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impar (inp- ), ăris (
I.abl. sing. impari; “but, metri grat., impare,Verg. E. 8, 75; id. Cir. 372; gen. plur. imparium, Cels. 3, 4 al.), adj. 2. in-par, uneven, unequal, dissimilar in number or quality (cf. dispar, dissimilis).
I. In gen. (class.): “stellarum numerus par an impar sit, nescitur,Cic. Ac. 2, 10, 32: “congressus impari numero,Caes. B. C. 1, 40, 6; 1, 47, 3: “numero deus impare gaudet,Verg. E. 8, 75 Serv.; cf.: imparem numerum antiqui prosperiorem hominibus esse crediderunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 109 Müll.: “(sonus) intervallis conjunctus imparibus,Cic. Rep. 6, 18; cf. Lucr. 5, 683: “qui Musas amat impares,Hor. C. 3, 19, 13: “imparibus carmina facta modis,” i. e. hexameters and pentameters, Ov. Tr. 2, 220: impares tibiae numero foraminum discretae, Paul. ex Fest. p. 109 Müll.: “ludere par impar,even or odd, Hor. S. 2, 3, 248: mensae erat pes tertius impar: “Testa parem fecit,Ov. M. 8, 662: “formae atque animi,Hor. C. 1, 33, 11; cf. “formae,id. S. 2, 2, 30: “si toga dissidet impar, Rides,uneven, awry, id. Ep. 1, 1, 96: “acer coloribus impar,” i. e. partycolored, Ov. M. 10, 95: “quos quidem ego ambo unice diligo: sed in Marco benevolentia impari,Cic. Fam. 5, 8, 4: “leges,Quint. 7, 7, 6: “ad exhortationem praecipue valent imparia,id. 5, 11, 10.—
(β). With dat.: “nil fuit umquam sic impar sibi,Hor. S. 1, 3, 19.—
II. In partic. (with the accessory notion of smaller, inferior), unequal to, not a match for, unable to cope with a thing; inferior, weaker (so perh. not till after the Aug. period).
(γ). Absol.: “juncta impari,to an inferior in rank, Liv. 6, 34, 9; cf.: “pater consularis, avus praetorius, maternum genus impar,Tac. H. 2, 50: “Julia Tiberium spreverat ut imparem,not her equal in birth, id. ib. 1, 53: “simul odiorum invidiaeque erga Fabium Valentem admonebatur, ut inpar apud Vitellium gratiam viresque apud novum principem pararet,id. ib. 2, 99.—
C. Poet. transf., unequal, i. e. beyond one's strength, which one is not a match for: “judice sub Tmolo certamen venit ad impar,to the unequal strife, Ov. M. 11, 156: “pugna,Verg. A. 12, 216; cf.: “imparibus certare,Hor. Epod. 11, 18.—
(β). With inf.: “magnum opus et tangi nisi cura vincitur impar,Grat. Cyn. 61.—* Adv.: impărĭter , unequally: “versibus impariter junctis,” i. e. in hexameters and pentameters, Hor. A. P. 75.
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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 5.8.4
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 10.95
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.662
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 12.216
    • Suetonius, Domitianus, 10
    • Suetonius, Tiberius, 23
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    • Horace, Satires, 1.3.19
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    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 75
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.156
    • Tacitus, Annales, 15.57
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 1.74
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    • Suetonius, Otho, 9
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    • Ovid, Fasti, 4
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