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cassus , a, um, adj.,
I.empty, void, hollow.
I. Prop. (syn.: inanis, vacuus; mostly poet.).
A. Absol.: “nux,Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 137; Hor. S. 2, 5, 36: “glans,Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 37: “canna,unfruitful, Ov. F. 6, 406: “granum inane cassumque,Plin. 18, 17, 45, § 161: anulus, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15. 6.—Subst.: palearum cassa, Sol. c. 52 fin.
B. Expressing that of which the subject is empty, etc., wanting, devoid of, deprived of, without.
1. With abl.: sanguine cassa (cochlea), bloodless, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64, 133; so, “virgo dote cassa,Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 14: “lumine aër,Lucr. 4, 368: “lumine corpus,id. 5, 719; 5, 757: “animā corpus,id. 3, 562.—Poet.: “cassus lumine (= vitā),deprived of life, dead, Verg. A. 2, 85; imitated by Stat. Th. 2, 15; “and in like sense aethere cassus,Verg. A. 11, 104: “simulacra cassa sensu,Lucr. 4, 127.—
2. With gen.: “cassus luminis ensis,Cic. Arat. 369.—
3. With ab: “elementum ab omnibus,App. de Deo Socr. p. 46.—
II. Trop., vain, empty, useless, futile, fruitless (syn.: inanis, irritus): cassum quiddam et inani vocis sono decoratum, * Cic. Tusc. 5, 41, 119; so, “copia verborum,Lucr. 4, 511: “vota,Verg. A. 12, 780: “fertilitas terrae,Ov. M. 5, 482: “fraus,Luc. 5, 130: “consilia,Sen. Troad. 570: “viae,vain, profitless, Stat. Th. 11, 449: “labores,Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 6: “manus,without effect, Stat. Th. 9, 770: “augur futuri,false, erring, id. ib. 9, 629: “omen,id. ib. 5, 318.—Subst.: cassa , ōrum, n., empty things: “palearum,Sol. 52; “esp. of speech: cassa memorare,to talk idly, Plaut. Cist. 4, 1, 16; so, “cassa habebantur quae, etc.,were thought vain, futile, Tac. H. 3, 55; Sen. Herc. Oet. 352.— Esp. freq. in poetry (in prose, but not in Cic.), in cassum, or, in one word, incas-sum , adverb., in vain, uselessly, to no purpose: “ex multis omnia in cassum cadunt,Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 147; cf. Lucr. 2, 1165: temere, in cassum frustraque, without aim or purpose, fortuitously, id. 2, 1060; so id. 5, 1002; 5, 1430: “furere,Verg. G. 3, 100: “longos ciebat Incassum fletus,id. A. 3, 345: “tot incassum fusos patiere labores?id. ib. 7, 421.—In prose: “quae profecto incassum agebantur,Sall. H. 3, 61, 11 Dietsch: “vana incassum jactare tela,Liv. 10, 29, 2: “incassum missae preces,id. 2, 49, 8: “aliquid incassum disserere,Tac. A. 1, 4; Just. 11, 15, 6; Lact. 6, 9, 17; Sen. Brev. Vit. 11, 1: frustra in cassumque. Mart. Cap. 1, § 10.— Also cassum : quid cassum times? Sen. Herc. Oet. 353; cf.: μάτην, frustra, nequicquam, cassum, Gloss. Cyrill.
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