mora

1.

mŏra, ae, f. [Sanscr. smar, remember; Gr. root mer-, mar-; mermêra, merimna, care; martur, witness; cf. memor, memoria; perh. mellein], a delay.

I.

Lit.

A.

In gen.:

tarditas sententiarum, moraque rerum,

Cic. Fam. 10, 22, 2:

mora et sustentatio,

id. Inv. 2, 49, 146:

mora aut tergiversatio,

id. Mil. 20, 54:

moram rei alicui inferre,

to delay, put off, defer, hinder, id. Inv. 1, 9, 12:

moram ad insequendum intulit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 75:

afferre,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 64, § 165:

facere delectui,

Liv. 6, 31:

facere dimicandi,

id. 21, 32:

facere creditoribus,

to put off payment, Cic. Sull. 20, 58:

moras nectere,

Sen. Ira, 3, 39, 2:

offerre,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 17:

obicere,

id. Poen. 1, 3, 37:

trahere,

to delay, Verg. A. 10, 888:

moliri,

to cause delay, id. ib. 1, 414:

producere malo alicui,

to defer, Ter. And. 3, 5, 9:

tibi moram dictis creas,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 168:

rumpere,

Verg. A. 4, 569:

pellere,

Ov. M. 10, 659:

corripere,

id. ib. 9, 282:

removere,

to make haste, not to delay, Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 37:

moram interponere,

to interpose delay, Cic. Phil. 10, 1, 1: habeo paululum morae, dum, etc., Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 12, 2:

Caesar nihil in morā habuit, quominus perveniret,

delayed not, Vell. 2, 51, 2: saltus Castulonensis nequaquam tantā in morā est, does not hinder, Asin. Pall. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 1:

nec mora ulla est, quin eam uxorem ducam,

I will without delay, Ter. And. 5, 6, 7;

so freq. in the poets: nec (haud) mora,

Prop. 4 (5), 4, 82; Ov. M. 1, 717; 6, 53; Verg. G. 4, 548; id. A. 5, 140:

ne in morā illi sis,

hinder, keep waiting, Ter. And. 3, 1, 9:

per me nulla est mora,

there is no delay on my part, id. ib. 3, 4, 14:

in me mora non erit ulla,

Verg. E. 3, 52; Ter. And. 2, 5, 9: nulla igitur mora per Novium... quin, etc., it is no fault of Novius, etc., Juv. 12, 111:

nam si alia memorem, mora est,

it will detain us too long, Plaut. Capt. 4, 3, 6: inter [p. 1164] moras consul mittit senatum, in the meantime, meanwhile, Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 20:

inter aliquas moras,

Suet. Aug. 78; id. Ner. 49: sine mora, without delay, at once:

quod ego, ut debui, sine mora feci,

Cic. Ep. ad Erut. 1, 18, 1, id. Fam. 10, 18, 4:

moram certaminis hosti exemit,

i. e. hastened it on, Liv. 9, 43.—

B.

In partic., of speech, a stopping or pause:

morae, respirationesque,

Cic. Or. 16, 53:

oratio non ictu magis quam morā imprimitur,

Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 3. —

II.

Transf.

A.

Any thing that retards or delays, a hinderance:

ne morae illi sim,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 81:

ne morae meis nuptiis egomet siem (al. mora),

hinder, Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 78:

hoc mihi morae est,

id. ib. 5, 7, 5:

restituendae Romanis Capuae mora atque impedimentum es,

Liv. 23, 9, 11:

Abas pugnae nodusque moraque,

Verg. A. 10, 428:

loricaeque moras et pectus perforat ingens,

id. ib. 10, 485; cf. Flor. 4, 9, 1.—

B.

Mora temporis, a space of time, Ov. M. 9, 134:

an tibi notitiam mora temporis eripit horum?

id. P. 2, 10, 5:

moram temporis quaerere dum Hannibal in Africam traiceret,

Liv. 30, 16, 14; so,

temporaria,

Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 114.

2.

mŏra, ae, f., the fish echeneis, Plin. 32, 1, 1, § 6 (al. remora).

3.

mŏra, ae, f., = mora, a division of the Spartan army, consisting of three, five, or seven hundred men:

moram Lacedaemoniorum intercepit,

the Spartan army, Nep. Iphicr. 2, 3 (but in Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37, the best reading is agmen, v. Klotz ad h. l.).