relief
relief
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Alleviation: P. and V. ἀ̆ναψῠχή, ἡ (Plat.), πᾰραψῠχή, P. παραμύθιον, τό, κούφισις, ἡ (Thuc.), V. ἀ̆νᾰκούφῐσις, ἡ.
Cessation: P. and V. ἀ̆νά̆παυλα, ἡ, παῦλα, ἡ.
Abatement: P. λώφησις, ἡ.
Have relief from: P. and V. λωφᾶν (gen.).
When his body hath relief from sickness: V. ὅταν μὲν σῶμα κουφισθῇ νόσου (Eur. Or. 43).
Recreation: P. ῥᾳστώνη, ἡ.
Breathing space: P. and V. ἀ̆ναπνοή, ἡ (Plat.), V. ἀμπνοή, ἡ.
Relief from: P. and V. ἀ̆νά̆παυλα, ἡ (gen.), παῦλα, ἡ (gen.), διά̆λῠσις, ἡ (gen.), V. ἀ̆νᾰκούφῐσις, ἡ (gen.).
Riddance: P. and V. λύσῐς, ἡ, ἀ̆παλλᾰγή, ἡ.
Help: P. βοήθεια, ἡ.
Reliefs, relays. — Apportioning (the work) among themselves in reliefs: P. διηρῃμένοι κατʼ ἀναπαύλας (Thuc. 2.75).
When the Phocian general sent for the cavalry from Argura to act as reliefs: P. ἐπειδὴ ὁ στρατηγὸς Φωκίων μετεπέμπετο τοὺς ἐξ Ἀργούρας ἱππέας ἐπὶ τὴν διαδοχήν (Dem. 567).
Fifty trireme set sail as reliefs and put in at Egypt: P. πεντήκοντα τριήρεις διάδοχοι πλέουσαι ἐς Αἴγυπτον ἔσχον (Thuc. 1.110).
In sculpture, work in relief: P. ἐκτύπωμα, τό, V. τύ̆ποι, οἱ (Eur. Phoen. 1130). Work in relief, v. trans.: P. ἐκτυποῦν.
subs.
Alleviation: P. and V. ἀ̆ναψῠχή, ἡ (Plat.), πᾰραψῠχή, P. παραμύθιον, τό, κούφισις, ἡ (Thuc.), V. ἀ̆νᾰκούφῐσις, ἡ.
Cessation: P. and V. ἀ̆νά̆παυλα, ἡ, παῦλα, ἡ.
Abatement: P. λώφησις, ἡ.
Have relief from: P. and V. λωφᾶν (gen.).
When his body hath relief from sickness: V. ὅταν μὲν σῶμα κουφισθῇ νόσου (Eur. Or. 43).
Recreation: P. ῥᾳστώνη, ἡ.
Breathing space: P. and V. ἀ̆ναπνοή, ἡ (Plat.), V. ἀμπνοή, ἡ.
Relief from: P. and V. ἀ̆νά̆παυλα, ἡ (gen.), παῦλα, ἡ (gen.), διά̆λῠσις, ἡ (gen.), V. ἀ̆νᾰκούφῐσις, ἡ (gen.).
Riddance: P. and V. λύσῐς, ἡ, ἀ̆παλλᾰγή, ἡ.
Help: P. βοήθεια, ἡ.
Reliefs, relays. — Apportioning (the work) among themselves in reliefs: P. διηρῃμένοι κατʼ ἀναπαύλας (Thuc. 2.75).
When the Phocian general sent for the cavalry from Argura to act as reliefs: P. ἐπειδὴ ὁ στρατηγὸς Φωκίων μετεπέμπετο τοὺς ἐξ Ἀργούρας ἱππέας ἐπὶ τὴν διαδοχήν (Dem. 567).
Fifty trireme set sail as reliefs and put in at Egypt: P. πεντήκοντα τριήρεις διάδοχοι πλέουσαι ἐς Αἴγυπτον ἔσχον (Thuc. 1.110).
In sculpture, work in relief: P. ἐκτύπωμα, τό, V. τύ̆ποι, οἱ (Eur. Phoen. 1130). Work in relief, v. trans.: P. ἐκτυποῦν.
RELIEF
Alleviation levatio: allevatio: mitigatio (as act or thing; relief administered): levamen levamentum allevamentum (as thing; relief received): laxamentum (some remission that falls to one’s lot): delenimentum (not Cic. or Caes.): medicina alicujus rei (remedy for it): fomentum (a soothing application; fomenta dolorum Cic.). To cause or bring with it some relief habere levationem alicujus rei (e.g. aegritudinum); levationi or levamento esse: to find or seek for some relief levationem in venire alicui rei (e.g. doloribus).
(In military language) (1) *obsidionis liberatio (from blockade): auxilium subsidium (help succor). To come to the relief of auxilio venire; subsidio proficisci (☞ not suppetias ferre ire proficisci venire advenire accurrere in the best writers). (2) Troops which come for succor auxilia -orum n.; auxilia subsidiaria -orum neuter; subsidiae: to send relief mittere submittere auxilium.
(In a painting) sublimitas (in pictura Plin.): eminentia (Cic.): asperitas. [Vid: CONTRAST.]
Relievo opus caelatum caelatura (but perhaps this is = chasing): toreuma (toreutice seems to have been the art of working in relief PROP. so called): a work in relief anaglyphum; in bas-relief protypum; in full relief ectypum.
Alleviation levatio: allevatio: mitigatio (as act or thing; relief administered): levamen levamentum allevamentum (as thing; relief received): laxamentum (some remission that falls to one’s lot): delenimentum (not Cic. or Caes.): medicina alicujus rei (remedy for it): fomentum (a soothing application; fomenta dolorum Cic.). To cause or bring with it some relief habere levationem alicujus rei (e.g. aegritudinum); levationi or levamento esse: to find or seek for some relief levationem in venire alicui rei (e.g. doloribus).
(In military language) (1) *obsidionis liberatio (from blockade): auxilium subsidium (help succor). To come to the relief of auxilio venire; subsidio proficisci (☞ not suppetias ferre ire proficisci venire advenire accurrere in the best writers). (2) Troops which come for succor auxilia -orum n.; auxilia subsidiaria -orum neuter; subsidiae: to send relief mittere submittere auxilium.
(In a painting) sublimitas (in pictura Plin.): eminentia (Cic.): asperitas. [Vid: CONTRAST.]
Relievo opus caelatum caelatura (but perhaps this is = chasing): toreuma (toreutice seems to have been the art of working in relief PROP. so called): a work in relief anaglyphum; in bas-relief protypum; in full relief ectypum.
relief:
I. Alleviation:
1. lĕvātio: to discover a r. for pain, l. invenire doloribus, Cic. Tusc. 5, extr.: to bring r. for sorrows, l. habere aegritudinum, id. ib. 1, extr.
2. lĕvāmentum: a r. from the tribute, l. tributi, Tac. H. 1, 8: a r. for miseries, l. miseriarum, Cic. Fin. 5, 19, 53.
3. lĕvāmen (that which brings r.): if there were any r. it would be in you alone, si esset aliquod l., id esset in te uno, Cic. Att. 12, 16; Catul.
4. sublĕvātio: r. and remedy s. et medicina, Cic. Rep. 2, 34.
5. allĕvātio: r. from pain, a. (doloris), Cic. Fin. 1, 12, 40.
6. allĕvāmentum: without any remedy or r., sine ullo remedio et a., Cic. Sull. 23, 66.
7. mītĭgātio: v.ALLEVIATION , MITIGATION .
8. laxāmentum: v.RESPITE , RELAXATION .
9. mĕdĭcīna: v.REMEDY .
II. Aid:
1. subsĭdium (esp as a milit. t. t.): to bring r., s. ferre, Caes. B. G. 2, 26: to send (to the) r., subsidio mittere, id. ib. 2, 7: to come to the r., subsidio venire, Cic. Att. 8, 7: v.REINFORCEMENT .
2. auxĭlium: v.HELP , ASSISTANCE , SUCCOUR . Phr.: before r. could come from Carthage, priusquam Carthagine subveniretur, Liv. 29, 25, ad fin.: (he said that) he trusted in the fortifications of the town, if r. could be quickly brought, se confidere munitionibus oppidi si celeriter succurratur, Caes. B. C. 3, 80.
III. T. t. in painting:
1. ēmĭnentia: in the background or in r., in umbris et in eminentia, Cic. Acad. 2, 7, 20.
2. aspĕrĭtas (contrast, inequality): when the prospect of that scene charmed the eyes of all by its bold r., quum aspectus ejus scenae propter asperitatem eblandiretur omnium visus, Vitr. 7, 5, 5: the aspect is effective on account of the r. produced by the spaces between the pillars, aspectus propter a. intercolumniorum habet auctoritatem, id. 3, 3, 9. Phr.: as we fancy that in a work of art some things stand out in r., some recede, ut quaedam eminere in opere, quaedam recessisse credamus Quint. 2, 17, 21.
IV. T. t. in sculpture: to carve in bas-r., caelāre, Cic.; interrādĕre, Plin. 33, 11, 49; hence, a bas-r., caelāmen (rare), Ov. M. 13, 291: caelatūra (the art of carving them; the r.s themselves): carving in too high r. breaks a thin plate, c. altior rumpit tenuem laminam, Quint. 2, 4, 7: bas-r.s taken from subjects in Homer, caelatura carminum Homeri, Suet. Ner. 47: an artist in bas-r., caelātor, Cic. Verr. 4, 24, 54; also tŏreuma, ătis, n. (τόρευμα; see Dict. Ant. voc. "Bronze"): very splendid bas-r.s, perbona t., id. ib. 4, 18, 38: vasa ecty̆pa (ἔκτυπα), Plin. 35, 12, 43: ănăglypta (ἀνάγλυπτα), id. 33, 11, 49: an adj. ănăglyptĭcus occurs in Sid.
I. Alleviation:
1. lĕvātio: to discover a r. for pain, l. invenire doloribus, Cic. Tusc. 5, extr.: to bring r. for sorrows, l. habere aegritudinum, id. ib. 1, extr.
2. lĕvāmentum: a r. from the tribute, l. tributi, Tac. H. 1, 8: a r. for miseries, l. miseriarum, Cic. Fin. 5, 19, 53.
3. lĕvāmen (that which brings r.): if there were any r. it would be in you alone, si esset aliquod l., id esset in te uno, Cic. Att. 12, 16; Catul.
4. sublĕvātio: r. and remedy s. et medicina, Cic. Rep. 2, 34.
5. allĕvātio: r. from pain, a. (doloris), Cic. Fin. 1, 12, 40.
6. allĕvāmentum: without any remedy or r., sine ullo remedio et a., Cic. Sull. 23, 66.
7. mītĭgātio: v.
8. laxāmentum: v.
9. mĕdĭcīna: v.
II. Aid:
1. subsĭdium (esp as a milit. t. t.): to bring r., s. ferre, Caes. B. G. 2, 26: to send (to the) r., subsidio mittere, id. ib. 2, 7: to come to the r., subsidio venire, Cic. Att. 8, 7: v.
2. auxĭlium: v.
III. T. t. in painting:
1. ēmĭnentia: in the background or in r., in umbris et in eminentia, Cic. Acad. 2, 7, 20.
2. aspĕrĭtas (contrast, inequality): when the prospect of that scene charmed the eyes of all by its bold r., quum aspectus ejus scenae propter asperitatem eblandiretur omnium visus, Vitr. 7, 5, 5: the aspect is effective on account of the r. produced by the spaces between the pillars, aspectus propter a. intercolumniorum habet auctoritatem, id. 3, 3, 9. Phr.: as we fancy that in a work of art some things stand out in r., some recede, ut quaedam eminere in opere, quaedam recessisse credamus Quint. 2, 17, 21.
IV. T. t. in sculpture: to carve in bas-r., caelāre, Cic.; interrādĕre, Plin. 33, 11, 49; hence, a bas-r., caelāmen (rare), Ov. M. 13, 291: caelatūra (the art of carving them; the r.s themselves): carving in too high r. breaks a thin plate, c. altior rumpit tenuem laminam, Quint. 2, 4, 7: bas-r.s taken from subjects in Homer, caelatura carminum Homeri, Suet. Ner. 47: an artist in bas-r., caelātor, Cic. Verr. 4, 24, 54; also tŏreuma, ătis, n. (τόρευμα; see Dict. Ant. voc. "Bronze"): very splendid bas-r.s, perbona t., id. ib. 4, 18, 38: vasa ecty̆pa (ἔκτυπα), Plin. 35, 12, 43: ănăglypta (ἀνάγλυπτα), id. 33, 11, 49: an adj. ănăglyptĭcus occurs in Sid.