I.busy, diligent, industrious, zealous, careful, unremitting, solicitous, assiduous, sedulous (mostly poet.; “syn.: diligens, officiosus, attentus): eloquentes videbare, non sedulos velle conquirere,” orators, not those who labor at oratory, Cic. Brut. 47, 176: “haec a concubitu fit sedula, tardior illa,” Ov. A. A. 1, 377: “exanimat lentus spectator, sedulus inflat,” Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 178: “tantum venerata virum hunc sedula curet,” Tib. 1, 5, 33; cf. “puer (minister),” Hor. C. 1, 38, 6: “agricola,” Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 101: “olitor, Col. poët. 10, 148: apis,” Tib. 2, 1, 50; Ov. M. 13, 928: “Baucis,” id. ib. 8, 640: “anus,” Tib. 1, 3, 84: “nutrix,” Ov. H. 21, 95; id. M. 10, 438; Hor. A. P. 116: “mater,” Phaedr. 4, 5, 13: “deducat juvenum sedula turba senem,” Tib. 1, 4, 80: “sedula fune viri contento bracchia lassant,” Ov. F. 4, 297: “labor,” Sen. Hippol. 1109: “opera,” App. M. 9, p. 237: “industria,” id. ib. 2, p. 128: “ministerium,” id. ib. 11, p. 267: “cura,” Col. 8, 1, 3 et saep.: velim te arbitrari factum. R. Sedulum est, submoventur hostes, removentur lapides, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 194 P.—
II. With an invidious implication, officious, obtrusive: “ne studio nostri pecces odiumque libellis Sedulus importes opera vehemente minister,” Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 5: “hospes,” id. S. 1, 5, 71: “nec quisquam flammae sedulus addat aquam,” Tib. 2, 4, 42: “luna,” Prop. 1, 3, 32; cf.: “male sedulus,” Ov. A. A. 3, 699; id. M. 10, 438.—Hence, advv.
A. sēdŭlō , busily, diligently, industriously, eagerly, carefully, zealously, unremittingly, assiduously, solicitously, sedulously.
1. In gen. (very freq. and class.; “a favorite word of Plaut. and Ter.): nam ille amico suo sodali sedulo rem mandatam exsequitur,” Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 71 sq.: “ut cognorant, dabimus operam sedulo,” id. Cas. prol. 16; so, “operam dare,” id. Pers. 4, 7, 10; id. Men. 5, 7, 20: “addere,” id. Cist. 1, 1, 54; id. Most. 1, 2, 41: “comparare quae opus sunt,” Liv. 1, 41: “faciam sedulo, Ut, etc.,” Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 25.—Most freq. with facere; cf. Cato, R. R. 2, 2; Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 108; id. Bacch. 4, 8, 30; id. Merc. 2, 3, 126; id. Poen. 1, 2, 144; id. Pers. 1, 1, 47 sq.; Ter. And. 3, 4, 18; 4, 1, 56; id. Eun. 2, 3, 71; id. Heaut. 1, 1, 74; 2, 4, 16; id. Ad. 1, 1, 25; 2, 2, 43; Cic. Clu. 21, 58; id. Fin. 3, 4 fin.; Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 10 a, 2.—With fieri, Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 31; id. Rud. 1, 4, 22; id. Trin. 1, 2, 155; Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 59; id. Phorm. 1, 4, 51; 5, 8, 12; Cic. Fam. 2, 11 fin.; cf.: “sedulo id ago,” Ter. And. 3, 5, 8: “agitans mecum,” id. Phorm. 4, 3, 10: ad socios nostros sedulo dispertieram, alio frumentum, alio legatos, etc., Cato ap. Charis. p. 197 P.; cf.: salutem impertit studiose et sedulo, Lucil. ap. Non. 37, 30: “aliquid conservare,” Cato, R. R. 5, 8: “servare,” Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 7; id. Curc. 5, 2, 41; id. Rud. 2, 3, 52: “celare,” id. Aul. 1, 2, 35: “dissimulare,” Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 2; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 81: “animum advertere,” Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 40; id. Rud. 2, 2, 1; cf.: “munditer se habere,” id. Poen. 1, 2, 26: Ge. Valuistine usque? Ep. Sustentatum'st sedulo, id. Stich. 3, 2, 14; 4, 2, 8: “sedulo aliquid dicere,” to assert emphatically, protest, id. Capt. 4, 2, 106; cf.: ego illud sedulo Negare factum; “ille instat factum,” Ter. And. 1, 1, 119; so, “moneo,” id. Ad. 3, 3, 72: “et moneo, et hortor,” id. Hec. 1, 1, 6: “credere,” i. e. sincerely, id. Phorm. 2, 4, 13; cf. “argumentari,” Cic. Att. 3, 12, 1.—
2. In partic., with an implication of design, on purpose, designedly, intentionally (rare; “not in Cic.): aliquid occultare,” Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 48: “fingit causas, ne det, sedulo,” Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 58: “nusquam nisi in virtute spes est, milites, et ego sedulo, ne esset, feci,” Liv. 34, 14: “diem extrahere,” id. 28, 15: “tempus terere,” id. 3, 46: imitari aliquem, Quint. 7, 1, 54.—
B. sēdŭlē , busily, diligently, carefully, etc. (post-Aug. and rare): “semper custos sedule circumire debet alvearia,” Col. 9, 9, 1: hoc munus implet sedule, Prud. στεφ. 5, 407; Vulg. 4 Reg. 4, 13.