I.tempp. perff. the sync. forms prevail: consuesti, consuestis, consuerunt; consueram, etc.; consuero, etc.; consuerim, etc.; consuessem, etc.; “consuesse. Thus also consuēmus = consuevimus,” Prop. 1, 7, 5), v. a. and n.
I. Act., to accustom, inure, habituate a person or thing (ante-class. and postAug.): “tum bracchia consuescunt firmantque lacertos,” Lucr. 6, 397: “juvencum plostro aut aratro,” Col. 6, 2, 9: “vitem largo umori,” id. Arb. 1, 5: “semina falcem pati,” Plin. 17, 10, 14, § 70; in perf. part. pass. (mostly poet.): qui consuetus in armis Aevom agere, Pac. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 21, 48 (Trag. Rel. v. 261 Rib.): “gallus auroram vocare,” Lucr. 4, 713; so with inf., id. 5, 209; 6, 788: “consueta domi catulorum blanda propago,” id. 4, 997 Lachm. N. cr.: “copias habebat in Galliā bellare consuetas locis campestribus, Auct. B. Afr. 73, 2: quibus consueti erant uterque agrestibus ferramentis,” Liv. 1, 40, 5: “socors genus mancipiorum otiis, campo consuetum,” Col. 1, 8, 2: “proinde ut consuetus antehac,” Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 18: “populus si perperam est consuetus, etc.,” Varr. L. L. 9, § 5 Müll.: “grex comparatus ex consuetis unā (capellis),” those accustomed to one another, id. R. R. 2, 3, 2.—Far more freq. in all periods,
II. Neutr.
A. To accustom one's self; and (esp. freq.) in temp. perf. (to have accustomed one's self, i. e.), to be accustomed, to be wont; constr. in gen. with the inf., rarely absol., with ad, the dat., or abl.
(α).
With inf.: “disjungamus nos a corporibus, id est, consuescamus mori,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 75: “versus multos uno spiritu pronuntiare,” id. de Or. 1, 61, 261: cum minus idoneis (verbis) uti consuescerem, id ib. 1, 34, 154; 1, 22, 99: “alils parere suā vo luntate,” id. Inv. 1, 2, 3: “qui mentiri solet pe jerare consuevit,” id. Rose. Com. 16, 46: “paulatim Rhenum transire, etc.,” Caes. B. G. 1, 33: “in Britanniam navigare,” id. ib. 3, 8: “obsides accipere, non dare,” id. ib. 1, 14: “quo magno cum periculo mercatores ire consuerant,” id. ib. 3, 1: “quem ipse procuratorem relinquere antea consuesset,” Cic. Quint. 28, 87: “consuesso deos immortales ... his secundiores interdum res concedere, quos, etc.,” Caes. B. G. 1, 14 et saep.: “quam rem pro magnis hominum officiis consuesse tribui docebat,” id. ib. 1, 43: “qui reges consueris tollere,” Hor. S. 1, 7, 34: “mulier quae cum eo vivere consuerat,” Nep. Alcib. 10, 6; Cels. 6, 6, 8; Suet. Tit. 34; id. Ner. 12.—Sometimes with ellips. of inf. (cf. β infra): “quin eo (equo) quo consuevit libentius utatur (sc. uti),” Cic. Lael. 19, 68: “eo die quo consuerat intervallo hostes sequitur (sc. sequi),” Caes. B. G. 1, 22.—Impers. (rare): “sicuti in sollemnibus sacris fieri consuevit,” is wont, Sall. C. 22, 2. —
(β).
Absol.: “bene salutando consuescunt,” Plaut. As. 1, 3, 69 (cf. adsuescunt, id. ib. 1, 3, 65): “pabulum quod dabis, amurcā conspergito, primo paululum, dum consuescant, postea magis,” Cato, R. R. 103: “adeo in teneris consuescere multum est,” Verg. G. 2, 272.— Usu. with adv. of manner or time: “si liberius, ut consuesti, agendum putabis,” Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 4: ut consuevi, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, 3: “ut consuemus,” Prop. 1, 7, 5: “sicut consuerat,” Suet. Caes. 73: “quo minus pro capite et fortunis alterius, quemadmodum consuerunt, causam velint dicere,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 5; id. Off. 2, 15, 55.—In Gr. attraction: cum scribas et aliquid agas eorum, quorum consuesti, gaudeo, Lucceius ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 1.—
(δ).
With abl.: “quae (aves) consuevere libero victu,” Col. 8, 15 fin.; so id. 8, 13, 1; 10, 153.—（ε) With dat.: “ne gravissimo dolori timore consuescerem,” Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 8.—
B. To have carnal in tercourse with, to cohabit with, in an honorable, or more freq. in a dishonorable sense (freq. and class.); with aliquā or aliquo, with or without cum, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 89: “quid illi ... qui illā consuevit prior?” Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 32: “quācum tot consuesset annos,” id. Hec. 4. 1, 40: “mulieres quibuscum iste consuerat,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, § 30; Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 70; Caecil. ap. Gell. 2, 23, 10; cf. “in a double sense,” Plaut. As. 3, 3, 113; id. Capt. 4, 2, 88.—Hence, consŭētus (in the poets trisyl.), a, um, P. a.; of inanim. things which one is accustomed to, commonly employs, uses, possesses, etc., used, accustomed; usual, ordinary, wonted, customary (mostly poet.; “not in Cic.): amor,” Ter. And. 1, 1, 108: “antra,” Verg. G, 4, 429: “cubilia,” Ov. M. 11, 259: “lectus,” id. Tr. 3, 3, 39: “in auras,” id. M. 2, 266: “pectora,” id. ib. 13, 491: canistris, * Juv. 5, 74: “finis,” Ov. H. 20, 242 al.: “labores, pericula,” Sall. J. 85, 7: “libido,” id. ib. 15, 3: “numerus,” Vulg. Exod. 5, 18; id. Num. 16, 29.—Sup.: “consuetissima cuique Verba,” Ov. M. 11, 638.—* Adv.: consŭētē , in the usual manner, according to custom: “suscipere pabulum,” Amm. 23, 2, 8.
