cētĕrus (caet-), a, um (the nom. sing. masc. not in use; the sing., in gen., rare; in Cic. perh. only three times), adj. [pronom. stem ki, and compar. ending; cf. ἕτερος],
I the other , that which exists besides , can be added to what is already named of a like kind with it; the other part (while reliquus is that which yet remains of an object, the rest; e. g. stipendium pendere et cetera indigna pati, and endured other indignities of the kind , Liv. 21, 20, 6. On the other hand: jam vero reliqua—not cetera —quarta pars mundi ea et ipsa totā naturā fervida est, et ceteris naturis omnibus salutarem impertit et vitalem calorem, Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 27; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 33; Doed. Syn. 1, p. 83. Still these ideas, esp. after the Aug. per., are often confounded, and the Engl., the remainder , the rest , and the adverb. phrase for the rest , etc., can be used interchangeably for both words).
1 Sing.
a Masc. : si vestem et ceterum ornatum muliebrem pretii majoris habeat, Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 51 (also in Quint. 5, 11, 28); Nep. Dat. 3, 1: laeta et imperatori ceteroque exercitui, Liv. 28, 4, 1: vestitu calciatuque et cetero habitu, Suet. Calig. 52: illos milites subduxit, exercitum ceterum servavit, Cato ap. Gell. 3, 7, 19: cohortes veteranas in fronte, post eas ceterum exercitum in subsidiis locat, Sall. C. 59, 5: a cetero exercitu, Curt. 5, 9, 11; Tac. Agr. 17; Suet. Galb. 20 fin. : de cetero numero candidatorum, id. Caes. 41.—
b Fem. : cetera jurisdictio, Cic. Att. 6, 2, 5: vita, Sall. C. 52, 31: aetas, Verg. G. 3, 62: nox, Ov. M. 12, 579: silva, id. ib. 8, 750: turba, id. ib. 3, 236; 12, 286; Hor. S. 2, 8, 26: classis, Liv. 35, 26, 9: deprecatio, id. 42, 48, 3; 21, 7, 7: inter ceteram planitiem mons, Sall. J. 92, 5: Graeciam, Nep. Paus. 2, 4: aciem, Liv. 6, 8, 6: multitudinem, id. 35, 30, 8: (super) turbam, Suet. Calig. 26: manum procerum, Tac. Or. 37: pro ceterā ejus audaciā atque amentiā, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 2, § 6: pluviā (aquā) utebantur, Sall. J. 89, 6: ceterā (ex) copiā militum, Liv. 35, 30, 9; Plin. Ep. 2, 16, 1: ceterā (pro) reverentiā, id. ib. 3, 8, 1: ceterā (cum) turbā, Suet. Claud. 12 al.—
c Neutr. : cum a pecu cetero absunt, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 20: non abhorret a cetero scelere, Liv. 1, 48, 5; Suet. Aug. 24: cetero (e) genere hominum, id. ib. 57: quanto violentior cetero mari Oceanus, Tac. A. 2, 24 al.—Subst.: cētĕrum , i, n., the rest : elocuta sum convivas, ceterum cura tu, Plaut. Men. 1, 4, 6: ceterum omne incensum est, Liv. 22, 20, 6; so, de cetero, as for the rest , Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 26; Curt. 4, 1, 14 al.; and in ceterum, for the rest , for the future , Sen. Ep. 78, 15.—
2 Plur. , the rest , the others (freq. in all periods and species of composition): de reliquis nihil melius ipso est: ceteri et cetera ejus modi, ut, etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 5: multae sunt insidiae bonis nosti cetera, id. Planc. 24, 59; id. Fat. 13, 29: cetera de genere hoc, adeo sunt multa, etc., Hor. S. 1, 1, 13; Lucr. 5, 38: ut omittam cetera, Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 18: ibi Amineum... Lucanum serito, ceterae vites in quemvis agrum conveniunt, Cato R. R. 6, 4: quam fortunatus ceteris sim rebus, absque una hac foret, Ter. Hec. 601: nam ceteri fere, qui artem orandi litteris tradiderunt, ita sunt exorsi, quasi, etc., Quint. prooem. § 4; id. 10, 1, 80: ceterae partes loquentem adjuvant, hae ipsae loquuntur, id. 11, 3, 85: sane ceterarum rerum pater familias et prudens et attentus, unā in re paulo minus consideratus, Cic. Quint. 3, 11: hanc inter ceteras vocem, Quint. 9, 4, 55: de justitiā, fortitudine, temperantiā ceterisque similibus, id. prooem. § 12; 3, 5, 5; 2, 4, 38: ego ceteris laetus, hoc uno torqueor, Curt. 6, 5, 3.—
b Et cetera ceteraque or cetera, and so forth , καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς, when one refers to a well-known object with only a few words, or mentions only a few from a great number of objects, Cic. de Or. 2, 32, 141: ut illud Scipionis, Agas asellum et cetera, id. ib. 2, 64, 258; id. Top. 6, 30; 11, 48; id. Tusc. 2, 17, 39; id. Att. 2, 19, 3: et similiter cetera, Quint. 4, 1, 14: vina ceteraque, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 36, § 91; Curt. 3, 4, 10: solem, lunam, mare, cetera, Lucr. 2, 1085: fundum, aedes, parietem, supellectilem, penus, cetera, Cic. Top. 5. 27.—
II Hence, the advv. ,
A cē-tĕrum (orig. acc. respectiv. ), lit. that which relates to the other , the rest (besides what has been mentioned).
1 For the rest , in other respects , otherwise (in good prose): nihil, nisi ut ametis impero: Ceterum quantum lubet me poscitote aurum, ego dabo, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 52: tu aurum rogato: ceterum ( for the rest , in respect to the rest ) verbum sat est, id. ib. 4, 8, 37: precator, qui mihi sic oret: nunc amitte quaeso hunc; ceterum Posthac si quicquam, nil precor, Ter. Phorm. 141: ego me in Cumano et Pompeiano, praeterquam quod sine te, ceterum satis commode oblectabam, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 12 (14), 1: foedera alia aliis legibus, ceterum eodem modo omnia fiunt, Liv. 1, 24, 3; cf. Sall. J. 2, 4; 75, 3; Nep. Eum. 8, 5; Curt. 4, 1, 18.—Rarely after the verb: argentum accepi; nil curavi ceterum, Plaut. Capt. 5, 3, 12: numquid me vis ceterum? id. Ep. 4, 2, 76.—
2 = alioquin, introducing a conclusion contrary to fact (mostly post-class.), otherwise , else , in the opposite event , = Gr. ἄλλως: non enim cogitaras; ceterum Idem hoc melius invenisses, Ter. Eun. 452: ita et anima... solam vim ejus exprimere non valuit,... ceterum non esset anima, sed spiritus, Tert. adv. Marc. 2, 9; Ap. Met. 7, 25, 6; Dig. 4, 4, 7, § 2 al.—
3 In passing to another thought, besides , for the rest; very freq. (esp. in the histt.; usu. placed at the beginning of a new clause; only in the comic poets in the middle): Filium tuom te meliust repetere, Ceterum uxorem abduce ex aedibus, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 73; Ter. Hec. 391; Sall. J. 4, 1; 20, 8; 29, 2; Quint. 6, 1, 8; 8, 6, 51; 9, 2, 14 al.; Suet. Caes. 4; 16; id. Tib. 42; id. Claud. 1; Curt. 3, 1, 4; 3, 3, 7; 3, 6, 13; Col. 8, 8, 5: dehinc ceterum valete, Plaut. Poen. prol. 125; cf. id. ib. 91. —
4 With a restricting force, commonly contrasted with quidem or a neg. phrase; often to be translated by but , yet , notwithstanding , still , on the other hand (esp. freq. since the Aug. per.): cum haud cuiquam in dubio esset, bellum ab Tarquiniis imminere, id quidem spe omnium serius fuit: ceterum, id quod non timebant, per dolum ac proditionem prope libertas amissa est, Liv. 2, 3, 1; Plin. Pan. 5, 4; Flor. 3, 1, 11; Suet. Aug. 8; 66; id. Tib. 61 fin. ; id. Gram. 4 al.: eos multum laboris suscipere, ceterum ex omnibus maxume tutos esse, Sall. J. 14, 12: avidus potentiae, honoris, divitiarum, ceterum vitia sua callide occultans, id. ib. 15, 3; 52, 1; 83, 1; id. C. 51, 26: eo rem se vetustate oblitteratam, ceterum suae memoriae infixam adferre, Liv. 3, 71, 6: id quamquam, nihil portendentibus diis, ceterum neglegentia humana acciderat, tamen, etc., id. 28, 11, 7; 9, 21, 1; 21, 6, 1 Weissenb. ad loc.: ut quisquis factus est princeps, extemplo fama ejus, incertum bona an mala, ceterum aeterna est, Plin. Pan. 55, 9: pauca repetundarum crimina, ceterum magicas superstitiones objectabat, Tac. A. 12, 59; cf. Liv. 3, 40, 11.—
B cētĕra (properly acc. plur. ), = τἆλλα, τὰ λοιπά, as for the rest , otherwise; with adjj. , and (in poets) with verbs (not found in Cic. or Quint.).
α With adj.: Bocchus praeter nomen cetera ignarus populi Romani, Sall. J. 19, 7: hastile cetera teres praeterquam ad extremum, Liv. 21, 8, 10: excepto quod non simul esses, cetera laetus, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 50 (cf. the passage cited under ceterum, II. A. 1. fin. , Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 12 (14), 1): cetera Graius, Verg. A. 3, 594 (so prob. also Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 3, where others read ad cetera): virum cetera egregium secuta, Liv. 1, 35, 6: vir cetera sanctissimus, Vell. 2, 46, 2 Ruhnk.; Plin. 8, 15, 16, § 40; 12, 6, 13, § 25; 22, 25, 64, § 133; Tac. G. 29.—
β With verbs : cetera, quos peperisti, ne cures, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 656: quiescas cetera, Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 53: cetera parce, puer, bello, Verg. A. 9, 656; cf. Sil. 17, 286: cetera non latet hostis, id. 2, 332; Mart. 13, 84.—
C cētĕrō , peculiar to the Nat. Hist. of Pliny, for the rest , in other respects , otherwise : cetero viri quam feminae majus, Plin. 11, 37, 49, § 133; so id. 3, 11, 16, § 105; 6, 26, 30, § 122; 8, 3, 4, § 7; 10, 1, 1, § 1 al.: est et alia iritis cetero similis, at praedura, id. 37, 9, 52, § 138.— Of time: palumbes incubat femina post meridiana in matutinum, cetero mas, id. 10, 58, 79, § 159.