divus

dīvus, a, um, also dīus, a, um, (without the digamma) adj. [dios], of or belonging to a deity, divine.

I.

Prop. (mostly archaic and poet. ). As an adj. very rarely: res [p. 604] divas edicit, Naev. ap. Non. 197, 15; so,

diva caro,

Prud. Psych. 76: DIUM fulgur appellabant diurnum, quod putabant Jovis, ut nocturnum Summani, Paul. ex Fest. p. 75, 14 Müll.—Far more freq.,

B.

Subst.: dīvus ( dīus ), i, m., and dīva ( dia ), ae, f., a god, a goddess, a deity.

(α).

Form dīvus: si divus, si diva, esset, etc., a precatory formula in Liv. 7, 26; cf. ib. 29, 27; 8, 9:

is divus (sc. Apollo) exstinguet perduelles vestros, Carm. Marcii,

ib. 25, 12; cf.:

dive, quem proles Niobea, etc.,

Hor. C. 4, 6, 1:

mortalin' decuit violari vulnere divum?

Verg. A. 12, 797:

utinam me divi adaxint ad suspendium,

Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 11:

divi,

Lucr. 6, 387; Verg. A. 3, 363; 12, 28; Hor. C. 4, 2, 38 al.:

divos,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 133; Cic. Leg. 2, 8; Verg. E. 1, 42; id. A. 3, 222; Hor. C. 2, 8, 11; id. S. 2, 3, 176 et saep.: divumque hominumque pater, rex, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 65 Müll.; Verg. A. 1, 65; 2, 648; 10, 2 et saep.:

divom atque hominum clamat fidem,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 20; cf.:

pro divum fidem,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 28;

more rarely, divorum,

Verg. A. 7, 211:

(munera) digna diva venustissima Venere,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 4:

Turni sic est affata sororem Diva deam,

i. e. Juno, Verg. A. 12, 139; cf. id. ib. 1, 447;

482: Diva Bona for Bona Dea,

Ov. F. 5, 148: divos scelerare parentes, the family gods = theoi patrôoi, Cat. 64, 404.—

(β).

Form dīus: Dii Indigetes Diique Manes, a precatory formula in Liv. 8, 9: Dia Dearum, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 301 Müll. (Ann. v. 22, ed. Vahl.); cf.:

DEA DIA,

i. e. Ceres, Inscr. Orell. 961 and 1499: Venus pulcherrima dium, Enn. ap. Prob. ap. Verg. E. 6, 31.—

II.

Transf.

A.

Godlike, divine, an epithet applied to any thing deified or of extraordinary excellence or distinction:

urbi Romae divae,

Liv. 43, 6; cf.

sarcastically: est ergo flamen, ut Jovi, etc., sic divo Julio M. Antonius,

Cic. Phil. 2, 43: Romule die, Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64 (Ann. v. 115, ed. Vahl.): Ilia dia nepos, id. ap. Fest. p. 286, 16 Müll. (Ann. v. 56, ed. Vahl.):

dia Camilla,

Verg. A. 11, 657:

dias in luminis oras,

Lucr. 1, 22; so,

Voluptas,

id. 2, 172:

otia,

id. 5, 1389: profundum (cf. hals dia), Ov. M. 4, 537:

sententia Catonis,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 32:

poëmata,

Pers. 1, 31 et saep.—After the Aug. period divus became a frequent epithet for the deceased Roman emperors in the historians, and on coins and inscriptions, Suet. Dom. 23; Liv. Epit. 137.—

B.

dīvum, i, n., the sky, Varr. L. L. 5, § 65 Müll.—Esp. freq., sub divo, like sub Jove, under the open sky, in the open air, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 19 Zumpt N. cr.; Varr. L. L. l. l.; Cels. 1, 2; Suet. Caes. 72; Verg. G. 3, 435; Hor. C. 2, 3, 23 et saep.:

sub divum rapiam,

id. ib. 1, 18, 13.