scene
scene
subs.
Sight, view: P. and V. ὄψῐς, ἡ, θέα, ἡ, θέᾱμα, τό ; see sight.
Place: P. and V. τόπος, ὁ.
Painting: P. and V. γρᾰφή, ἡ, γράμμᾰ, τό, P. ζωγράφημα, τό, V. ἄ̆γαλμα, τό, εἰκών, ἡ.
In a theatre: P. σκηνή, ἡ.
Night fell upon the scene: P. νὺξ ἐπεγένετο τῷ ἔργῳ (Thuc. 4.25).
He made his way not to the scene of action but to the armed men in the procession: P. οὐκ ἐπὶ τὸ γενόμενον ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τοὺς πομπέας ὁπλίτας . . . ἐχώρησε (Thuc. 6.58).
subs.
Sight, view: P. and V. ὄψῐς, ἡ, θέα, ἡ, θέᾱμα, τό ; see sight.
Place: P. and V. τόπος, ὁ.
Painting: P. and V. γρᾰφή, ἡ, γράμμᾰ, τό, P. ζωγράφημα, τό, V. ἄ̆γαλμα, τό, εἰκών, ἡ.
In a theatre: P. σκηνή, ἡ.
Night fell upon the scene: P. νὺξ ἐπεγένετο τῷ ἔργῳ (Thuc. 4.25).
He made his way not to the scene of action but to the armed men in the procession: P. οὐκ ἐπὶ τὸ γενόμενον ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τοὺς πομπέας ὁπλίτας . . . ἐχώρησε (Thuc. 6.58).
SCENE
scena (PROP. and figuratively); also figuratively spectaculum: scene of action arena (litterally wrestling-place): campus (litterally field): theatrum (theatre place of exhibition). A noisy scene turba: an unheard-of scene miraculum: bloody scenes res cruentae. The various scenes of war varium genus bellorum.
scena (PROP. and figuratively); also figuratively spectaculum: scene of action arena (litterally wrestling-place): campus (litterally field): theatrum (theatre place of exhibition). A noisy scene turba: an unheard-of scene miraculum: bloody scenes res cruentae. The various scenes of war varium genus bellorum.
scene:
I. The artificial background of a theatre: scēna (usu. the entire stage): the front of the scene, frons scenae, Vitr. 5, 7, 1: the varied splendour of the s., scenae species clara variaque, Lucr. 4, 77: laughable situations, fit for the scene and the stage, ludibria scena et pulpito digna, Plin. Ep. 4, 25, ad fin.: to be before the s.s (on the stage), in scena esse, Cic. Brut. 84, 290: v.STAGE . Phr.: the s. is shifted by machinery, machinae mutant speciem ornationis, Vitr. 5, 6, 8.
II. Meton. = a part of a play: scēna: (Gr.).
III. A sight, spectacle:
1. spectācŭlum: a dreadful s., atrox s., Tac. Agr. 37: v.SPECTACLE .
2. expr. by other words: O splendid s.! O praeclarum prospectum! Cic. Acad. 2, 25, 80: a mournful s., lugubris p., Tac. H. 1, 84: it presented a terrible s., horribilem speciem praebebat, Caes. B. G. 7, 36: the next day disclosed the s. of victory more fully, proximus dies faciem victoriae latius aperuit, Tac. Agr. 38: Curt. 8, 13, 10.
3. sometimes expr. by neut. adj.: all those s.s rose before his mind, ea universa occurrebant animo, Liv. 25, 24: among the other sad s.s of that year, inter cetera tristia ejus anni, id. 7, 25.
IV. The place in which an event happens: expr. by phr.: the s. of the events I am narrating, ubi ea quae dico gesta esse memorantur, Cic. Verr. 4, 48, 107: Italy, the s. of the civil war, Italia, arena civilis belli, Flor. 4, 2, 18. v.THEATRE .
I. The artificial background of a theatre: scēna (usu. the entire stage): the front of the scene, frons scenae, Vitr. 5, 7, 1: the varied splendour of the s., scenae species clara variaque, Lucr. 4, 77: laughable situations, fit for the scene and the stage, ludibria scena et pulpito digna, Plin. Ep. 4, 25, ad fin.: to be before the s.s (on the stage), in scena esse, Cic. Brut. 84, 290: v.
II. Meton. = a part of a play: scēna: (Gr.).
III. A sight, spectacle:
1. spectācŭlum: a dreadful s., atrox s., Tac. Agr. 37: v.
2. expr. by other words: O splendid s.! O praeclarum prospectum! Cic. Acad. 2, 25, 80: a mournful s., lugubris p., Tac. H. 1, 84: it presented a terrible s., horribilem speciem praebebat, Caes. B. G. 7, 36: the next day disclosed the s. of victory more fully, proximus dies faciem victoriae latius aperuit, Tac. Agr. 38: Curt. 8, 13, 10.
3. sometimes expr. by neut. adj.: all those s.s rose before his mind, ea universa occurrebant animo, Liv. 25, 24: among the other sad s.s of that year, inter cetera tristia ejus anni, id. 7, 25.
IV. The place in which an event happens: expr. by phr.: the s. of the events I am narrating, ubi ea quae dico gesta esse memorantur, Cic. Verr. 4, 48, 107: Italy, the s. of the civil war, Italia, arena civilis belli, Flor. 4, 2, 18. v.