thanks
thanks
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P. and V. χά̆ρῐς, ἡ.
Decline with thanks: P. ἐπαινεῖν (acc.) (Xen.), cf. Ar. Ran. 508.
No thank you: see under no.
subs.
P. and V. χά̆ρῐς, ἡ.
Decline with thanks: P. ἐπαινεῖν (acc.) (Xen.), cf. Ar. Ran. 508.
No thank you: see under no.
THANKS
gratia (in the plur. when it expresses great number or variety of thanks): grates (solemn religious thanksgiving; ☞ not used in any other sense in good classic prose). To deserve or merit thanks gratiam mereri: gratiam inire apud aliquem or ab aliquo: gratum facere alicui: to owe thanks to anyone gratiam alicui debere: to give or return thanks to anyone gratias agere or persolvere alicui (χάριν ὁμολογεῖν or χάριτας λέγειν by word of mouth or writing followed by quod or qui ☞ not by pro re): gratiam alicui referre reddere; for anything pro re (χάριν ἀποδιδόναι to show one’s self thankful by act and deed: ☞ rarely gratias referre; in Cic. Phil. 3 15 39 it is found among other plurals). Not to return thanks due gratiam negligere: to reap thanks gratiam capere: deserving of thanks gratus (opposed to ingratus; ☞ Ruhnken Ter. Eun. 3 1 6): qui bene meruit (of persons). You will get no thanks for it tibi ingratum erit: to require or demand thanks gratiam exigere ab aliquo: to receive with thanks in gratiam accipere. grate accipere or excipere: thanks be to God! est Deo gratia! THANKSGIVING grates plur.; gratiarum actio (a returning of thanks): grati animi significatio (as expressed): *preces grati in Deum animi (of Christian thanksgiving). A public thanksgiving supplicatio: gratulatio (with festivity; ☞ not festum or dies festus gratiarum actionis): to order a public thanksgiving gratulationem decernere: superis decernere grates (Ov.): to celebrate a public thanksgiving gratulationem facere (e.g. reipublicae bene gestae).
gratia (in the plur. when it expresses great number or variety of thanks): grates (solemn religious thanksgiving; ☞ not used in any other sense in good classic prose). To deserve or merit thanks gratiam mereri: gratiam inire apud aliquem or ab aliquo: gratum facere alicui: to owe thanks to anyone gratiam alicui debere: to give or return thanks to anyone gratias agere or persolvere alicui (χάριν ὁμολογεῖν or χάριτας λέγειν by word of mouth or writing followed by quod or qui ☞ not by pro re): gratiam alicui referre reddere; for anything pro re (χάριν ἀποδιδόναι to show one’s self thankful by act and deed: ☞ rarely gratias referre; in Cic. Phil. 3 15 39 it is found among other plurals). Not to return thanks due gratiam negligere: to reap thanks gratiam capere: deserving of thanks gratus (opposed to ingratus; ☞ Ruhnken Ter. Eun. 3 1 6): qui bene meruit (of persons). You will get no thanks for it tibi ingratum erit: to require or demand thanks gratiam exigere ab aliquo: to receive with thanks in gratiam accipere. grate accipere or excipere: thanks be to God! est Deo gratia! THANKSGIVING grates plur.; gratiarum actio (a returning of thanks): grati animi significatio (as expressed): *preces grati in Deum animi (of Christian thanksgiving). A public thanksgiving supplicatio: gratulatio (with festivity; ☞ not festum or dies festus gratiarum actionis): to order a public thanksgiving gratulationem decernere: superis decernere grates (Ov.): to celebrate a public thanksgiving gratulationem facere (e.g. reipublicae bene gestae).
thanks:
1. grātia (with agere, almost always pl.: otherwise sing.): great t., vast t., magnae, ingentes g., Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 1: to give one a thousand t., incredibiles g. agere, Cic. Fam. 13, 27, 2: extraordinary t., singulares g., id. ib. 13, 41: everlasting t., immortales g., Planc. in Cic. Fam. 10, 11, init.: to give exceeding t., mirificas g. agere, Cic. Att. 14, 13, ad fin.: to give t. to any one in most flattering terms, amplissimis, singularibus verbis g. agere, id. Cat. 3, 6, 14; Sull. 30, 85: to pass a formal vote of t., g. agendas censere, id. Dom. 32, 85: our t. are due to the gods, g. dis debetur, id. Fin. 3, 22, 73: we give thee the warmest t., we feel yet greater thankfulness, maximas tibi g. agimus, majores etiam habemus, id. Marcell. 11, 33. [N.B.--Habere gratiam is prop. to feel t., whilst agere gratias refers to the expr. of them in words: cf. id. Cat. 1, 5, 11: Tusc. 1, 42, 100 with the preced.: referre gratiam is to make a due return, requite, repay, as in id. Fam. 5, 11, 1: Phil. 3, 2, 4: exsolvere, persolvere g., is to thank by acts as well as words: so, meritam dis g. justis honoribus et mente memori persolvere, id. Planc. 33, 80: suis recte factis g. exsolvere, Liv. 28, 25.]
2. grātes, f. (only in nom. and acc.: abl. once in Tac.: the word is somewhat poet., and is only once in Cic.): to utter one's t., dicere g., Virg. Aen. 11, 508: to give praises and t. to the gods, dis laudes g.que agere, Liv. 7, 36: agere habereque, id. 23, 11: (deos) laudibus gratibusque venerari, Tac. A. 12, 37. Phr.: t. to the gods, beneficio (abl.) Deorum, Caes. B. G. 5, 52: I owe you more t. than I owe Milo, ego plus tibi quam Miloni debeo, Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 5: to have to thank the Nile (for it), Nilo beneficium debere (joined to fluminibus gratias agere), Sen. Ben. 6, 7, 3: one bound to give t., debitor, Plin. Ep. 3, 2, ad fin.: Ov.
1. grātia (with agere, almost always pl.: otherwise sing.): great t., vast t., magnae, ingentes g., Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 1: to give one a thousand t., incredibiles g. agere, Cic. Fam. 13, 27, 2: extraordinary t., singulares g., id. ib. 13, 41: everlasting t., immortales g., Planc. in Cic. Fam. 10, 11, init.: to give exceeding t., mirificas g. agere, Cic. Att. 14, 13, ad fin.: to give t. to any one in most flattering terms, amplissimis, singularibus verbis g. agere, id. Cat. 3, 6, 14; Sull. 30, 85: to pass a formal vote of t., g. agendas censere, id. Dom. 32, 85: our t. are due to the gods, g. dis debetur, id. Fin. 3, 22, 73: we give thee the warmest t., we feel yet greater thankfulness, maximas tibi g. agimus, majores etiam habemus, id. Marcell. 11, 33. [N.B.--Habere gratiam is prop. to feel t., whilst agere gratias refers to the expr. of them in words: cf. id. Cat. 1, 5, 11: Tusc. 1, 42, 100 with the preced.: referre gratiam is to make a due return, requite, repay, as in id. Fam. 5, 11, 1: Phil. 3, 2, 4: exsolvere, persolvere g., is to thank by acts as well as words: so, meritam dis g. justis honoribus et mente memori persolvere, id. Planc. 33, 80: suis recte factis g. exsolvere, Liv. 28, 25.]
2. grātes, f. (only in nom. and acc.: abl. once in Tac.: the word is somewhat poet., and is only once in Cic.): to utter one's t., dicere g., Virg. Aen. 11, 508: to give praises and t. to the gods, dis laudes g.que agere, Liv. 7, 36: agere habereque, id. 23, 11: (deos) laudibus gratibusque venerari, Tac. A. 12, 37. Phr.: t. to the gods, beneficio (abl.) Deorum, Caes. B. G. 5, 52: I owe you more t. than I owe Milo, ego plus tibi quam Miloni debeo, Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 5: to have to thank the Nile (for it), Nilo beneficium debere (joined to fluminibus gratias agere), Sen. Ben. 6, 7, 3: one bound to give t., debitor, Plin. Ep. 3, 2, ad fin.: Ov.