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fērĭae, ārum (in the sing.: FERIA a feriendis victimis vocata, Paul. ex Fest. p. 85, 12 Müll.), f. [for fes-iae, same root with festus],
- I. days of rest, holidays, festivals (syn. justitium), a great number of which, both private and public, were kept by the Romans; the latter being either stativae, fixed, regularly recurring on certain days; or conceptivae, movable, settled every year anew; or imperativae, temporary, ordained by the consuls on account of some particular occurrence; or, lastly, the Nundinae, Macr. S. 1, 16; Varr. L. L. 6, § 13 Müll.; Cic. Leg. 2, 12, 29; 2, 22, 57; Plaut. Capt. 4, 1, 3 et saep.: feriae Domini, Vulg. Levit. 23, 2: feriae denicales, Latinae, novendiales, privatae, etc., v. sub h. vv.
- II. Transf., rest, peace, leisure: indutiae sunt belli feriae, Varr. ap. Gell. 1, 25, 2: praestare Hesperiae longas ferias, i. e. peace, Hor. C. 4, 5, 37.
Comically: venter gutturque resident esuriales ferias, keep hunger-holidays, i. e. fast, Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 8: tuas possidebit mulier faxo ferias, shall fill, amuse your leisure, id. Ep. 3, 4, 37.
Prov.: sine ullis feriis, i. e. without rest, incessantly, Arn. 1, 9; cf.: feriis caret necessitas, necessity has no law, Pall. 1, 6, 7.
Sing. (eccl. Lat.): feria, a week-day, Tert. Jejun. 2.
fērĭātĭcus, a, um, adj. [ferior], free from labor, holiday-: dies, a holiday, Dig. 2, 12, 2.
fērĭātus, a, um, P. a., from ferior.
fērĭor, ātus, 1, v. dep. n. [feriac], to rest from work, to keep holiday (in the verb. finit. ante- and post-class. and very rare for ferias habere, agere; but class. in the P. a.): Achilles ab armis feriabatur, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 7: non fuerunt feriati, Varr. L. L. 6, § 13 Müll.: male feriatos Troas, keeping festival at an unseasonable time, Hor. C. 4, 6, 14: animus feriaturus, Sid. Ep. 9, 11 med.: sabatho etiam a bonis operibus, Ambros. in Luc. 5, § 39.
Hence, fē-rĭātus, a, um, P. a., keeping holiday, unoccupied, disengaged, at leisure, idle.
- A. Prop.: familia, Varr. R. R. 1, 16, 4: Deum sic feriatum volumus cessatione torpere, Cic. N. D. 1, 37, 102: feriatus ne sis, be not idle, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 62: voluntate sua feriati a negotiis publicis, Cic. de Or. 3, 15, 58: feriatus ab iis studiis, in quae, etc., Trebon. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 16, 2: meditatio argutiarum, in qua id genus homines consenescunt male feriati quos philosophos vulgus esse putat, with leisure ill employed, Gell. 10, 22, 24: toga feriata, long disused, Plin. Ep. 7, 3, 2; cf. id. ib. 5, 6, 45.
- B. Transf., of inanim. and abstr. things (very rare): machaera feriata, unemployed, idle, Plaut. Mil. 1, 7; so, toga, Plin. Ep. 7, 3, 2: freta, quiet, still, Prud. στεφ. 6, 156: dies feriatus, a holiday, Plin. Ep. 3, 14, 6; 10, 24, 3; Dig. 2, 12, 2; 6; 9.