strait
strait
subs.
Narrow sea passage: P. and V. στενόν, τό, πορθμός, ὁ, πόρος, ὁ, V. γνά̆θος, ἡ, στενωπός, ἡ, αὐλών, ὁ, δίαυλος, ὁ.
They shall inhabit the plans that front the straight between two continents: V. ἀντίπορθμα δʼ ἠπείροιν δυοῖν πέδια κατοικήσουσι (Eur. Ion, 1585).
Straits, difficulties: P. and V. ἀ̆πορία, ἡ, ἄ̆πορον, τό, or pl., V. ἀ̆μήχᾰνον, τό, or pl., P. τὰ δυσχερῆ; see also misfortune. Be in straits, v.: P. and V. ἀ̆πορεῖν, ἀ̆μηχᾰνεῖν (rare P.).
Into what straits of necessity have we fallen: V. εἰς οἷʼ ἀνάγκης ζεύγματʼ ἐμπεπτώκαμεν (Eur. I.A. 443).
The maintenance of his mercenaries will land him in great straits: P. εἰς στενὸν κομιδῆ τὰ τῆς τροφῆς τοῖς ξένοις αὐτῷ κακαστήσεται (Dem. 15).
subs.
Narrow sea passage: P. and V. στενόν, τό, πορθμός, ὁ, πόρος, ὁ, V. γνά̆θος, ἡ, στενωπός, ἡ, αὐλών, ὁ, δίαυλος, ὁ.
They shall inhabit the plans that front the straight between two continents: V. ἀντίπορθμα δʼ ἠπείροιν δυοῖν πέδια κατοικήσουσι (Eur. Ion, 1585).
Straits, difficulties: P. and V. ἀ̆πορία, ἡ, ἄ̆πορον, τό, or pl., V. ἀ̆μήχᾰνον, τό, or pl., P. τὰ δυσχερῆ; see also misfortune. Be in straits, v.: P. and V. ἀ̆πορεῖν, ἀ̆μηχᾰνεῖν (rare P.).
Into what straits of necessity have we fallen: V. εἰς οἷʼ ἀνάγκης ζεύγματʼ ἐμπεπτώκαμεν (Eur. I.A. 443).
The maintenance of his mercenaries will land him in great straits: P. εἰς στενὸν κομιδῆ τὰ τῆς τροφῆς τοῖς ξένοις αὐτῷ κακαστήσεται (Dem. 15).
strait
adj.
Narrow: P. and V. στενός, V. στενόπορος.
adj.
Narrow: P. and V. στενός, V. στενόπορος.
STRAIT
adj. Vid. NARROW DIFFICULT.
adj. Vid. NARROW DIFFICULT.
s. A narrow part of the sea fretum: euripus (the former the common and pure Latin word; the latter borrowed from the Greek; with the Greeks and Romans also especially the straits between Euboea and Boeotia now Golfo di Negroponte): fauces angustae or artae (a narrow channel); sometimes bosporus (e.g. bosporus Thracius Cimmerius). The straits of Gibraltar fretum Gaditanum or Herculeum.
Difficulty Vid: STRAIT-WAISTCOAT to put in a strait-waistcoat constringere aliquem (Cic.). Ought not you to have a strait-waistcoat put on you? tu mentis es compos? tu non constringendus? (Cic. Phil. 2 38 97).
Difficulty Vid: STRAIT-WAISTCOAT to put in a strait-waistcoat constringere aliquem (Cic.). Ought not you to have a strait-waistcoat put on you? tu mentis es compos? tu non constringendus? (Cic. Phil. 2 38 97).
strait (adj.): angustus, etc.: v. NARROW .
strait (subs.):
I. Difficulty:
1. angustiae, arum to be put into great s.s (perplexity), in summas a. adduci, Cic. Quint. 5: in these s.s, quum in his a. res esset, Caes. B. C. 1, 54. Also neut. adj. angustum may be used in angustum cogi, Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 2 Caes. (not, however, as subject of sentence).
2. expr. by haereo, si, sum, 2 (to stick fast, be in s.s): he is in s.s (can't get on), haeret in salebra, Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84 and absol., id. Ph. 2, 29, 74.
II. A narrow part of the sea:
1. frĕtum the Sicilian s., (S. of Messina), f. Siciliense, Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 24. the s.s of Gibraltar, (in Roman phrase), f. nostri maris et Oceani, Sall. Jug. 17.
2. angustiae, arum (any narrow place on land or sea): cf. angustiae Hellesponti, Suet. Caes. 63: and, a. fretorum, Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 19.
I. Difficulty:
1. angustiae, arum to be put into great s.s (perplexity), in summas a. adduci, Cic. Quint. 5: in these s.s, quum in his a. res esset, Caes. B. C. 1, 54. Also neut. adj. angustum may be used in angustum cogi, Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 2 Caes. (not, however, as subject of sentence).
2. expr. by haereo, si, sum, 2 (to stick fast, be in s.s): he is in s.s (can't get on), haeret in salebra, Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84 and absol., id. Ph. 2, 29, 74.
II. A narrow part of the sea:
1. frĕtum the Sicilian s., (S. of Messina), f. Siciliense, Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 24. the s.s of Gibraltar, (in Roman phrase), f. nostri maris et Oceani, Sall. Jug. 17.
2. angustiae, arum (any narrow place on land or sea): cf. angustiae Hellesponti, Suet. Caes. 63: and, a. fretorum, Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 19.