Frater

Latin-English

frāt|er, -ris. (ˈfra.ter) masc. (fem. soror)

1. A brother.

[Proto-Indo-European *bhre-H₂ter.]

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 10.1:

iii Nonas cum in Laterium fratris venissem, accepi litteras et paulum respiravi, quod post has ruinas mihi non acciderat.

When I had gotten to my brother's in Laterium on the third of April, I got your letter and got to breathe freely for a bit, something that hadn't happened to me since my ruination.

• βʹ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.43:

Age porro: Iovem et Neptunum deum numeras; ergo etiam Orcus frater eorum deus, et illi, qui fluere apud inferos dicuntur, Acheron, Cocytus, Pyriphlegethon; tum Charon, tum Cerberus di putandi.

Come on, then: Jupiter and Neptune you count as a god; therefore, Orcus their brother is also a god, as are those who are said to flow in the underworld—Acheron, Cocytus, Pyriphlegethon; and then Charon, and then Cerberus should be considered gods.

• γʹ Cicero, De Oratore 2.60:

Quid enim est Vargula adsecutus, cum eum candidatus A. Sempronius cum M. fratre suo complexus esset "puer, abige muscas"?

For what was Vargula going for, when the candidate Aulus Sempronius along with his brother Marcus embraced him, by saying "Boy, drive the flies away"?

• δʹ Cicero, Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.9:

cave, amabo, quidquam, quod ad meum commodum attineat, nisi maximo tuo commodo et maxima tua facultate, mi frater, cogitaris.

Please, be sure not to do anything for the sake of my convenience, brother of mine, unless you think your own convenience and opportunity greatest.