Meaning of nūtus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a nod, nodding
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2. a downward tendency or motion; the pull of gravity
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3. a command, will, pleasure (the nod as an expression of will and authority: compare nūmen)
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Equivalents

Examples

“ad nūtum praestō esse”

to be at one's complete disposal

“Ariovistum autem […] superbe et crudeliter imperare, obsides nobilissimi cuiusque liberos poscere et in eos omnia exempla cruciatusque edere, si qua res non ad nutum aut ad voluntatem eius facta sit.”

Moreover, [as for] Ariovistus, […] [he began] to lord it haughtily and cruelly, to demand as hostages the children of all the principal nobles, and wreak on them every kind of cruelty, if every thing was not done at his nod or pleasure.

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