I.a delay.
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: “tarditas sententiarum, moraque rerum,” Cic. Fam. 10, 22, 2: “mora et sustentatio,” id. Inv. 2, 49, 146: “mora aut tergiversatio,” id. Mil. 20, 54: “moram rei alicui inferre,” to delay, put off, defer, hinder, id. Inv. 1, 9, 12: “moram ad insequendum intulit,” Caes. B. C. 3, 75: “afferre,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 64, § 165: “facere delectui,” Liv. 6, 31: “facere dimicandi,” id. 21, 32: “facere creditoribus,” to put off payment, Cic. Sull. 20, 58: “moras nectere,” Sen. Ira, 3, 39, 2: “offerre,” Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 17: “obicere,” id. Poen. 1, 3, 37: “trahere,” to delay, Verg. A. 10, 888: “moliri,” to cause delay, id. ib. 1, 414: “producere malo alicui,” to defer, Ter. And. 3, 5, 9: “tibi moram dictis creas,” Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 168: “rumpere,” Verg. A. 4, 569: “pellere,” Ov. M. 10, 659: “corripere,” id. ib. 9, 282: “removere,” to make haste, not to delay, Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 37: “moram interponere,” to interpose delay, Cic. Phil. 10, 1, 1: habeo paululum morae, dum, etc., Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 12, 2: “Caesar nihil in morā habuit, quominus perveniret,” delayed not, Vell. 2, 51, 2: saltus Castulonensis nequaquam tantā in morā est, does not hinder, Asin. Pall. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 1: “nec mora ulla est, quin eam uxorem ducam,” I will without delay, Ter. And. 5, 6, 7; “so freq. in the poets: nec (haud) mora,” Prop. 4 (5), 4, 82. Ov. M. 1, 717; 6, 53; Verg. G. 4, 548; id. A. 5, 140: “ne in morā illi sis,” hinder, keep waiting, Ter. And. 3, 1, 9: “per me nulla est mora,” there is no delay on my part, id. ib. 3, 4, 14: “in me mora non erit ulla,” Verg. E. 3, 52; Ter. And. 2, 5, 9: nulla igitur mora per Novium ... quin, etc., it is no fault of Novius, etc., Juv. 12, 111: “nam si alia memorem, mora est,” it will detain us too long, Plaut. Capt. 4, 3, 6: inter moras consul mittit senatum, in the meantime, meanwhile, Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 20: “inter aliquas moras,” Suet. Aug. 78; id. Ner. 49: sine mora, without delay, at once: “quod ego, ut debui, sine mora feci,” Cic. Ep. ad Erut. 1, 18, 1, id. Fam. 10, 18, 4: “moram certaminis hosti exemit,” i. e. hastened it on, Liv. 9, 43.—
B. In partic., of speech, a stopping or pause: “morae, respirationesque,” Cic. Or. 16, 53: “oratio non ictu magis quam morā imprimitur,” Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 3. —
II. Transf.
A. Any thing that retards or delays, a hinderance: “ne morae illi sim,” Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 81: “ne morae meis nuptiis egomet siem (al. mora),” hinder, Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 78: “hoc mihi morae est,” id. ib. 5, 7, 5: “restituendae Romanis Capuae mora atque impedimentum es,” Liv. 23, 9, 11: “Abas pugnae nodusque moraque,” Verg. A. 10, 428: “loricaeque moras et pectus perforat ingens,” id. ib. 10, 485; cf. Flor. 4, 9, 1.—
B. Mora temporis, a space of time, Ov. M. 9, 134: “an tibi notitiam mora temporis eripit horum?” id. P. 2, 10, 5: “moram temporis quaerere dum Hannibal in Africam traiceret,” Liv. 30, 16, 14; so, “temporaria,” Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 114.
