM, or NEQUE DUM (nec, or ne¬ 
que, & dum), and not yet. Cic. Hie 
quid agat, si scis, neque dum Roma es 
profectus, scribas ad me velim. - 
If Also, not yet. Virg. Necdum perfec- 
ta cauebat. 
NECeSSaRIe, and NECESSARro (neces- 
sarius), adv. necessarily, of necessity. 
Cic. Necessarie demonstrantur. Id. 
Quibuscum vivo necessario. Ctes. Quod 
necessario rem Cresari enuntiarit. 
NECicSSaRIuS (necesse), a, um, adj. 
necessary, unavoidable, inevitable. Cic. 
Mors necessaria. Cic. Necessarius ca¬ 
sus. Id. Leges fatales et necessarias. 
Id. Senatori necessariurn est nosse 
rempublicam. Cies. Necessaria re co- 
actus, by necessity. -IT Also, urgent, 
pressing. Cic. Necessariurn tempus. 
- II Also, necessary, forced. Cic. 
Rogationes necessaria:. — Also, ncccssa- 
ry, needful, indispensable. Cic. Omnia 
ad vitam necessaria. Id. Quod mihi 
maxi me necessariurn. Sueton. Neces¬ 
sitous qurestioni. ( TertuU. uses nccessa- 
rwr). — — Also, closely connected by re¬ 
lationship, friendship, &c. and lienee, a 
friend, relation, client, patron. Nepos. 
Ab homine tain necessario relictus, so 
nearly related. Mat. in Cic. Ep. Mors 
fioininis necessarii, of a friend. Cic. 
Hujus propinqua et necessaria. Id. 
Mens familiaris ac necessarius. Id. 
Cerelliaj, necessariie me® rem, com- 
meridavi tibi, my client. Id. Necessa- 
rios provincial patrons. 
N£CeSSe (unc.), adject, n. indeclin. 
necessary , of necessity , inevitable. Cic. 
Nihil fit, quod necesse non fuerit. 
Cato. Eo minus habeo necesse scribere. 
Id. Homini necesse est mori, man is 
doomed to die. Id. Necesse fuit dari 
literas. Id. Boves vendat necesse est. 
ATq». Leuctrica pugna immortalis sit, 
necesse est. — Rarely followed by j it. 
Oell. Neque necesse est, hodie uti vos 
auferam. —— IT Also, necessary, needful. 
Cic. Quod tibi necesse minime fuit. 
NEGeSSITaS (necesse), atis, f. necessity, 
needfulness, force, compulsion, constraint, 
fate, dvdy/cy. Cic. Fatalis necessiitas. 
Herat. Te semper anteit s®va necessi- 
tas, ruthless destiny. Id. Necessitati pa- 
rere. Id. Veniam necessitati dare. Id. 
Necessitati servire. Id. Necessitate co- 
actus. Id. Nulla necessitate adstrictus. 
Ctes. adductus. Cic. Necessitatem ali- 
cui afferre. Id. imponere. Id. Necessi¬ 
ties mihi obvenit cujuspiam rei. Tacit. 
Pvecessitas ingruit. Ilirt. Ad necessita¬ 
tem adductus dimicandi, necessitated, 
compelled, constrained. Tacit. Ex ne¬ 
cessitate aliquid facere, of necessity. 
Lie. Majores necessitates, more pressing 
circumstances. Tacit. Suprema neces- 
sitas, death. So, Id. Necessitas ulti¬ 
ma. ——IT Necessitates, necessary things, 
wants, interests. Cas. Suarum necessi- 
tatum causa. - IT Also, necessary 
charges. Tacit. Necessitates ac largi- 
tiones. - IT Also, neediness, want. 
Sueton. Faraem et ceteras necessitates 
tolerare.-IT Also, relation, connection , 
acquaintance , intimacy. Cic. Magnain 
necessitatem possidet paternus sanguis. 
Id. Si nostram accusatione sua neces- 
sitatem familiaritatemque violasset. 
NkCeSSITuDB (Id.), Inis, f. necessity, 
avayur). Cic. Puto hanc esse necessi- 
tudinem, cui nulla vi resisti potest. 
Sallust. Ooactus rerum necessitudine. 
]f Also, need, want, distress. Sallust. 
jnopia aut alia necessitudo. Tacit. 
Lecessitudine reipublicre ad arma civi- 
■! a actus, the distressed condition. - 
■' Also, a necessary connection, natural 
bond, and hence, connection of persons, 
as friends, relatives, patrons, clients, 
colleagues, &.c. the tie of relationship, 
bond of friendship ; acquaintance, intima¬ 
cy. Sallust. Jugurth* filia Bocchi nup- 
serat: verum ea necessitudo apud Nu- 
nndas ievis ducitur. Cic. Hanc qures- 
turic liherorum necessitudini proximam 
esse. Cic. Omnes amicitiic necessitu- 
umes. Cats. Necessitudines regni, ties 
of hospitality between the king and his 
P° m V e V- Cic. Necessitudo et 
amnitas. Id. Familiaritatis, necessitu- 
misque oblitus. Id. Recipere aliquem 
“i suam necessitudinem. Id. Necessitu- 
dinemsancte colere. — Hence, Necessi¬ 
tudines, the persons thus connected : rela¬ 
tions, connections, friends, &c. §ueton. 
Revisere necessitudines, A. e. his mother 
and children. Id. Necessitudines, ami- 
cosque omnes. Tacit. Respectu sua¬ 
rum necessitudinum, nihil in Doinitia- 
nuin atrox parabat. 
NECeSSS (Id.), as, a. 1. to eces.Ht.atc , 
3 compel. Tenant. Fortun. 
NECeSSUM, adj. neut. indeci. ecessary, 
'2 unavoidable. Plaid. Necessum est ven- 
dere. Lucrct. Necessum est confiteare. 
NeG^NE, or NEC NE (nec &. ne), parti¬ 
cle of interrogation or doubt, used after 
ut.runi, ne or quid. Cic. Sin trie dii, nec 
ne, or not, or no. Cces. Utrum preelium 
committi, nec ne. Cic. Quid possitefii- 
ci, nec he, est videndum. The ne and 
utrumme often understood. Nep. Non- 
dum enim statuerat, euin conservaret, 
necne. Terent. Nunc, habeam, nec ne, 
incertmn est, whether I have, it, or not. 
NECNON, NEC NON, or NEQUE NON, 
and, also, and also, and besides. See 
Nec. 
NEC5 (nex), as, avi, atum, and, more 
rarely, cui, ctum, to put to death, slay, 
kill, destroy, ijiovebw, k reive'. Cic. Le¬ 
gation omni supplicio excruciatum ne- 
cavit. Suet. Consanguineorum maim 
necari. Cic. Plebem fame necare, to 
starve to death. Ilorat. Ferro necare 
aliquem. Lucrct. odore tetro. Ooiil. 
morsu. Cces. igni, atque omnibus tor- 
mentis. Sueton. veneno. — Also, of 
plants, to kill, destroy. Plin. Salsi im- 
bres necant frumenta. Id. Necat gra- 
mina pinus. - IT Also, to quench. 
Plin. Aqu® flammas necant. — And 
figur. Senec. Necas rectam indolem, 
thwart , check. IT Also, to tease, tor¬ 
ment, bore. Plant. 
NECOPINANS, NEC OPINANS, or NE¬ 
QUE OPINaNS (nec & opinans), adj. 
not expecting. PhcEdr. Concidit gravi 
casu necopinans. Cic. Ariobarzanem 
necopinantem iiberavi, when he least ex¬ 
pected it; little thinking of it. Ilirt. Cre- 
sar neque opinans, imparatusque op- 
pressus. 
NECOPINATo, or NEC OPTNATo (nec- 
opinatus), adv. unexpectedly, suddenly, 
unawares. Cic. 
NEC5PINAT0S, or NEC OPINATOS (nec 
& opinor), a, um, adj. unexpected, un¬ 
looked for, sudden , dddxiyrof. Cic. and 
Liv. 
NECOPiNRS, or NEC 5PTN0S (nec & 
opinus, not used), a, urn, adj. unexpected, 
unlooked for. Ovid. mors. Phcedr. Tp- 
sum accipiter necopinum rapit. 
NECROMaNTIX ( vCKpopavrcia), s, f. 
2 necromancy, divination by evoking the 
dead. Lactant. — Plin. calls Necroman- 
tia Ilomeri, that part of the Odyssey, in 
which Ulysses is described as enterincr the 
regions of the dead, and conversing"with 
the shades. 
NkCTaR (i/fvrap),5ris, n. nectar, the drink 
of the gods. Cic. Non enim ambrosia 
deos, aut nectare l®tari arbitror.- 
IT Also, the balm or balsam of the gods. 
Ovid. Met. iv. 250. - IT Also, any 
thing sweet, liquor, odor, &c. Virg. Et 
dulci distendunt nectare cellas, Honey. 
Stat. Bacch®um nectar, wine. Ovid. 
Oves, pleno qu® fertis in tibere nectar, 
milk. Lucret. Nardi florum, nectar qui 
naribus halant, a sweet perfume. Ilorat. 
Oscula qu® Venus quinta parte sui 
nectaris imbuit. 
NeCTAREOS (veKrapcoi), <t, um, adj. of 
nectar, vectared, nectareous. Ovid. Nec- 
tareis quod alatur aquis, dew. -IT Al¬ 
so, sweet as nectar. Martial. Falernum 
neetareum.-IT Nectarea, absol. ele¬ 
campane, a plant used for flavoring wine. 
Plin. 
NeCTARITeS (nectareus), re, m. a wine 
flavored with elecampane. Plin. 
NECT5 (unc.), is, xui and xi, xum, a. 3. 
to tie or link together, tic in a knot, knit, 
bind, lie, join, or fasten together, connect, 
ttAskm. Virg. Necte tribus nodis ter- 
nos, Amarylli, colores. Horat. Medo 
nectis catenas. Id. Necte meo Lami® 
coronam, knit, weave. Ovid. Pars bra- 
cbia nectit, intwine. Horat. Nectere 
cuipiam laqueum. Virg. talaria pedi- 
bus. Plin.Ep. aiicui compedes. Mar¬ 
tial. vinculum colio. Omd. coma» 
myrto.-IT Also, to bind, confine, hold 
in bondage. Liv. Nexi ob res alienum, 
and, Id. Nexi, absol. insolvent debtors 
given up to their creditors as sluves. Id. 
Ne in posterum necterentur, should not 
be reduced to slavery. -Hence, figur. 
to hind by an obligation, pledge. Justin. 
Sacramento nexi. Pandect. Res pigno- 
ri nexa, pawned. -IT Also, to join, 
connect. Cic. Videtisne, quanta series 
rerum sit, atque ut ex alio alia nectan- 
tur? hang or depend upon. Id. Ex hoc 
genere causarum fatum nectitur. Ovid. 
Numeris verba nectere, to write poetry. 
Senec. Nectens verba crecis modis, in¬ 
volving, enveloping, perplexing. Ovid. 
jurgia cum aliquo, to chide, reprove, re¬ 
buke. Liv. dolum, to contrive, hatch. 
Virg. causas inanes, to frame idle pre¬ 
tences. Tacit, rnoras, to contrive or 
caicse delay. Val. Flacc. foedera, to make 
a treaty. 
NeCuBI (ne & aiicubi), adv. lest any 
where, that no where. Cces. Necubi Ro¬ 
mani copias transducerent. 
NeCuNDE (ne &. aliounde), adv. lest from 
any place, that from no place. Liv. Ne- 
cunde impetus in frumentatores fieret. 
NECVDALuS (i/txfduA os), i, m. the silk¬ 
worm before it takes the name of bombvx. 
Plin. 
NeDUM, adv. not to say, not only, ox>x’ 
boon, ovx 1 uf. Cic. Nedum morbum 
removisti, sed etiarn gravedinem.- 
IT Also, not to say, much less. Cic. Op- 
timis temporibus; nedum his tempori- 
bus. Liv. Nedum ut ulla vis fieret. 
Cic. Nedum in mari sit facile. - 
If Also, much more. Liv. Qure vel so- 
cios, nedum bostes victos terrere pos- 
sent. Sueton. Privatis deformia, ne¬ 
dum principi. 
NEFaNDe (nefandus), adv. impiously, 
2 appfiTcog. Sallust, fragm. Multa ne- 
fande ausi. 
NEFaNDOS (ne & fandus), a, um, adj. 
not to be named or mentioned, impious, 
base, heinous, execrable, abominable, tippr]- 
ro;. Cic. Per nefandumscelus. Virg. 
Deos memores fandi atque nefandi, 
wrong, impiety. Quintil. Nefandi homi¬ 
nes. Cic. Nefanda arma. Justin. Ne- 
fandissimum caput. 
NEFANS (ne & fans), antis, adj. the same 
'3 as Nefandus. Lucil. Facta nefantia. 
NEFaRTe (nefarius), adverb, impiously, 
wickedly, heinously. Cic. Qure nefarie 
fiagitioseque facta sunt. Id. Impie ne- 
farieque committere aliquid. Id. Pes- 
tem patrire nefarie moliti. 
NEFARIOS (nefas), a, um, adj. wicked, 
impious, base, heinous, enormous, abomi¬ 
nable, execrable, nefarious, apfiyros, av6- 
vtof, dStpuaros. Cic. Homo nefarius 
et impius. Id. Voluntates nefarire. 
Id. Scelestum ac nefarium /acinus. — 
Hence, Nefarium, i, n. a crime, heinous 
act. Id. Multa cotnmemorare nefaria 
in socios. Liv. Rempublicam nefario 
obstringere. 
NEFaS (ne&fas), n. indeclin. not law¬ 
ful; unlawful, criminal, aSepiarov. Cic. 
Officia tua mihi nefas est oblivisci. Id. 
Mercurium /Egypt!i nefas liabent nomi¬ 
nate. Cats. Quibus nefas deserere 
patronos. Nep. Patrire irasci nefas esse 
ducebat. -IT Also, .a crime, wicked 
deed, horrid wickedness ;Hmpiet.y, xcicked- 
ness, villany. Juvenal.' Grande nefas, 
et morte piandum. Virg. Nefas triste 
piare. Id. Dirumque nefas in pectore 
versat. Id. Ausi omnes immane nefas. 
Liv. Per fas et nefas, through right and 
wrong. -IT Also, as an interjection, 
0 ! horrid, shocking! shameful! Virg 
Sequiturque (nefas !) /Egyptia conjux, 
shameful to relate ! Horat. Heu nefas, 
heu ! Virg. Virgo visa, nefas ! com- 
prendere crinibus ignem, wonderful to 
relate. - IT Also, impossible. Horat. 
Levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere 
est nefas.-IT Also, a wicked person. 
Virg. Extinxisse nefas, h. e. Helm. 
-IT Nefas is an offence against God 
and nature, an act of impiety ; scelus, an 
offence against the peace of society, or the 
rights of others, a crime; flagitium, an 
offence against one’s self. 
NEFASTOS (ne & fastus), a, um, adj. 
not right, wrong , not allowed by the laws 
