adjuvo

ad-jŭvo, jūvi, jūtum, 1, v. a. (very rare juvavi, juvatum;

hence, adjuvaturus,

Petr. Sat. 18: adjŭro or adjuero = adjuvero, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 1, 1:

adjuerit = adjuverit,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 4 ), to give aid to, to help, assist, support: aliquem. (Adjuvare applies to every kind of help or support; while auxiliari is only used of one who, from his weakness, needs assistance, and subvenire of one who is in difficulty or embarrassment; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 1, 7.)

I.

In gen.: O Tite, si quid te adjuero curamve levāsso quae nunc te coquit, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 1, 1 (Ann. v. 339 Vahl.): di me etsi perdunt, tamen esse adjutam expetunt, Pac. ap. Non. 97, 14 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 102):

miseras, inopes, aerumnosas aliquo auxilio,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 39:

operā me adjuves,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 3:

me adjuves in hac re,

id. And. 3, 3, 10:

id spero adjuturos deos (i. e. in ea re),

id. ib. 3, 2, 42:

ad verum probandum auctoritas adjuvat,

Cic. Quint. 23:

si nihil ad percipiendam colendamque virtutem litteris adjuvarentur,

id. Arch. 7, 16: maerorem orationis lacrimis suis, id. de Or. [p. 39] 2, 47:

Q. Hortensii operā rem publicam adjutam (esse),

id. Phil. 10, 26: si nos mediocris fortuna rei publicae adjuverit, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 15:

aliquem in filiarum collocatione,

id. Off. 2, 16:

auxiliis et copiis, i. e. militibus auxiliariis,

id. Fam. 1, 7; cf. Liv. 29, 5:

sua sponte eos adjutum profectus,

Nep. Chabr. 2; id. Milt. 2; id. Phoc. 2:

Antiochum Aetolosque adjuturos pronuntiat,

Liv. 34, 37:

fortĭs fortuna adjuvat,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 25, and Liv. 34, 37:

aliquem ad bellum,

id. 29, 1; cf. id. 27, 15 Drak.:

adjutus casu,

Suet. Tib. 13:

suffragio,

id. Vitell. 7:

manu alicujus,

id. Dom. 14:

adjuvare preces,

id. Ner. 21:

pennis adjutus amoris,

Ov. M. 1, 540; so Juv. 6, 504; Sil. 6, 249; cf. id. 5, 326.—

II.

Esp.

A.

To help, cherish (esp. a state of mind), to sustain:

jam tu quoque hujus adjuvas insaniam,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 166:

ferendus error immo vero etiam adjuvandus,

Cic. Att. 12, 43:

clamore Romani adjuvant militem suum,

animate, encourage, Liv. 1, 25; so Curt. 3, 6:

ignem,

Liv. 34, 39:

formam cură,

Ov. M. 2, 732.—

B.

Absol. (very rare), to profit, avail, be of use, be profitable (syn.: utile est, operae pretium est, convenit).

(α).

Impers.:

in re mala animo si bono utare, adjuvat,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 10.—

(β).

With subject:

solitudo aliquid adjuvat,

Cic. Att. 12, 14:

alteri non multum adjuvabant,

Caes. B. G. 7, 17:

adjuvat hoc quoque,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 73.

► Rare constructions. a.

With a whole subjective clause with quod as subject: multum eorum opinionem adjuvat, quod ( the circumstance that ) sine jumentis... ad iter profectos videbant, Caes. B. C. 1, 69. —

b.

With two acc.:

irrides in re tanta? neque me quidquam consilio adjuvas?

Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 29; cf. Rudd. II. p. 179, n. 75.—

c.

With ut or ne:

ut amplissimum nomen consequeremur, unus praeter ceteros adjuvisti,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 15:

adjuvato, nequis liminis obseret tabellam,

Cat. 324.—

d.

With inf.: adjuvat enim (pater, the male ) incubare, helps to hatch, Plin. 11, 24, 29, § 85.—

e.

With the dat. of the person and the acc. of the thing:

operam mutuam dent et messem hanc nobis adjuvent,

Gell. 2, 29; cf. adjuto.—Hence, adjŭvans, antis, P. a., subst. with gen.:

non haec adjuvantia causarum, sed has ipsas esse omnium causas,

Cic. Univ. 14.