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oppĭdō, adv. [etym. dub.; cf. ἔμπεδον; v. oppidum], very, very much, completely, exceedingly, exactly, precisely (already obs. in the time of Quint.: oppido sunt usi paululum tempore nostro superiores, Quint. 8, 3, 25. Confined altogether to familiar discourse; we meet with no example of oppido in Cicero’s orations): oppido, valde multum. Ortum est autem hoc verbum ex sermone inter se confabulantium, quantum quisque frugum faceret, utque multitudo significaretur, saepe respondebatur, Quantum vel oppido satis esset. Hinc in consuetudinem venit, ut diceretur oppido pro valde multum, Fest. p. 184 Müll.: oppido interii, I am completely done for, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 143: perii, id. Aul. 3, 1, 4: iratus, greatly, Ter. Phorm, 2, 2, 3: opportune, id. Ad. 3, 2, 24: ridiculus, Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 259: pauci, id. Fam. 14, 4, 4: inter se differunt, id. Fin. 3, 10, 33: adulescens, Liv 42, 28, 13: perambula aedīs oppido tamquam tuas, just as if they were, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 122.
Also, as an affirmative reply to a question: Omnene? Oppido, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 29.
In a lusus verbb. with oppidum: lignum a me toto oppido et quidem oppido quaesitum, App. Mag. p. 326; Vulg. Gen. 19, 3; id. 2 Par. 35, 23: oppido quam, exceedingly, Vitr. 8, 3: oppido quam breve intervallum, Liv 36, 25, 3: oppido quam parva, id. 39, 47, 2.

oppĭdum, i (gen. plur oppidūm, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 4; old abl plur. oppedeis, Lex. Servil.), n. [ob and pedum; Gr. πέδον; Sanscr pada-m, on or over the plain].

  1. I. A town (of towns other than Rome, which was called Urbs; though occasionally the term oppidum was applied to Rome) (class.): oppidum ab opi dictum, quod munitur opis causā, ubi sit: et quod opus est ad vitam gerundam, Varr. L. L. 5, § 141 Müll.; cf. Fest. p. 202: hi coetus (hominum) sedem primum certo loco domiciliorum causā constituerunt, quam cum locis manuque saepsissent, ejusmodi conjunctionem tectorum oppidum vel urbem appellaverunt, Cic. Rep. 1, 26, 41: Athenas anticum opulentum oppidum Contempla, Enn. ap. Non. 470, 5 (Trag. v. 324 Vahl.): fortunatum oppidum, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 81: Segesta est oppidum pervetus in Siciliā, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 33, § 72: praesidia in oppidis, id. Att. 8, 11, B, § 1: Romana per oppida, Verg. G. 2, 176: urbe (i.e. Romā) oppidove ullo, Suet. Oth. 1.
    Constr. with gen., of name of a town: Antiochiae, Cic. Att. 5, 18, 1.
    Of Rome: per totum oppidum, all through the town, i.e. Rome, Varr. L. L. 6 § 14 Müll.: eos (legatos) in oppidum intromitti non placuit, Liv. 42, 36: oppidum Martis, Mart. 10, 30, 2.
    In like manner oppidum denotes Athens, Nep. Milt. 4, 2; and Thebes, id. Pel. 1, 2.
    In a fig. of an old man: ad hoc ego oppidum vetus continuo legiones meas Protinus adducam: hoc si expugno, etc., Plaut. Ps. 2, 1, 12.
    1. B. Transf., the inhabitants of a town: illic oppida tota canem venerantur, nemo Dianam, Juv. 15, 8.
  2. II. A fortified wood or forest, among the Britons, Caes. B. G. 5, 21.
  3. III. The barriers of the circus (anteclass.): in Circo primo unde mittuntur equi, nunc dicuntur carceres, Naevius oppidum appellat, Varr. L. L. 5, § 153 Müll.; cf. Fest. p. 184 ib.