memoria

mĕmŏrĭa, ae, f. [memor].

I.

The faculty of remembering, memory, recollection (class.):

ubi me fugiet memoria,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 2:

Edepol, memoria's optumad,

id. Mil. 1, 1, 45:

bona,

Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

segnis ac lenta,

Sen. Ep. 74, 1:

tenacissima,

Quint. 1, 1, 19:

Hortensius memoriā tantā fuit, ut, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 88, 301:

hoc in memoria mea penitus insedit,

id. de Or. 2, 28, 122:

in memoriam redigere,

to recall to mind, recollect, id. Fam. 1, 9, 9; so,

in memoriam reducere,

id. Inv 1, 52, 98 memoriā comprehendere, to hold in the memory, commit to memory, id. do Or. 1, 34, 154:

memoriā tenere,

id. Sen. 4, 12; Caes. B. G. 1, 14:

memoriā custodire,

Cic. de Or. 1, 28, 127:

memoriam agitare,

to exercise the memory, Quint. 1, 8, 14:

habere in memoriā,

to remember, Ter. And. 1, 1, 13:

hoc est mihi in memoriā,

in my recollection, Cic. Sull. 13, 37:

deponere aliquid ex memoriā,

to forget a thing, id. ib. 6, 18:

memoriam alicujus deponere,

to forget, Caes. B. G. 1, 14:

si memoria fefellerit,

Quint. 11, 3, 127:

hoc fugit memoriam meam,

has escaped my recollection, id. 4, 5, 3:

Carthaginem excidisse de memoriā,

Liv. 29, 19, 12; cf.:

memoriā cedere,

id. 2, 33, 9:

memoriā abire,

id. 2, 4, 2 ut mea memoria est, Cic. Att. 13, 31, 4:

ex memoriā exponam,

from memory, id. Cat. 3, 6, 13.—

II.

Memory, remembrance:

si quid faciendumst mulieri male... Ibi ei inmortalis memoriast meminisse,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 15: verterunt sese memoriae, remembrances are altered, i. e. times are changed, id. Truc. 2, 1, 10:

memoriā dign' viri,

Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 2:

nostrae,

id. Fam. 8, 3, 3:

memoriae prodere sermonem alicujus,

to hand down to posterity, to leave in writing, to record, id. de Or. 3, 4, 14:

memoriam prodere,

to transmit, hand down, Caes. B. G. 1, 13:

traditur memoriae, prolapsum cecidisse,

it is related, Liv. 5, 21:

vivit, vivetque per omnium saeculorum memoriam,

Vell. 2, 66, 5:

(oratio) ad memoriam laudum domesticarum,

Cic. Brut. 16, 62:

quorum memoria et recordatio jucunda sane fuit,

id. ib. 2, 9:

memoria immortalis,

Nep. Att. 11, 5.—

B.

Transf.

1.

The time of remembrance, period of recollection, time:

multi superiori memoriā se in alias civitates contulerunt,

in earlier times, Cic. Balb. 12, 28:

Cratippus princeps hujus memoriae philosophorum,

in our time, at the present time, id. Off. 3, 2, 5:

quod persaepe et nostrā, et patrum memoriā acci dit,

id. Font. 7, 13:

usque ad nostram memoriam,

id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54:

quod in omni memoriā est omnino inauditum,

id. Vatin. 14, 33:

post hominum memoriam,

since the memory of man, id. Cat. 1, 7, 16:

paulo supra hanc memoriam,

a little before this, a short time since, Caes. B. G. 6, 19.—

2.

An historical account, relation, narration:

liber, quo iste omnium rerum memoriam breviter complexus est,

Cic. Brut. 3, 14:

de Magonis interitu duplex memoria prodita est,

Nep. Hann. 8, 2:

memoriam vitae prosā oratione composuit,

Suet. Claud. 1 fin. —

b.

Concr., a written account, narrative, memoir:

quispiam ex his, qui se ad litteras memoriasque veteres dediderat,

Gell. 2, 21, 6:

in veteribus memoriis scriptum legimus,

id. 4, 6, 1; 7, 8, 1:

sine ullā pristini auctoris memoriā,

Suet. Dom. 5.—

c.

(Eccl. Lat.) A monument, esp. a Christian church as a memorial of a saint or monument of a martyr:

in memoriā Cypriani manere,

Aug. Conf 5, 8, 3: memoriae martyrum templis deorum succedunt, id. Civ. Dei, 26, 5;

22, 8, 11 and 12 al.: memoriam sibi et suis com parare,

Inscr. Grut. 827, 8.—

III.

Personified, the goddess of memory, = Mnemosyne, Afran. ap. Gell. 13, 8, 3:

Jovis (filias, ex memoria uxore,

Arn. 3, c. 37.