parens

1.

pārens, entis, Part. and P. a., from pareo.

2.

părens, entis, m. and f. ( gen. plur. parentum and parentium, cf. Varr. L. L. 8, § 66 Müll.; Charis. p. 111 P.; Diom. p. 282 ib.:

masculino genere parentem appellabant antiqui etiam matrem,

Fest. p. 151 Müll.; so,

Gracchus,

Charis. p. 79 P.) [pario], a procreator, a father or mother, a parent; most freq. in the plur., parents.

1.

Lit.: SI PARENTEM PVER VERBERIT... DIVIS PARENTVM SACER ESTO, Lex regia: qui parentem aut hospitem Necasset, Enn. ap. Non. 153, 29 (Trag. v. 239 Vahl.):

parens tuus,

Cic. Sull. 29, 81; Hor. A. P. 313:

illum et parentis crediderim sui Fregisse cervicem,

id. C. 2, 13, 5:

alma parens Idaea deum,

Verg. A. 10, 252:

an tu reris eum (Orestem) occisā insanuisse parente? etc.,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 134:

imperator, qui sibi parentis loco esset,

i. e. entitled to the reverence due a father, Liv. 4, 42, 8; cf.:

(Lolliam) privignis parentis loco futuram,

be a mother to them, Tac. A. 12. 2:

parentis eam (Darii matrem) loco diligi colique,

Curt. 5, 3, 11:

per speciem honorandae parentis,

Liv. 8, [p. 1303] 22, 2; 26, 49, 13.—In plur.:

quae (caritas) est inter natos et parentes,

Cic. Lael. 8, 27:

parentes cum liberis,

Caes. B. G. 5, 14, 4; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 42, § 108:

opus a parentibus majoribusque meis relictum,

id. Rep. 1, 22, 35:

in parentum loco,

id. Planc. 11, 28.— Of animals, a sire or dam, Varr. R. R. 3, 7 fin.:

gravida stans,

Plin. 8, 42, 66, § 165; Cels. 6, 6, 39; Stat. Th. 10, 231.—

b.

Transf.

(α).

Grandparents, and, in gen., progenitors, ancestors (parentes, like patres, is used of the generations immediately preceding the present; all ancestors more remote than the grandparents are called majores, Seyffert ad Cic. Lael. p. 260):

Siciliam tantum ac Sardiniam parentibus nostris ereptas nostrā virtute recuperaturi essemus,

Liv. 21, 43, 6:

appellatione parentis non tantum pater, sed etiam avus et proavus, et deinceps omnes superiores continentur: sed et mater et avia et proavia,

Dig. 50, 16, 51; cf. ib. 2, 4, 4; Fest. p. 221 Müll.; Cic. Inv. 1, 54, 103; Verg. A. 9, 3; 10, 76; 619:

si patriam, parentes, antiqua mallent quam dominos et colonias novas,

Tac. A. 1, 59; Dig. 23, 3, 5.—

(β).

Relations, kinsfolk, kindred (rare and not ante-Aug.):

solent rei capitis adhibere vobis parentes. Duos ego fratres nuper amisi,

Curt. 6, 10, 30; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 67; Capitol. M. Aur. 5; Flor. 3, 18, 5.—(Whether we are to take it in this sense in Liv 34, 32, 12, is doubtful.) —

2.

Trop., a father, founder, inventor, author (class.):

me quem nonnulli conservatorem istius urbis, quem parentem esse dixerunt,

Cic. Att. 9, 10, 3:

operum parens effectorque,

id. Univ. 11:

Socrates parens philosophiae,

id. Fin. 2, 1, 1; cf.:

Tullius facundiae Latiarumque litterarum parens,

Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 117; and:

Homerus primus doctrinarum et antiquitatis parens,

id. 25, 2, 5, § 11:

(Mercurius) curvae lyrae parens,

Hor. C. 1, 10, 6:

earum (rerum) parens est educatrixque sapientia,

Cic. Leg. 1, 24, 62.—As an honorary appellation:

quid prius dicam solitis Parentis Laudibus,

i. e. Jupiter, Hor. C. 1, 12, 13:

Latius,

i. e. Domitian, Stat. S. 1, 2, 178.