inmoenis

immūnis ( inm- and archaic in-moenis ), e, adj. [in-munus], free or exempt from a public service, burāen, or charge (class.; cf.: expers, exsors).

I.

Lit.:

melius hi quam nos, qui piratas immunes, socios vectigales habemus,

Cic. Off. 3, 11, 49:

quid immunes? hi certe nihil debent,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 21, § 53:

sine foedere immunes civitates ac liberae,

id. ib. 2, 3, 6, § 13; id. Font. 4, 7:

immunis militiā,

Liv. 1, 43, 8:

Ilienses ab omni onere immunes praestitit,

Suet. Claud. 25:

qui agros immunes liberosque arant, i. e.,

free from taxes, tax-free, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 69, § 166; cf. id. Agr. 3, 2, 9:

duo milia jugerum Sexto Clodio rhetori assignasti, et quidem immunia,

Suet. Rhet. 5.—

(β).

With gen.:

immunes portoriorum,

Liv. 38, 14:

ceterorum immunes nisi propulsandi hostis,

Tac. A. 1, 36.—

B.

Transf., beyond the polit. and milit. sphere, free or exempt from, that contributes or gives nothing (mostly poet. ):

non cnim est inhumana virtus neque immunis neque superba,

inactive, Cic. Lael. 14, 50:

quem scis inmunem Cinarae placuisse rapaci,

who made no presents, without presents, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 33; id. C. 4, 12, 23:

Enipeus,

Ov. M. 7, 229:

immunisque sedens aliena ad pabula fucus,

doing nothing, idle, Verg. G. 4, 244:

ipsa quoque immunis rastroque intacta,

without compulsion, free, Ov. M. 1, 101.—In a play on the word: Ly. Civi inmuni scin quid cantari solet?... Ph. Verum, gnate mi, is est inmunis, quoi nihil est qui munus fungatur suum, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 69; 73.—

(β).

With gen.:

bos curvi immunis aratri,

Ov. M. 3, 11:

immunes operum,

id. ib. 4, 5.—

II.

Trop., not sharing or partaking in, free from, devoid of, without any thing ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose); constr. with gen., abl., with ab, or absol.

(α).

With gen.:

aspicit urbem Immunem tanti belli,

Verg. A. 12, 559:

tanti boni,

Ov. Tr. 4, 2, 62:

mali,

id. M. 8, 691:

necis,

exempt from, id. ib. 9, 253:

caedis manus,

free from, unstained with, id. H. 14, 8:

delictorum paternorum,

Vell. 2, 7:

aequoris Arctos,

not setting in, Ov. M. 13, 293 (an imitation of the Homeric ammoros loetrôn Ôkeanoio, Il. 18, 489); Ov. F. 4, 575.—

(β).

With abl.:

animum immunem esse tristitiā,

Sen. Ep. 85:

Cato omnibus humanis vitiis,

Vell. 2, 35, 2:

exercitum immunem tanta calamitate servavit,

id. 2, 120, 3.—

(γ).

With ab:

immunis ab omnibus arbitris esse,

Vell. 2, 14 fin.:

dentes a dolore,

Plin. 32, 4, 14, § 37. —

(δ).

Absol.:

immunis aram si tetigit manus,

stainless, pure, Hor. C. 3, 23, 17:

amicum castigare ob meritam noxiam, Inmoenest facinus,

a thankless office, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 1; cf.: inmoene, improbum, culpandum, vel interdum munere liberatum, Gloss. Plac. p. 476.