sodalis

sŏdālis, is (abl., regularly, sodali;

sodale,

Mart. 1, 86, 5; Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 6), comm. [cf. Sanscr. svadhā, will, power; Gr. ethos, custom; v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 251].

I.

In gen., a mate, fellow, intimate, comrade, crony, boon-companion, etc. (freq.and class.; a favorite word with Plautus; cf.:

socius, familiaris): tuos amicus et sodalis,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 7:

hic sodalis tuos amicus optimus,

id. Cas. 3, 3, 18; so (with amicus) id. Bacch. 3, 3, 71:

sodalem me esse scis gnato tuo,

id. Most. 5, 2, 32:

sex sodales repperi, Vitam, amicitiam, etc.,

id. Merc. 5, 2, 4:

quid enim aut illo fidelius amico aut sodale jucundius?

Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 6:

si frater aut sodalis esset,

Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 74: sodalis et familiarissimus Dolabellae, Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 14, 7:

primum habui semper sodales. Sodalitates autem me quaestore constitutae sunt sacris Idaeis... epulabar igitur cum sodalibus omnino modice, etc. (shortly after: coetu amicorum),

Cic. Sen. 13, 45:

popularis et sodalis,

id. Ac. 2, 37, 118:

meus sodalis,

id. de Or. 2, 49, 200:

adulescentes aliquot, aequales sodalesque: adulescentium Tarquiniorum,

Liv. 2, 3:

in urbem reversus sodalibus legi,

Plin. Ep. 7, 4, 7:

Pompei meorum prime sodalium,

Hor. C. 2, 7, 5:

gaudentem parvisque sodalibus et lare certo Et ludis,

id. Ep. 1, 7, 58:

sodalis istius (Verris) in hoc morbo et cupiditate,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 36, § 91:

veterem tutare sodalem,

Ov. P. 2, 4, 33:

O jucunde sodalis,

id. ib. 1, 8, 25:

dilectos inter sors prima sodalis,

id. Tr. 4, 5, 1.—

b.

In the poets, adject.:

turba sodalis,

the band of friends, Ov. R. Am. 586.—Of things:

Hebrus,

Hor. C. 1, 25, 19:

cratera,

id. ib. 3, 18, 6.—

II.

In partic.

A.

A fellow or member of a corporation, society, fraternity, college, etc.: sodales sunt, qui ejusdem collegii sunt, quam Graeci hetairian vocant, Dig. 47, 12, 4.—Of the members of a college of priests:

sodales in Lupercis,

Cic. Cael. 11, 26:

Sodales Titii,

Tac. A. 1, 54:

Augustales,

id. ib. 3, 64; Suet. Claud. 6; id. Galb. 8; Inscr. Orell. 2364 sq.; 1588; 1593; 1611 et saep.—

B.

In a bad sense, a participator, accomplice in unlawful secret associations (esp. for buying votes, plotting against the State, etc.):

quos tu si sodales vocas, officiosam amicitiam nomine inquinas criminoso,

Cic. Planc. 19, 46:

tu in illis es decem sodalibus: Te in exsilium ire hinc oportet,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 12.—

2.

A gallant, Mart. 9, 3, 8; Hier. adv. Juv. 1, 48.