sine

sĭne (old form sē or sēd; v. the foll.), prep. with abl. [si and ne; si, the demonstrative instrumental, and the negative ne;

hence, nesi was also found,

Fest. p. 165; cf. Rib. Beiträge, p. 15; Corss. Ausspr. 1, 201; 1, 778].

I.

Without.

A.

Form se (sed):

socordia compositum videtur ex se, quod est sine, et corde, Fest. pp. 292 and 293 Müll.: sed pro sine inveniuntur posuisse antiqui,

id. p. 336 ib.: SI PLVS MINVSVE SECVERVNT SE FRAVDE ESTO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 49: IM CVM ILLO SEPELIREI VRIVE SE FRAVDE ESTO, id. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 24, 60:

EAM PECVNIAM EIS SED FRAVDE SVA SOLVITO,

Inscr. Grut. 509, 20.—

B.

Form sine:

tu sine pennis vola,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 180:

ne quoquam pedem Efferat sine custode,

id. Capt. 2, 3, 97:

ut (urbs) sine regibus sit,

Cic. Rep. 1, 37, 58:

sine ullo domino,

id. ib. 1, 43, 67:

sine ullo certo exemplari formāque rei publicae,

id. ib. 2, 11, 22:

sine ullius populi exemplo,

id. ib. 2, 39, 66: sine ullā dubitatione; v. dubitatio;

for which, less freq.: sine omni, etc.,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 38; 4, 1, 20:

sine omni malitiā,

id. Bacch. 5, 2, 13; Ter. And. 2, 3, 17; Cic. de Or. 2, 1, 5; Ov. Tr. 4, 8, 33: sine dubio;

v. dubius: pol si istuc faxis, haud sine poenā feceris,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 37; cf.:

non sine magnā spe,

Caes. B. G. 1, 44:

non sine conscio Surgit marito,

Hor. C. 3, 6, 29; cf.:

non sine floribus,

id. ib. 3, 13, 2:

non sine multis lacrimis,

id. ib. 3, 7, 7:

non sine fistulā,

id. ib. 4, 1, 24.—In poets often with a noun instead of an adjective or adverb; as, sine sanguine, bloodless; sine pondere, weightless; sine fine, endless; sine nomine, nameless; sine sidere, starless; sine viribus, powerless, feeble, etc.:

ignea vis et sine pondere caeli,

Ov. M. 1, 26; so id. ib. 2, 537; 3, 417; 5, 249; 7, 306; 7, 275; 7, 830; 8, 518; 11, 429; 15, 120; Verg. A. 3, 204; 5, 694; 6, 534; Hor. C. 4, 14, 32 al.—Hence, poet., sine pondere, like a noun in dat., for rebus sine pondere:

pugnabant mollia cum duris, sine pondere habentia pondus,

Ov. M. 1, 20.—Several times repeated:

si sine vi et sine bello velint rapta tradere,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 51; cf.:

sine praesidio et sine pecuniā,

Cic. Att. 8, 3, 5; and more freq. without et:

eam confeci sine molestiā, Sine sumptu, sine dispendio,

Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 6 and 7:

hominem sine re, sine fide, sine spe, sine sede, sine fortunis, ore, linguā, manu, vita omni inquinatum,

Cic. Cael. 32, 78:

se solos sine vulnere, sine ferro, sine acie victos,

Liv. 9, 5; v. Drak. ad Liv. 7, 2, 4.—With part. and subst. (rare):

sine causā antecedente,

Cic. Fat. 19, 43:

sine externā et antecedente causā,

id. ib. 11, 24:

sine viso antecedente,

id. ib. 19, 44:

sine inpensā operā,

Liv. 5, 4, 4; 7, 12, 11; 45, 25, 7; cf.:

sine rest tutā potestate,

id. 3, 52, 2 MSS. et Madv. (Weissenb. ex conj.: quā sibi non restitutā).—In epistolary style once without a case, referring to a preceding noun:

age jam, cum fratre an sine?

Cic. Att. 8, 3, 5.—With gerund (very rare):

nec sine canendo tibicines dicti,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 75 Müll.—Taking the place of a clause:

armantur senes aut pueri, et numerus militum sine exercitūs robore expletur,

i. e. without acquiring, Just. 5, 6, 3:

exercitus ejus sine noxā discurrit,

id. 12, 7, 8.—By the poets sometimes put after its case:

flammā sine thura liquescere,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 99:

vitiis nemo sine nascitur,

id. ib. 1, 3, 68.—

II.

In composition, se, or before a vowel, sed, denotes a going or taking aside, a departing, separating, etc.: secedo, secerno, segrego; seditio.