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1 marmoreus
marmoreus adj., μαρμάρεοσ, made of marble, marble-: signum: solum, floor: te marmoreum fecimus, thy statue, V.: te Ponet marmoream, H.—Resembling marble, marble-like, marble-: cervix, white as marble, V.: pollex, O.: palmae, O.: aequor, V.—Abounding in marble: Paros, O.— Adorned with statues: horti, Iu.* * *marmorea, marmoreum ADJmarble; of marble; marble-like -
2 marmoreus
I.Lit. (class.):II.signum aëneum, marmoreum, eburneum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 1, § 1:tecta,
id. Par. 1, 3, 13:solum,
a floor, id. ib. 6, 3, 49: facere aliquem marmoreum, to make of marble, i. e. as a marble statue, Verg. E. 7, 35:ponere aliquem marmoreum,
Hor. C. 4, 1, 20:colossus,
Juv. 8, 230:villa,
id. 4, 112.—Transf.A.Of or pertaining to marble, marble- (very rare):B.ars,
Vitr. 4, 1.—Resembling marble (in whiteness or smoothness), marble-like, marble- (mostly poet.): pectus, Lucil. ap. Non. 391, 26:C.cervix,
Verg. G. 4, 523:pollex,
Ov. M. 13, 746:palmae,
id. ib. 3, 481:pedes,
id. Am. 2, 11, 15:manus,
Mart. 8, 56, 14:candor,
marblewhiteness, Lucr. 2, 765:color,
i. e. whiteness, id. 2, 775:Paros (from its famous marble quarries),
Ov. M. 7, 465:gelu,
id. F. 4. 918:aequor,
Verg. A. 6, 729.—Adorned with statues:Lucanus in hortis marmoreis,
Juv. 7, 80. -
3 chernites
white marble; marble resembling ivory (L+S) -
4 onychinus
onychina, onychinum ADJonyx, made of onyx marble; resembling/colored like onyx marble -
5 chernites
chernītes, ae, m., = chernitês, a kind of marble resembling ivory, Plin. 36, 17, 28, § 132. -
6 onychina
ŏnychĭnus, a, um, adj., = onuchinos.I. II.Of the marble called onyx:lapis,
Vulg. Gen. 2, 12.—As subst.:onychinus,
the onyx, Vulg. Exod. 39, 13.— Transf., resembling the onyx ( poet.) of the coating of ice on rivers: tegimen onychinum, Laev ap. Gell. 19, 7 fin.—Subst.: ŏnychĭna (sc. vasa), n. plur., vessels of onyx, Lampr. Heliog. 32. -
7 onychinus
ŏnychĭnus, a, um, adj., = onuchinos.I. II.Of the marble called onyx:lapis,
Vulg. Gen. 2, 12.—As subst.:onychinus,
the onyx, Vulg. Exod. 39, 13.— Transf., resembling the onyx ( poet.) of the coating of ice on rivers: tegimen onychinum, Laev ap. Gell. 19, 7 fin.—Subst.: ŏnychĭna (sc. vasa), n. plur., vessels of onyx, Lampr. Heliog. 32.
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