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a kind of limestone

  • 1 Assius

    Assĭus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to the city Assus (in Troas): lapis, a kind of limestone, which was used for coffins, and in which the body was soon consumed:

    In Asso Troadis sarcophagus lapis fissili venā scinditur. Corpora defunctorum condita in eo absumi constat intra XL. dies exceptis dentibus,

    Plin. 36, 17, 27, § 131.

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  • 2 sarcophagum

    sarcŏphăgus, a, um, adj., = sarkophhagos (flesh-devouring, carnivorous): sarcophagus lapis, a kind of limestone used for coffins (so called because the corpses were quickly consumed by it), Plin. 2, 96, 98, § 211; 36, 17, 27, § 161.—In medicine, Plin. 28, 9, 37, § 140.—
    II.
    Transf., subst.: sarcŏphăgus, i, m. (‡ sarcŏphă-gum, i, n., Inscr. Don. 7, 8), a grave, sepulchre (post-Aug.), Juv. 10, 172; Dig. 11, 7, 37; 34, 1, 18 fin.; Prud. Cath. 3, 203; Inscr. Orell. 194; 4432; 4554 al.

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  • 3 sarcophagus

    sarcŏphăgus, a, um, adj., = sarkophhagos (flesh-devouring, carnivorous): sarcophagus lapis, a kind of limestone used for coffins (so called because the corpses were quickly consumed by it), Plin. 2, 96, 98, § 211; 36, 17, 27, § 161.—In medicine, Plin. 28, 9, 37, § 140.—
    II.
    Transf., subst.: sarcŏphăgus, i, m. (‡ sarcŏphă-gum, i, n., Inscr. Don. 7, 8), a grave, sepulchre (post-Aug.), Juv. 10, 172; Dig. 11, 7, 37; 34, 1, 18 fin.; Prud. Cath. 3, 203; Inscr. Orell. 194; 4432; 4554 al.

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  • 4 saxum

    saxum (in inscrr. also SAKSVM; from collat. form saxus;

    a vocative SAXE,

    Inscr. Orell. 2982), i, n. [root sak-; Sanscr. ska; cf. secare], any large, rough stone; a detached fragment of rock; a rock (in gen.; whereas rupes is a steep rock, crag, cliff).
    I.
    In gen., Lucr. 4, 266 sq.; cf. id. 1, 882:

    non est e saxo sculptus,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 100: pars ludicre saxa Jactant, inter se licitantur, Enn. ap. Non. 134, 13 (Ann. v. 76 Vahl.):

    (Sisyphum) adverso nixantem trudere monte Saxum, etc.,

    Lucr. 3, 1001:

    miser impendens magnum timet aëre saxum Tantalus,

    id. 3, 980: saxo cere comminuit brum, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 412 (Ann. v. 586 Vahl.); cf.:

    si glebis aut saxis aut fustibus aliquem de fundo praecipitem egeris,

    Cic. Caecin.21,60:

    magni ponderis saxa, in muro collocare,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 29; cf. id. ib. 7, 22 fin.; 7, 23; 7, 46: (Thyestes) summis saxis fixus asperis, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107 (Trag. v. 413 Vahl.); cf.:

    aspicite religatum asperis Vinctumque saxis (Prometheum), Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 23: speluncas saxis pendentibu' structas,

    Lucr. 6, 195; cf.

    , of the cave of Cacus: jam primum saxis suspensam hanc aspice rupem,

    Verg. A. 8, 190:

    tot congesta manu praeruptis oppida saxis,

    id. G. 2, 156:

    inter saxa rupesque,

    Liv. 21, 40: saxa spargens tabo, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107 (Trag. v. 414 Vahl.):

    vesco sale saxa peresa,

    Lucr. 1, 326:

    nec turbida ponti Aequora fligebant naves ad saxa,

    id. 5, 1001:

    si ad saxum quo capessit,

    Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 89 et saep.:

    lapis non saxum est,

    Plin. 36, 22, 49, § 169.—In apposition:

    in saxis silicibus uberiores aquae sunt,

    in limestone rocks, Vitr. 8, 1.—
    2.
    Prov.
    a.
    Saxum volvere, i. e. to strive or endeavor in vain (alluding to the stone of Sisyphus):

    satis diu hoc jam saxum volvo,

    Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 55.—
    b.
    Inter sacrum saxumque stare; v. sacrum, A. 2. b.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    For Saxum Tarpejum (cf. Fest. p. 343 Müll. and v. Tarpejus, II.), the Tarpeian Rock:

    horribilis de saxo jactus,

    Lucr. 3, 1016; Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 31; Cic. Att. 14, 16, 2; Hor. S. 1, 6, 39; Tac. A. 2, 32; 4, 29; Dig. 48, 19, 25; v. Tarpeius.—
    B.
    Saxum sacrum, the sacred rock on the Aventine, at which Remus consulted the auspices, Cic. Dom. 53, 136;

    called saxum alone,

    Ov. F. 5, 150.—
    C.
    A superior kind of Cimolian chalk (creta Cimolia), Plin. 35, 17, 57, § 196.—
    D.
    Saxa Rubra; v. ruber, II. B.—
    III.
    Transf.
    1.
    Plur.: saxa, stony ground, rocky places:

    mitis in apricis coquitur vindemia saxis,

    Verg. G. 2, 522:

    Ligurum,

    Mart. 3, 82, 22.—
    2.
    A stone wall:

    Romulus saxo lucum circumdedit alto,

    Ov. F. 3, 431.—
    3.
    The strong foundation of a building:

    Capitolium quadrato saxo substructum,

    Liv. 6, 4, 12.

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