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D. has been engaged, he tells me, through a course of laborious years, in an investigation into all curious matter connected with the two Universities; and has lately lit upon a MS. collection of charters, relative to C⸺, by which he hopes to settle some disputed points—particularly that long controversy between them as to priority of foundation. The ardor with which he engages in these liberal pursuits, I am afraid, has not met with all the encouragement it deserved, either here, or at C⸺. Your caputs, and heads of colleges, care less than any body else about these questions.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “caput”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
“ mē puer Ascanius capitisque iniūria cārī, quem rēgnō Hesperiae fraudō et fātālibus arvīs.”
“ my son Ascanius, and my wronging of his dear life’s summit, I deprive him of his Hesperian kingdom and destined fields.” (Ascanius will become a legendary king and ancestor of the gens Julia.)
“caput”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“caput”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
caput in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
caput in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to uncover one's head: caput aperire (opp. operire)
to bow one's head: caput demittere
to cut off a man's head: caput praecīdere
to strike one's head against the wall: caputparieti impingere
source, origin: fons et caput (vid. sect. III., note caput...)
a man's life is at stake, is in very great danger: salus, caput, vita alicuius agitur, periclitatur, in discrimine est or versatur
the main dish: caput cenae (Fin. 2. 8. 25)
to put our heads together: capita conferre (Liv. 2. 45)
a person's life is in jeopardy: caput alicuius agitur (vid. sect. V. 8)
the main point: quod caput est
(ambiguous) bare-headed: capite aperto (opp. operto)
(ambiguous) with head covered: capite obvoluto
(ambiguous) to recklessly hazard one's life: in periculum capitis, in discrimen vitae se inferre
(ambiguous) to subtract something from the capital: de capite deducere (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...) aliquid
(ambiguous) to condemn some one to death: capitis or capite damnare aliquem
(ambiguous) to repeal a death-sentence passed on a person: capitis absolvere aliquem
(ambiguous) Solon made it a capital offence to..: Solo capite sanxit, si quis... (Att. 10. 1)
(ambiguous) to suffer capital punishment: supplicio (capitis) affici
“caput”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
caput in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
“caput”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin