To streine or tye hard: to put of: to driue away: to keepe in streict order: to keepe of: to debarce: to forfend. Arcere & continere. Cic. Arcere aditu. Liu. To keepe from entring. Arcere sactis. Plin. Arcere reditu. Cic. To stoppe from returning. A tectis ac mœnibus vrbis arcebis Catilinam. Cic. A progressu arcere. Cic. Recipete & Arcere, contraria. Cic. Arcere limine aliquem. Ouid. Arcere suis finibus externos. Ouid. Homines arcere ab improbitate. Cic. To keepe from lewdnesse. Hæc ætas libidinibus arcenda est. Cic. Must be kept from. Ab iniuria arcere homines pœnâ. Cic. Periculis aliquem arcere. Virg. To preserue from. Veterno aliquem arcere. Horat. Arcere ferro contumeliam. Liu. With the sword to let reproche. Otij finibus arcere scelus aliquod. Cic. Arcere furorem. Lucan. Aquas pluuias arcere. Cic. Frigora pellibus arcere. Ouid. To keepe away colde. Arcere solem. Plin. To keepe of the heate of the sunue. Arcere. Colum.

I. To shut up, to enclose.

A. Lit.: arcere est continere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 15 Müll.: alvus arcet et continet quod recipit, Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 136: orbis caelestis arcens et continens ceteros, id. Rep. 6, 17: nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus, id. N. D. 2, 60, 152: hos quidem ut famulos vinclis prope ac custodiā arceamus, shut in, confine, id. Tusc. 2, 21, 48 (cf. Doed. Syn. II. p. 426).—

B. Trop.: videbam audaciam tam immanem non posse arceri otii finibus, Cic. Har. Resp. 3.—Also, to keep in order: arcendae familiae gratiā, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. noverca, p. 175 Müll.—

II. To keep or hold off, to prevent from approaching, to keep at a distance: arcere prohibere est, Paul. ex Fest. p. 15 Müll.; constr. absol. aliquem, with ab, the simple abl., poet. also with dat.

(a). Absol. aliquem: ille tenet et scit ut hostium copiae, tu ut aquae pluviae arceantur, Cic. Mur. 9, 22; so, aquam pluviam, aquas pluvias arcere, Cic. Top. 10, 43, and Dig. 39, 3: platanus solem arcet, Plin. 12, 1, 5, 11: somnos ducere et arcere, Ov. M. 2, 735: Odi profanum vulgus et arceo, Hor. C. 3, 1, 1.— With an abstr. object: transitum hostis, to arrest, hinder, Liv. 26, 41.—Poet. and in postAug. prose, with inf. as object, to hinder, prevent: quae (dicta) clamor ad aures Arcuit ire meas, Ov. M. 12, 427: plagamque sedere Cedendo arcebat, id. ib. 3, 89; so id. P. 3, 3, 56; Stat. S. 2, 1, 34; id. Th. 1, 455; Sen. Hippol. 805; Sil. 13, 341 al.; Tac. A. 3, 72.— And without object: arcuit Omnipotens, Ov. M. 2, 505.—

(b). With ab: tu, Juppiter, hunc a tuis aris ceterisque templis arcebis, Cic. Cat. 1, 13 fin.: homines ab injuriā, etc., id. Leg. 1, 14: haec aetas a libidinibus arcenda est, id. Off. 1, 34, 122: homines ab improbitate, id. Par. 3, 2, 23: famulas a limine templi, Ov. F. 6, 482: aliquem ab amplexu, id. M. 9, 751: ignavum, fucos, pecus a praesepibus arcent, Verg. G. 4, 168.—

(g). With the simple abl. (not with persons): primordia genitali concilio arceri tempore iniquo, Lucr. 1, 183: illum ut hostem arcuit Galliā, Cic. Phil. 5, 13 fin.: te dominus illis sedibus arcebit, id. ib. 2, 40 fin.; so id. Tusc. 1, 37, 89: Virginiam matronae sacris arcuerant, Liv. 10, 23: aliquem aditu, id. 42, 6; so Suet. Ner. 46; Luc. 10, 499: aquā atque igni arcebatur, Tac. A. 3, 23; so id. ib. 3, 50 (cf. aqua, I. B. 3.) al.: arceor aris, Ov. M. 6, 209: patriis penatibus, id. ib. 9, 446 al.: aliquem funesto veterno, i. e. to protect, guard, Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 10: classes aquilonibus, id. A. P. 64 et saep.—

(d). With dat., to keep off something from: oestrum pecori, Verg. G. 3, 155 (cf.: Solstitium pecori defendite, id. E. 7, 47: mortem fratri depulit, Ov. H. 14, 130; and the Gr. a)mu/nein nhusi\ qoh=|si pu=r, Hom. Il. 9, 435; 9, 347; v. also Rudd. II. p. 150).