I.Part. pr. gen. plur. carentum, Lucr. 4, 35; Verg. G. 4, 255; 4, 472), 2 (pres. subj. carint = careant, Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 1.— Dep. form careor, acc. to Caper ap. Prisc. p. 797 P.), v. n. cf. κείρω, καρῆναι; Germ. scheeren; Engl. shear, to be cut off from, be without, to want, be in want of, not to have, whether in a good or bad sense; but κατ̓ ἐξοχήν, to be devoid of, to want, to be without some good; and with reference to the subjective state of mind, to miss it (accordingly, of a good that is merely desirable, while egere is used of the want of that which is necessary); constr. regularly with abl.; in ante-class. poets also with gen. or acc. (the latter also in late Lat.).
I. To be without, devoid of, not to have, to be free from (corresp. with abesse, Cic. Rosc. Am. 20, 55; “and opp. frui,” id. Tusc. 3, 18, 40).
A. Of living subjects: “carere culpā,” Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 1; Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 41: “calumniā,” Quint. 9, 4, 57: “malis,” Lucr. 2, 4: “dolore,” Cic. Lael. 6, 22; id. Fin. 1, 11, 38: “febri,” id. Fam. 16, 15, 1, and by poet. license with an inverted construction: “caruitne febris te heri?” Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 17: “morbis,” Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 38: “malo,” id. Tusc. 3, 18, 40: “suspicione,” id. Rosc. Am. 20, 55; Quint. 2, 2, 14: “vitiis,” Hor. C. 3, 27, 39; Quint. 8, 3, 1; 8, 3, 41: “stultitiā,” Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 42: “ambitione,” id. ib. 2, 2, 206: “appellatione,” Quint. 8, 2, 5: “omnibus his quasi morbis voluit carere sapientem,” Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 38: “calumniā,” Quint. 9, 4, 57: “conspiratione et periculo,” Suet. Aug. 19: “stultitiae atque ignorantiae crimine, Auct. B. G. 8 praef.: communi sensu,” Hor. S. 1, 3, 66: “morte,” to be immortal, id. C. 2, 8, 12; Ov. M. 15, 158: “suis figurā,” id. ib. 14, 286; cf. “of virtue, personified: culpāque omni carens praeter se ipsam nihil censet ad se pertinere,” Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 4.—
2. To be without a thing from free-will, i.e. to deprive one's self of a thing not to make use of it, to deny one's self a thing, to abstain from (syn.: abstineo, absum; hence opp. utor; v. the foll.): “temeto,” Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 59; Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 5, 18; cf. “vino,” Plaut. As. 4, 1, 57: “nec Veneris fructu,” renounces not. Lucr. 4, 1073: “lubidinibus,” Sall. C. 13, 5: “amicorum facultatibus,” Nep. Epam. 3, 4: “mulieribus facile,” id. Phoc. 1, 3; cf. absol.: “satiatis vero et expletis jucundius est carere quam frui,” Cic. Sen. 14, 47.—With acc.: “Tandem non ego illam caream, ei sit opus, vel totum triduom?” Ter. Eun. 2, 1, 18.— Hence,
3. Of localities, to hold one's self aloof from, not to go to; or merely, to be absent from (cf. abstineo, II.): “foro, senatu, publico,” Cic. Mil. 7, 18; cf.: “provinciā domoque,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 19, § 41: “aspectu civium,” id. Cat. 1, 7, 17: “declamationibus nostris,” id. Fam. 7, 33, 1: “forensi luce,” id. Brut. 8, 32: “patria,” Nep. Pelop. 1, 4; Tac. A. 4, 58: “Roma,” Cic. Att. 9, 19, 1.—
B. Of inanimate subjects: “terra caret vero sensu,” Lucr. 2, 652; cf. id. 2, 990, and 1, 573: “haec duo tempora carent crimine,” Cic. Lig. 2, 4: “carere omni malo mortem,” id. Tusc. 1, 12, 26: “an ulla putatis Dona carere dolis Danaum?” Verg. A. 2, 44: “nec lacrimis caruere genae,” id. ib. 5, 173: “pars quae peste caret,” id. ib. 9, 540: “oratio, quae astu caret,” Quint. 9, 1, 20: “oeconomia nomine Latino caret,” id. 3, 3, 9: “quae caret ora cruore nostro?” Hor. C. 2, 1, 36: “caret Ripa ventis,” id. ib. 3, 29, 23: “aditu carentia saxa,” Ov. M. 3, 226: “nivibus caritura Rhodope,” id. ib. 2, 222: “naturae vero rerum vis atque vis atque majestas in omnibus momentis fide caret,” Plin. 7, 1, 1, § 7.—
II. To be deprived of, to be without, to feel the want of, to want something that is desirable: “voluptate virtus saepe caret, nunquam indiget,” Sen. Vit. Beat. 7, 2: “patriā,” Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 85: “quam huic erat miserum carere consuetudine amicorum, societate victus, sermone omnino familiari!” Cic. Tusc. 5, 22, 63: “hac luce,” id. ib. 1, 6, 12: “voluptatibus,” id. Sen. 3, 7: “commodis omnibus,” id. Rosc. Am. 15, 44: “provinciis atque oris Italiae maritimis ac portibus nostris,” id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 55: “tali munere,” Verg. A. 5, 651: “citharā,” Hor. C. 1, 31, 20: “vate sacro,” id. ib. 4, 9, 28: “patrio sepulcro,” id. S. 2, 3, 196: “libertate,” id. Ep. 1, 10, 40: “honore,” Ov. M. 15, 614: “laude,” Quint. 2, 20, 10 al.: “caret omni Majorum censu,” has lost, dissipated, Juv. 1, 59.—
c. With acc.: “quia Id quod amo careo,” Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 49; cf. id. Poen. 4, 1, 4: eos parentes careo, Turp. ap. Non. p. 466, 8: “DVLCEM. CARVI. LVCEM. CVM. TE. AMISI.,” Inscr. Grut. 572, 7; so ib. 770, 9; “hence careri,” pass., Marc. Emp. 36 med.; cf.: “virque mihi dempto fine carendus abest,” Ov. H. 1, 50.—
B. With the access. idea of the subjective state of mind or feeling, to feel the want of a thing, to miss: triste enim est nomen ipsum carendi, quia subicitur haec vis; habuit, non habet; “desiderat, requirit, indiget,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, 87; cf. “the context: carere igitur hoc significat, egere eo quod habere velis,” id. ib. § “88: non caret is qui non desiderat,” id. Sen. 14, 47.
