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cūra, ae, f. [caveo; cf. curo init.], care, solicitude, carefulness, thought, concern.

  1. I. Trouble (physical or mental), bestowed on something; solicitude, care, attention, pains (syn.: diligentia, opera, studium, labor, etc.; opp. neglegentia, etc.; v. the foll.; very freq. in every per. and species of composition).
    1. A. Lit.
      1. 1. In gen.
          1. (α) Ab. sol.: curantes magnā cum curā, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107: magnā cum curā ego illum curari volo, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 7; cf. id. ib. 5, 4, 9: in aliquā re curam ponere (just before: magnum studi um multamque operam, etc.), Cic. Off. 1, 6, 19: haec tam acrem curam diligentiamque desiderant, id. de Or. 3, 48, 184; so with diligentia, Quint. 10, 1, 86: si utrumque cum curā et studio fecerimus, id. 10, 7, 29: aliquid cum curā exsequi, Liv. 39, 41, 6: plus laboris et curae, Quint. 8, prooem. § 13; so with labor, id. 2, 2, 10 al.: cura et industria, Suet. Gram. 21: ut in rem publicam omni cogitatione curāque incumberes, Cic. Fam. 10, 1, 2; so with cogitatio, id. ib. 10, 3, 3; id. de Or. 2, 44, 186; and in plur., id. Off. 2, 1, 2; opp. neglegentia, Quint. 11, 3, 137; 11, 3, 19: non naturam defecisse sed curam, id. 1, 1, 2; so opp. natura, id. 1, 2, 4; 2, 8, 5: omni curā vestigare, Curt. 4, 6, 5: omni curā in aliquid incumbere, Cic. Fam. 12, 24, 2: omnem curam in siderum cognitione ponere, id. Div. 1, 42, 93: cura et meditatio accessit, Tac. Or. 16; cf. id. Agr. 10 et saep.: eo majore curā illam (rem publicam) administrari, Sall. J. 85, 2: curam praestare, Suet. Tib. 18: in re unā consumere curam (for which, in foll. verse, laborare), Hor. S. 2, 4, 48 et saep.: esse cura alicui, to be an object of one’s care: cura pii diis sunt et qui coluere coluntur, Ov. M. 8, 724.
          2. (β) With gen., care, attention, management, administration, charge, a guardianship, concern for a person or thing, etc.: difficilis rerum alienarum, Cic. Off. 1, 9, 30; cf.: rerum domesticarum, Quint. 3, 3, 9: maxima belli, Cic. Att. 6, 5, 3: agrorum, Quint. 12, 1, 6: corporis, id. 1, 11, 15: capillorum, Suet. Dom. 18: funeris sui, id. Tib. 51 et saep.: deorum, Liv. 6, 41, 9: civium, id. 6, 15, 11: nepotum, Quint. 4, prooem. § 2: magni Caesaris, Hor. C. 1, 12, 50; Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 37; Sen. Ep. 14, 2 et saep.
          3. (γ) With de and abl.: omnis cura de re publicā, Cic. Brut. 3, 10: quocum mihi conjuncta cura de publicā re et privatā fuit, id. Lael. 4, 15: si qua de Pompejo nostro tuendo … cura te attigit, id. Att. 9, 11, 2, A: gratissima est mihi tua cura de illo mandato, id. ib. 5, 4, 1.
            So with de: curam habere, agere, etc.: de vitā communi omnium curam habere, Vitr. 1, 2, init.: Romani tamquam de Samnitibus non de se curam agerent, Liv. 8, 3, 8.
          4. (δ) With pro: omnium non tam pro Aetolis cura erat, quam ne, etc., Liv. 27, 30, 5: curam habere pro aliquo, Veg. 2, 20: curam pro nobis hospitis, uxor, agas, Ov. H. 15 (16), 302.
            (ε) Curae (alicui) esse, to be an object of care or attention; to have a care for, take care of, attend to, to be anxious about, bestow pains upon, etc.: Caesar pollicitus est, sibi eam rem curae futuram, etc., Caes. B. G. 1, 33: haec sibi esse curae, id. ib. 1, 40: rati sese diis curae esse, Sall. J. 75, 9: cui salus mea fuit curae, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 22; 15, 2, 8; Quint. 3, 8, 45 et saep.: ea tantae mihi curae sunt, ut, etc., Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 24: pollicetur sibi magnae curae fore, ut omnia restituerentur, id. Verr. 2, 4, 33, § 73; cf.: si tibi curae Quantae conveniat, Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 30: ipsis doctoribus hoc esse curae velim, ut, etc., Quint. 2, 4, 5: dumque amor est curae, Ov. M. 2, 683: ceterum magis vis morbi ingravescens curae erat, terroresque ac prodigia, Liv. 4, 21, 5: ceterum eo tempore minus ea bella … curae patribus erant, quam expectatio, etc., id. 35, 23, 1: in eorum periculis non secus absentes quam praesentes amicos Attico esse curae, Nep. Att. 12, 5.
            With a subject-clause: nonnulli, quibus non fuit curae caelestem inveterare aquam, etc., Col. 12, 12, 3; Quint. 7, 1, 4; 9, 3, 74: eligere modo curae sit, id. 10, 1, 31: mihi erit curae explorare provinciae voluntatem, Plin. Ep. 7, 10, 2.
            With de: de mandatis quod tibi curae fuit, est mihi gratum, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 8: sic recipiunt, Caesari … de augendā meā dignitate curae fore, Cic. Att. 11, 6, 3; cf. id. Fam. 10, 1, 1, and II. A. fin. infra: de ceteris senatui curae fore, Sall. J. 26, 1.
            In the same sense also, (ζ) Curae aliquid habere: cohortatus, ut petitionem suam curae haberent, Sall. C. 21 fin.; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 10; Quint. prooem. § 16: habebo itaque curae, ut te meliorem reddam, Sen. Ben. 1, 8, 2: ut ille … quid ageret, curae sibi haberet certiorem facere Atticum, Nep. Att. 20, 4.
            (η) Cura est, with subject-clause, solicitude, care, anxiety to do any thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): curaque finitimos vincere major erat, Ov. F. 1, 30: talis amor teneat, nec sit mihi cura mederi, Verg. E. 8, 89: cura comere capillum fuit, Sen. Q. N. 1, 17, 7.
      2. 2. In partic., t. t.
        1. a. In political lang. (esp. of the post-Aug. per.), the management of state affairs, administration, charge, oversight, command, office: magistratus et imperia, postremo omnis cura rerum publicarum minime mihi hac tempestate cupiunda videntur, Sall. J. 3, 1; so, legionis armandae, Tac. H. 1, 80: aerarii, Suet. Aug. 36: annonae, id. Tib. 8: operum publicorum, viarum, aquarum, etc. (preceded by nova officia), id. Aug. 37 al.
        2. b. In the jurists, the management of business for a minor, guardianship, trusteeship (for the more usu. curatio), Dig. 3, 1, 1; 5, 1, 19 et saep.
        3. c. In medic., medical attendance, healing (for curatio), cure: aquae, quae sub cutem est, Cels. 2, 10; Vell. 2, 123; Sil. 6, 551 Drak. et saep.
          Plur.: curae aegrescentium, Macr. S. 7, 4, 6.
          Hence, poet.: illa fuit lacrimis ultima cura meis (sc. somnus), Prop. 1, 3, 46; cf. Cic. Fam. 5, 16, 5.
        4. d. In agriculture, care, culture, rearing: Pelusiacae lentis, Verg. G. 1, 228: boum, id. ib. 1, 3.
    2. B. Meton. (abstr. pro concr.).
      1. 1. Like the Gr. μελέτη, a written work, writing (several times in Tac.; elsewhere rare): quorum in manus cura nostra venerit, Tac. A. 4, 11; id. Or. 3; Ov. P. 4, 16, 39.
        In plur., Tac. A. 3, 24.
      2. 2. An attendant, guardian, overseer (very rare): tertius immundae cura fidelis harae, i. e. the swine-herd Eumæus, Ov. H. 1, 104: praetorii, Treb. Claud. 14; cf. Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 45; 2, 1.
  2. II. Anxiety, solicitude, concern, disquiet, trouble, grief, sorrow; syn.: sollicitudo, metus, etc.; cf. φροντίς (very freq. in every per. and species of composition).
    1. A. In gen.: si quid ego adjuro curamve levasso, quae nunc te coquit, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 1, 1: animus lassus, curā confectus, Ter. And. 2, 1, 4: cottidianā curā angere ani mum, id. Phorm. 1, 3, 8: curae metusque, Cic. Div. 2, 72, 150: cura et sollicitudo. id. Att. 15, 14, 3; Quint. 8, prooem. § 20; 11, 1, 44 et saep.: curas cordis manis, Lucr. 3, 116: acres cuppedinis, id. 5, 46: gravi saucia curā (Dido), Verg. A. 4, 1: atra, Hor C. 3, 1, 40: edaces, id. ib. 2, 11, 18: vitiosa, id. ib. 2, 16, 22: sine curā esse, Cic. Att. 12, 6, 4; 15, 12, 2: quid facerem, curā cruciabar miser, Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 23: cura est, negoti quid sit aut quid nuntiet, I am anxious, my concern is, id. ib. 1, 2, 10; cf.: amica mea quid agat, Cura est, ut valeat, id. Stich. 5, 2, 4: mihi maximae curae est, non de meā quidem vitā, sed me patria sollicitat, etc., Cic. Fam. 10, 1, 1.
      With pro: quam pro me curam geris, Verg. A. 12, 48.
      With in: nullā in posterum curā, Tac. H. 3, 55.
      Plur.: cur eam rem tam studiose curas, quae tibi multas dabit curas, Auct. Her. 4, 14, 21: at tibi curarum milia quanta dabit! Prop. 1, 5, 10.
    2. B. In partic., the care, pain, or anxiety of love, love (poet.): crescit enim assidue spectando cura puellae, Prop. 3 (4), 21, 3; cf. Ov. R. Am. 311: tua sub nostro pectore cura, Prop. 1, 15, 31: et juvenum curas et libera vina referre, Hor. A. P. 85: hinc illaec primum Veneris dulcedinis in cor Stillavit gutta et successit frigida cura, chilling anxiety for one loved, Lucr. 4, 1060.
      Hence,
      1. 2. Meton. (abstr. pro concr.), the loved object, the mistress: tua cura, Lycoris, Verg. E. 10, 22; Prop. 2 (3), 25, 1; 2 (3), 34, 9; Hor. C. 2, 8, 8; Verg. Cir. 75; cf.: puer, mea maxima cura, id. A. 1, 678; 10, 132: cura deum, id. ib. 3, 46: raucae, tua cura, palumbes, id. E. 1, 57 Forbig. ad loc.

cūro (old orthog. COERO and COIRO, Inscr. Orell. 31; 560; 570: coeret, coerari, coerandi, Cic. Leg. 3, 4, 10), āvi, ātum, 1 (perf. subj. curassis, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 93; id. Ps. 1, 3, 3; id. Poen. 3, 1, 50; inf. pass. curarier, id. Capt. 3, 5, 79), v. a. [cura], to care for, take or have care of, to be solicitous for, to look or attend to, trouble one’s self about, etc. (very freq. in every period and species of composition); constr. with the acc., the acc. with the gerundive, the inf. with ut, ne, the simple subj., the dat. or absol.

  1. I. In gen.
      1. 1. Of persons.
          1. (α) With acc.: curare omnia studiosissime ac diligentissime, Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 7; cf.: diligenter praeceptum, Nep. Eum. 9, 5: magna di curant, parva neglegunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 167: negotia aliena, id. Top. 17, 66; Hor. S. 2, 3, 19: mandatum, Cic. Att. 5, 7 init.: cenam, Plaut. Rud. 4, 6, 11; cf. opsonium, id. Merc. 3, 3, 22: domum, to cleanse, Petr. 71, 7: vestimenta curare et polire, Dig. 47, 2, 12 pr.: funus, Ter. And. 1, 1, 81 Ruhnk.; cf. in this sense, cadaver, Suet. Ner. 49; and: Aegyptii jussi corpus Alexandri suo more curare, Curt. 10, 10, 13; in other connections, curare corpus means to nourish, take care of one’s self, to refresh, invigorate one’s self, Lucr. 2, 31; 5, 937: nunc corpora curare tempus est, Liv. 21, 54, 2; 3, 2, 10; 26, 48, 3; Curt. 3, 8, 22 al.; in the same sense, membra, Hor. S. 2, 2, 81: cutem, id. Ep. 1, 2, 29; 1, 4, 15: pelliculam, id. S. 2, 5, 38: se, Ter. Ad. 5, 1, 1; Cic. Phil. 9, 3, 6; id. de Or. 3, 61, 230; cf.: se suamque aetatem, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 34: virum, Tib. 1, 5, 33; and in part. perf.: curati cibo, Liv. 9, 37, 7: omnes vinoque et cibo curatos domos dimisit, id. 34, 16, 5: vineam, to tend, Cato ap. Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 195; cf. apes, Col. 9, 14 et saep.: res rationesque eri, to superintend, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 32: pensa ac domos, of the women of the family, Mel. 1, 9, 6: sociorum injurias, Sall. J. 14, 19: sublimia, Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 15; cf. id. ib. 1, 4, 5: preces (Diana), id. C. S. 71: prodigia, to endeavor to avert, ward off, Liv. 1, 20, 7 et saep.: munus te curaturum scio, Ut mittas mihi, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 79; cf.: aquam mulsam prope ut sit, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 28: te multum amamus, quod ea (signa) abs te diligenter parvoque curata sunt, provided, Cic. Att. 1, 3, 2; cf. II. C. infra: ego illum cum curā magnā curabo tibi, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 7 and 9; so, aliquem, id. Stich. 1, 2, 39; 5, 3, 9; Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 121: curatur a multis, timetur a pluribus, is courted (cf. θεραπεύειν), Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 15 et saep.
            With a negative: quos peperisti ne cures, be unconcerned, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 656; Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 50: alii, quasi corpus nullum sit hominis, ita praeter animum nihil curant, care for nothing except the mind, Cic. Fin. 4, 14, 36: viri nihil perjuria curant (with nihil metuere), Cat. 64, 148: non ego istuc curo, qui sit, unde sit, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 95: alia cura, a conversational expression (lit. trouble yourself about something else; hence), do not trouble yourself, never mind, id. Mil. 3, 3, 55 and 60; and in like sense, aliud cura, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 5.
          2. (β) With acc. and gerundive, to cause something to be done, to order, to urge on, etc. (in good prose and very freq.; predominant in Cæsar): pontem in Arari faciundum, Caes. B. G. 1, 13: obsides inter eos dandos, id. ib. 1, 19; 3, 11; 4, 29 et saep.: buculam faciendam, Cic. Div. 1, 24, 48: epistulam mihi referendam, id. Att. 8, 5, 1: fratrem interficiendum, Nep. Timol. 1, 4 al.
          3. (γ) With part. perf pass.: inventum tibi curabo et mecum adductum Tuom Pamphilum, Ter. And. 4, 2, 1.
          4. (δ) With inf. (most freq. with a negative): ea nolui scribere, quae nec indocti intellegere possent, nec docti legere curarent, would take the trouble, Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 4; so negatively, id. de Or. 1, 20, 91; id. Fam. 1, 9, 16; cf.: nihil Romae geritur, quod te putem scire curare, id. ib. 9, 10, 1; 3, 8, 7; Suet. Caes. 86; Hor. C. 2, 13, 39; id. Ep. 1, 17, 58; id. A. P. 133; 297; Ov. M. 11, 370; 11, 682 et saep.
            Affirmatively: si qui sunt, qui illud curent defendere, Cic. Tusc. 5, 31, 87: qui istas res scire curavit, id. Fl. 27, 64: mando tibi, uti cures lustrare, Cato, R. R. 141: aspice, si quid Et nos, quod cures proprium fecisse, loquamur, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 5; 1, 16, 17; id. A. P. 35; 460 sq.; Suet. Dom. 20; id. Gram. 24.
            (ε) With acc. and inf. pass.: neque vero haec inter se congruere possent, ut natura et procreari vellet et diligi procreatos non curaret, Cic. Fin. 3, 19, 62: symbolos proponi et saxis proscribi curat, Just. 2, 12, 2; 3, 5, 12.
            (ζ) With nom. and inf.: ego capitis mei periculo patriam liberavi, vos liberi sine periculo esse non curatis, Auct. Her. 4, 53, 66.
            (η) With ut, ne, or a simple subj.: pater curabit ut, etc., Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 25 sq.: si fecisset, se curaturam, ut, etc., Cic. Div. 1, 24, 48; Quint. 4, 2, 47; Suet. Aug. 92.
            So in concluding letters: cura ut valeas, take care of yourself, be careful of your health (for which da operam ut valeas, fac valeas, et al. sim.), Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 3; 7, 6, 2; 7, 15, 2; 7, 20, 3; id. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 6; 3, 8, 6; id. Att. 1, 5, 8; 2, 2, 3 et saep.: omnibus rebus cura et provide, ne quid ei desit, id. ib. 11, 3, 3; Quint. 1, 1, 34; 2, 5, 24; Suet. Aug. 94 et saep.: ne illa quidem curo mihi scribas, quae, etc., Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 1: jam curabo sentiat, quos attentarit, Phaedr. 5, 2, 6; Petr. 58, 2: curare uti Romae ne essent, Suet. Rhet. 1 init.
            (θ) With dat. (ante-and post-class.): illis curandum censeo, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 92; so, omnibus, Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1: rebus publicis, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 50: rebus alienis, id. Truc. 1, 2, 41: rebus meis, App. Mag. p. 297.
            (ι) With quod: nam quod strabonus est, non curo, Petr. 68, 8.
            (κ) With de: vides, quanto hoc diligentius curem quam aut de rumore aut de Pollione, Cic. Att. 13, 21, 3.
            (λ) Absol.: curasti probe, Ter. And. 5, 2, 6; cf. Plant. Rud. 2, 3, 50: abi intro; ego hic curabo, id. Bacch. 2, 2, 49; id. Pers. 1, 3, 5: ubi quisque legatus aut tribunus curabat, commanded, Sall. J. 60, 1; cf.: in eā parte, id. ib. 60, 5: in postremo loco cum equitibus, id. ib. 46, 7.
            (μ) Impers.: curabitur, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 70; id. Men. 3, 3, 15; Ter. And. 2, 3, 29: curetur, id. Hec. 2, 2, 15.
      2. 2. Of things (poet.): quae causa suscipienda curarit sollemnia sacra, Lucr. 5, 1163: nec vera virtus Curat reponi deterioribus, Hor. C. 3, 5, 30; with ut, Lucr. 5, 1015; 3, 127; 6, 231 Lachm.; with ne: quod ne miremur sopor atque oblivia curant, id. 4, 826 (822).
  2. II. In partic., t. t.
    1. A. In state affairs, to take the charge of, to manage the business of, to do a thing in behalf of the state, to administer, govern, preside over, command, etc.
          1. (α) With acc.: bellum maritimum curare, Liv. 7, 26, 10; so, Asiam, Tac. A. 4, 36: Achaiam, id. ib. 5, 10: superioris Germaniae legiones, id. ib. 6, 30; cf. id. ib. 1, 31; cf.: duabus his artibus … se remque publicam curabant, Sall. C. 9, 3.
          2. (β) Absol.: Faesulanum in sinistrā parte curare jubet, Sall. C. 59, 3; cf. id. J. 46, 7: duo additi qui Romae curarent, Tac. A. 11, 22.
    2. B. In medic. lang., to heal, cure.
          1. (α) With acc.: an quod corpora curari possint, animorum medicina nulla sit? Cic. Tusc. 3, 2, 4; id. Clu. 14, 40: adulescentes gravius aegrotant, tristius curantur, id. Sen. 19, 67; Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 5: aegrum, Liv. 5, 5, 12: quadrupedes, Quint. 2, 10, 6: aliquem frigidis, Suet. Aug. 81: aliquem radice vel herbā, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 151 et saep.: morbos, Cels. prooem.; Quint. 2, 3, 6; Curt. 5, 9, 3; 7, 1, 22: vulnus, Liv. 2, 17, 4; Quint. 4, 2, 84 et saep.: apparentia vitia, Quint. 12, 8, 10.
            Rarely, to operate: qui ferrum medici prius quam curetur aspexit, Quint. 4, 5, 5.
          2. (β) Absol.: medicinae pars, quae manu curat, Cels. 7 praef.; so Quint. 2, 17, 39 al.
            Hence, P. a. as subst.: cūrans, antis, m., = medicus, a physician: plurimi sub alterutro curantis errore moriuntur, Cels. 3, 8, 5.
            Also cūrandus, i, m., the patient: nisi festinare curandi imbecillitas cogit, Col. 7, 2, 12.
        1. b. Trop. (ironically): cum provinciam curarit, sanguinem miserit, mihi tradiderit enectam, etc., Cic. Att. 6, 1, 2: reduviam (corresp. with capiti mederi), id. Rosc. Am. 44, 128.
    3. C. In mercantile lang., to take care of money matters, to adjust or settle, pay, etc.: (nummos) pro signis, Cic. Att. 1, 8, 2; cf.: pecuniam pro eo frumento legatis, Liv. 44, 16, 2: dimidium pecuniae redemptori tuo, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 4, 2; id. Quint. 4, 15: me cui jussisset curaturum, that I would make payment according to his direction, id. Fam. 16, 9, 3.
      Hence, cūrātus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I.).
      1. 1. Earnest, anxious (post-Aug.): curatissimae preces, Tac. A. 1, 13 fin.: interim me quidam … secreto curatoque sermone corripit, monet, etc., Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 10.
      2. 2. Taken care of, managed, attended to: boves curatiores, Cato, R. R. 103: sacra, Cic. Balb. 24, 55: nitida illa et curata vox, Quint. 11, 3, 26.
        Adv.: cūrātē, carefully, diligently; only in comp.: curatius disserere, Tac. A. 2, 27; 14, 21; 16, 22; Plin. Ep. 1, 1, 1.