I.everlasting, ever-during, perpetual, continual, imperishable, eternal, sempiternal (cf. aeternus init.; “very freq. and class.): fragile corpus animus sempiternus movet, etc.,” Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26; cf. id. N. D. 3, 12, 29: “immortalis memoria et sempiterna,” Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 15: “deorum vita sempiterna,” Ter. And. 5, 5, 3; cf.: “aevo sempiterno frui,” Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13: “ignes,” id. ib. 6, 15, 15; cf.: “cursus stellarum,” id. ib. 6, 17, 17: “gratias agere sempiternas,” Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 84: “amicus,” id. Most. 1, 3, 90; id. Pers. 1, 1, 36; cf.: “verae amicitiae,” Cic. Lael. 9, 32; so, “hiemes,” Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 4: “ignis Vestae,” Cic. Cat. 4, 9, 18: “documentum Persarum sceleris,” id. Rep. 3, 9, 15: “memoria amicitiae nostrae,” id. Lael. 4, 15: “odia,” id. ib. 10, 35: “consilium senatus,” id. Sest. 65, 137: “potentia,” Tac. A. 3, 30 et saep.: “nihil umquam nisi sempiternum et divinum animo volutare,” Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 28: “nihil nisi sempiternum spectare,” id. Rab. Perd. 10, 29: “in sempiternum,” forever, Vulg. Deut. 5, 29 et saep. —Adv., in three forms (not in Cic.), always, forever, perpetually. *
a. sempĭ-ternum , Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 26.—
b. sem-pĭternō , Cato ap. Charis. p. 194 P.: “sempiterno permanet ea materia,” Vitr. 1, 5; 9, 1, 2; Sol. 35, 5.—
