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a puere -- from boyhood

  • 1 puer

        puer erī, m    [3 PV-], a male child, boy, lad, young man (usu. till the age of seventeen): aliquam puero nutricem para, T.: id est semper esse puerum: laudator temporis acti Se puero, when he was a boy, H.: puerum filium regis secum adducentes, L.: doctus a puero, from a boy: ad eas artīs, quibus a pueris dediti fuimus, from boyhood: ex pueris excessit, ceased to be a child: miserande puer, i. e. Pallas, V.: semper fac puer esse velis, i. e. a bachelor, O.: de te largitor, puer, boy, T.— Plur, children: infantium puerorum incunabula: Dum pueris omnis pater pallet, H.— A little son, son: Ascanius puer, V.: Venerem et illi haerentem puerum canebat, H.: deorum pueri, H.— A boy, attendant, servant, slave: unus ex tantā familiā: Persicos odi, puer, apparatūs, H.: Cena ministratur pueris tribus, H.: pueri regii aput Macedonas, royal pages, L.
    * * *
    boy, lad, young man; servant; (male) child

    Latin-English dictionary > puer

  • 2 puer

    pŭer, ĕri (old voc. puere, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 2; 5, 2, 42; id. Most. 4, 2, 32 et saep.; Caecil. and Afran. ap. Prisc. p. 697 P.; gen. plur. puerūm, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 50), m. (v. infra) [root pu-, to beget; v. pudes; and cf. pupa, putus], orig. a child, whether boy or girl:

    pueri appellatione etiam puella significatur,

    Dig. 50, 16, 163.—Thus, as fem.: sancta puer Saturni filia, regina, Liv. And. ap. Prisc. p. 697 P.:

    prima incedit Cereris Proserpina puer,

    i.e. daughter of Ceres, Naev. ib. p. 697 P.: mea puer, mea puer, Poët. ap. Charis. p. 64 P.; Ael. Stil. and As. ib. p. 64 P.—Hence, freq. in the plur. pueri, children, in gen., Plaut. Poen. prol. 28; 30:

    infantium puerorum incunabula,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 53, 153:

    cinis eorum pueros tarde dentientes adjuvat cum melle,

    Plin. 30, 3, 8, § 22; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 7; id. C. 4, 9, 24.—
    II.
    In partic.
    1.
    A male child, a boy, lad, young man (strictly till the seventeenth year, but freq. applied to those who are much older):

    puero isti date mammam,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 1:

    aliquam puero nutricem para,

    Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 104; 5, 2, 4:

    homini ilico lacrimae cadunt Quasi puero,

    id. Ad. 4, 1, 21:

    quo portas puerum?

    id. And. 4, 3, 7:

    nescire quid antea quam natus sis, acciderit, id est semper esse puerum,

    Cic. Or. 34, 120; Ov. P. 4, 12, 20:

    laudator temporis acti Se puero,

    when he was a boy, Hor. A. P. 173; cf.:

    foeminae praetextatique pueri et puellae,

    Suet. Claud. 35.—A puero, and with plur. verb, a pueris (cf. Gr. ek paidos, ek paidôn), from a boy, boyhood, or childhood (cf. ab):

    doctum hominem cognovi, idque a puero,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 16, 4; id. Ac. 2, 3, 8:

    diligentiā matris a puero doctus,

    id. Brut. 27, 104;

    Hor S. 1, 4, 97: ad eas artes, quibus a pueris dediti fuimus,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 1, 2.—In like manner: ut primum [p. 1487] ex pueris excessit Archias, as soon as he ceased to be a child, Cic. Arch. 3, 4.—
    2.
    A grown-up youth, young man, Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 2:

    puer egregius praesidium sibi primum et nobis, deinde summae rei publicae comparavit, of Octavian at the age of nineteen,

    id. ib. 12, 25, 4 (cf. Vell. 2, 61, 1; Tac. A. 13, 6); cf.

    of the same: nomen clarissimi adulescentis vel pueri potius,

    Cic. Phil. 4, 1, 3;

    of Scipio Africanus, at the age of twenty,

    Sil. 15, 33; 44 (coupled with juvenis, id. 15, 10 and 18);

    of Pallas, in military command,

    Verg. A. 11, 42.—
    3.
    An unmarried man, a bachelor, Ov. F. 4, 226.—
    4.
    As a pet name, or in familiar address, boy, fellow, Cat. 12, 9; Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 17.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    A little son, a son ( poet.), Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 72:

    Ascanius puer,

    Verg. A. 2, 598:

    tuque (Venus) puerque tuus (Cupido),

    id. ib. 4, 94; cf. Hor. C. 1, 32, 10:

    Latonae puer,

    id. ib. 4, 6, 37:

    Semeles puer,

    id. ib. 1, 19, 2:

    deorum pueri,

    id. A. P. 83; 185.—
    2.
    A boy for attendance, a servant, slave:

    cedo aquam manibus, puer,

    Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 150; Cic. Rosc. Am. 28, 77:

    Persicos odi, puer, apparatus,

    Hor. C. 1, 38, 1; 2, 11, 18; 4, 11, 10:

    hic vivum mihi cespitem ponite, pueri,

    id. ib. 1, 19, 14:

    cena ministratur pueris tribus,

    id. S. 1, 6, 116:

    tum pueri nautis, pueris convicia nautae Ingerere,

    id. ib. 1, 5, 11:

    regii,

    royal pages, Liv. 45, 6; Curt. 5, 2, 13:

    litteratissimi,

    Nep. Att. 13, 3; Juv. 11, 59; Dig. 50, 16, 204.—
    * 3.
    As adj., youthful:

    puera facies,

    Paul. Nol. Carm. 25, 217.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > puer

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