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inter praep. with acc.
inter , adv., and prep. with acc. [kindred
to in, intra; Sanscr. antar; Goth. undar; Germ. unter; Engl. under].
I. Adv., in the midst, in between (poet. and
rare): dumque pii petit ora patris stetit arduus inter pontus, Val. Fl. 5, 337 : tot montibus inter diviso, id. 6, 220 ; 8, 382. --
II. Prep., with acc., between, belwixt,
among, amid, surrounded by.
a. Referring to two places or objects, between:
qui (mons Jura) est inter Sequanos et Helvetios, Caes. B. G.
1, 2 : cum inter me et Brundisium Caesar esset, Cic. Att. 9, 2 : inter Padum atque Alpes, Liv. 5, 35
: ager Tarquiniorum, qui inter urbem ac Tiberim fuit, id. 2, 5 : locus inter duos lucos, id. 1, 8, 5 : apud Artemisium inter Euboeam continentemque terram, id. 2, 5, 2 ; so, inter haec maria Asia, Curt. 3, 1, 13 .--
b. Referring to more than two places or objects, among,
in the midst of: inter hostium tela versari, Cic. de Or. 1, 46 : inter multos saucios spe incertae vitae relictus, Liv. 2, 17, 4 : rex inter primos constiterat, Curt. 5, 3, 9 : inter multitudinem, Liv. 22, 13, 2 : inter lignarios, id. 35, 41, 10 : repertae inter spolia catenae, Tac. A. 2, 18 : vicos aut inter vias manere, Suet. Caes. 39 : inter ingentes solitudines, Sall. J 89, 4 : inter deserta ferarum Lustra domosque, Verg. A. 3, 646 .-- So, even with a noun in the sing., in
the midst of, surrounded by: erat inter ceteram planitiem mons, Sall. J. 92, 5 : tibicines inter exercitum positi, Gell. 1, 11, 3 : inter caedem aquila, Tac. A. 1, 60 ; cf.: inter ceteram praedam, Liv. 22, 16, 7 ; 8, 10, 10: inter purpuram atque aurum, id. 9, 17, 16 . --
a. Between, through, among: inter medias stationes hostium erupere, Liv. 35, 11 : acies inter bina castra procedunt, id. 4, 18, 3 ; Tac. A. 14, 33: inter oppositas classes transmisit, Suet. Caes. 58 : spatiabatur in nemore Parmenion medius inter duces, Curt. 7, 2, 23 : medios inter hostes Londinium perrexit, Tac. A. 14, 33 .--
b. Pregn., including motion to and position
between or among things mentioned, among, into the midst of: inter densas, umbrosa cacumina, fagos Adsidue veniebat, Verg. E. 2, 3 : te mea dextera magna inter praemia ducet, id. A. 12, 437 : dico te priore nocte venisse inter falcarios in Laecae domum, among the scythe-makers, into the
street of the scythe-makers, Cic. Cat. 1, 4, 8 .--
B. Transf., of relations conceived as local.
1. In discrimination (doubt, choice, etc.), between
two or more objects: judicium inter deas tres, Cic. Div. 1, 50, 114 ; cf.: inter Marcellos et Claudios patricios judicare, id. de Or. 1, 39, 176 : inter has sententias dijudicare, id. Tusc. 1, 11, 23 : inter diversas opiniones electio, Quint. prooem. 2: discrimen inter gratiosos cives atque fortes, id. Balb. 21, 49 : inter optime valere et gravissime aegrotare nihil prorsus interesse, id. Fin. 2, 13, 43 : qui bellum et pacem inter dubitabant, Tac. A. 12, 32 : trepidare inter scelus metumque, id. H. 3, 39 : inter pugnae fugaeque consilium, Liv. 1, 27 .--So, with inter repeated: ut nihil inter te atque inter quadrupedem aliquam putes interesse, Cic. Par. 1 ; id. Fin. 1, 9, 30: quid intersit inter popularem civem et inter constantem, severum et gravem, id. Lael. 25, 95 .--
2. In expressing any relation which connects two or
more persons, conceived as between or among them (strife,
rivalry, friendship, intercourse, etc.).
(a). In gen.: quos inter magna fuit contentio, Nep. Mil. 4, 4 : Nestor componere lites Inter Peliden festinat et inter Atriden, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 12 : certamen inter primores civitates, Liv. 10, 6 .--Esp., with pronouns, to express all
reciprocal relations, among, with, or between one another;
mutually, together: quasi nunc non norimus nos inter nos, Ter. Ad. 2, 4, 7 ; Cic. Div. 1, 28, 58; id. Att. 10, 4, 10; id. N. D. 1, 26, 51: quod colloquimur inter nos, with one another, id. de Or. 1, 8, 32 ; cf.: inter nos naturā ad civilem communitatem conjuncti sumus, id. Fin. 3, 20, 66 : vobis inter vos voluntatem fuisse conjunctam, id. Div. in Caecil. 11, 34 : Ciceronis pueri amant inter se, love
one another (like the Fr. s'entr'aimer), id. Att. 6, 1, 12: inter se consultare, id. de Or. 2,
3, 13 : inter se amare, id. Q. Fr. 3,
3, 1 : neque solum se colent inter se ac diligent, id. Lael. 22, 82 : Di inter se diligunt, id. N. D. 1, 44, 122 : furtim inter se aspiciebant, id. Cat. 3,
5, 13 : complecti inter se lacrimantes milites coepisse, Liv. 7, 42
: haec inter se cum repugnent, plerique non vident, Cic. Tusc.
3, 29, 72 : inter se nondum satis noti, Liv. 21, 39
: ratio et oratio conciliat homines inter se, Cic. Off. 1, 16, 50 : ne nostra nobiscum aut inter nos cessatio vituperetur, id. Fam. 9,
3, 4 : quae res eos in magno diuturnoque bello inter se habuit, Sall. J. 79,
3 .--Sometimes
pleon., the reciprocal relation being sufficiently expressed by the context: manus conserentis inter se Romanos exercitus, Sall. H. 1, 41, 19 Dietsch: Ulixes cum Ajace summa vi contendere inter se, Dict. Cret. 5, 14 : conferti inter se, id. 2, 46 .--
(b). So of things: ita effici complexiones atomorum inter se, mutual, reciprocal, Cic. Fin.
1, 6, 19 : colles duos inter se propinquos occupat, near one another, Sall. J. 98, 3 : haud procul inter se erant, id. ib. 41, 2 : multum inter se distant istae facultates, Cic. de Or. 1, 49, 215 : res inter se similes, Quint. 9, 2, 51 : inter se dissimilis, id. 9, 4, 17 .--
(g). Of a common privacy, secrecy, etc.: inter nos,
between or among ourselves, confidentially, like the Fr. entre
nous: nec consulto dicis occulte, sed quod inter nos liceat, ne tu quidem intellegis, Cic. N. D. 1, 26, 74 : quod inter nos liceat dicere, id. Att. 2, 4 : quod inter nos sit, but let that be between ourselves,
Sen. Ep. 12, 2 . --
(d). With nouns denoting a multitude of persons,
like apud (not ante-Aug.): haudquaquam inter id genus contemptor habebatur, Liv. 6, 34, 5 : inter hostes variae fuere sententiae, id. 4, 18, 1 : credula fama inter gaudentes, Tac. H. 1, 34 : more inter veteres recepto, id. ib. 2, 85 .--
3. Of a class of persons or things to which the subject
is referred.
a. In gen., among: homines inter suos nobiles, Cic. Fl. 22, 52 : inter suos et honestus et nobilis, id. Clu. 5, 11 : in oratoribus vero admirabile est, quantum inter omnes unus excellat, id. Or. 2, 6 : inter philosophos (Xenophon) reddendus est, Quint. 10, 1, 37 : ille Croesus, inter reges opulentissimus, Sen. Contr. 2, 9 : Borysthenes inter Scythiae amnes amoenissimus, Mel. 2, 1, 6 .-- So freq. with sup.,
inter and acc. take the place of a gen.: honestissimus inter suos numerabatur, Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 16 : plurimum inter eos valere, Caes. B. G. 2, 4, 4 : maximum imperium inter finitimos, Liv. 5, 3, 10 : inter Atheniensīs longe clarissimi, Curt. 4, 13, 15 ; Plin. 34, 8, 21, § 81; Petr. 78; Sen. Suas. 2, 7; 2, 12; Just. 12,
7, 2; 36, 2, 6.
b. Esp.: inter paucos, etc., [p. 977] among
few, i. e. among the few select ones, eminently, especially: pingunt et vestes in Aegypto inter pauca mirabili genere, Plin. 35, 11, 42, § 150 ; cf.: sternutamento utilis inter pauca, id. 24, 11, 58, § 97 : pugna inter paucas memorata populi Romani clades, Liv. 22, 7 ; cf.: inter paucos disertus, Quint. 10, 3, 13 : inter paucos familiarium Neroni assumptus est, Tac. A. 16, 18 : claritudine paucos inter senum regum, id. ib. 11, 10 ; so, inter alios: judicatur
inter alios omnes beatus, qui in proelio profuderit animam, among all others
to be noticed, i. e. especially, in the highest degree, Amm.
2, 3, 6; so, inter cuncta, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 96 : inter omnia, Curt. 3, 3, 18 : inter cetera, Liv. 37, 12 .--
c. In judic. lang., t. t.: inter sicarios, on
the charge of assassination: cum praetor quaestionem inter sicarios exercuisset, Cic. Fin. 2, 16, 54 ; id. Clu. 53, 147; cf.: in recuperatorio judicio ejus maleficii, de quo inter sicarios quaeritur, id. Inv. 2, 20, 60 : longo intervallo judicium inter sicarios hoc primum committitur, id. Rosc. Am.
5, 11 : sexcenti sunt, qui inter sicarios et de veneficiis accusabant, id. ib. 32, 90 : si ostenderis, quomodo sis eos inter sicarios defensurus, id. Phil. 2,
4, 8 .--
a. Inter manus, within reach, i. e. close
at hand: ante oculos interque manus sunt omnia vestras, Verg. A. 11, 311 ; also, upon or in the hands: inter manus domum ablatus, Liv. 3, 13 : inter quas (manus) collapsus extinguitur, Curt. 8, 2, 39 : inter manus auferri, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 11, § 28 : inter manus meas crevit, under my hands, Sen. Ep. 12 : manus inter maestorumque ora parentum, before their faces and within their reach,
Verg. A. 2, 681 .--
b. Inter viam, vias, on the way: dum rus eo, coepi egomet mecum inter vias, Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 1 ; Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 43: si se inter viam obtulerit, Cic. Att. 4, 3, 5 . --
a. Between two dates or periods specified:
dies XLV. inter binos ludos, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 52 fin. ; Liv. 1, 3.--
b. During, in the course of, within;
for which, in English, we sometimes use by or at: quot prandia inter continuum perdidi triennium, Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 61 : omnia agentur, quae inter decem annos nefarie flagitioseque facta sunt, Cic. Verr. 1, 13 ; cf.: qui inter annos tot unus inventus sit, quem, etc., id. de Imp. Pomp. 23, 68 : inter ipsum pugnae tempus, Liv. 36, 20 : inter noctem lux orta, id. 32, 29 : qui plus cernant oculis per noctem quam inter diem, Gell. 9, 4 .--
c. Freq., with substt., to denote an act
performed at a certain time, in the course of, while: haec inter cenam Tironi dictavi, at table, Cic. Quint. Fragm. 3, 1, 6 ; cf.: illuseras heri inter scyphos, id. Fam. 7, 22 : inter fulmina et tonitrua, id. Phil. 5, 6, 15 : promptior inter tenebras affirmatio, Tac. A. 2, 82 : inter initia, at the beginning, Cels. 3, 25 .--
d. During, and hence under the circumstances
described, i. e. in spite of, notwithstanding: nobis inter has turbas senatus tamen frequens flagitavit triumphum, amid, in spite of these commotions,
Cic. Fam. 16, 11 : utrumque consilium aspernatus, quod inter ancipitia deterrimum est, dum media sequitur, Tac. H. 3, 40 : senum coloniae inter male parentes et injuste imperantes aegra municipia et discordantia, id. Agr. 32 ; cf.: ita neutris cura posteritatis inter infensos vel obnoxios, id. H. 1, 1 .--
e. Inter haec, inter quae, meanwhile, during
this time: = interea, inter haec major alius terror, in the mean time, Liv. 2, 24 ; cf.: inter haec jam praemissi Albam erant equites, id. 1, 29 ; 3, 57, 7; 44, 10, 5; Curt. 3, 1, 1; Suet. Tib. 8; 63: inter quae tribuni plebei petivere, etc., Tac. A. 1, 15 ; 2, 34; 58; 3, 33; id. H. 1, 78; Curt. 4, 2, 10: inter quae unctione uti licet, Cels. 4, 2, 3 .-- So with gerunds and
gerundives: inter agendum, at, while, Verg. E. 9, 24 ; Quint. 12, 3, 10: inter disceptandum, id. 12, 7, 6 : inter res agendas, Suet. Caes. 45 .--
D. In composition its final r is assimilated in
intellego and its derivatives.
a. Between; as, intercedere, interponere. --
b. At intervals, from time to time; as,
interaestuare, intermittere, intervisere.--
c. Under, down, to the bottom; as,
interire, interficere. (Entry in Lewis & Short)