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căpax, ācis, adj. [capio], that can contain or hold much, wide, large, spacious, roomy, capacious (in poets and in post-Aug. prose freq.; in Cic. perh. only once, and then trop; v. infra).

Lit.: mundus, * Lucr. 6, 123:

conchae,

Hor. C. 2, 7, 22:

urna,

id. ib. 3, 1, 16; Ov. M. 3, 172:

capaciores scyphos,

Hor. Epod. 9, 33:

pharetram,

Ov. M. 9, 231:

putei,

id. ib. 7, 568:

urbs,

id. ib. 4, 439:

ripae,

id. Am. 3, 6, 19:

uterus,

Plin. 10, 33, 49, § 93:

portus,

id. 4, 7, 12, § 26:

spatiosa et capax domus,

Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 5:

villa usibus capax,

id. ib. 2, 17, 4:

forma capacissima,

Quint. 1, 10, 40:

moles,

Tac. A. 2, 21.—With gen.:

circus capax populi,

Ov. A. A. 1, 136:

cibi vinique capacissimus,

Liv. 9, 16, 13:

flumen onerariarum navium capax,

Plin. 6, 23, 26, § 99; 12, 1, 5, § 11:

magnae sedis insula haud capax est,

Curt. 4, 8, 2.—

Trop.

Capacious, susceptible, capable of, good, able, apt, fit for: Demosthenes non semper implet aures meas: ita sunt avidae et capaces, etc., * Cic. Or. 29, 104:

ingenium,

great, Ov. M. 8, 533:

animi ad praecepta,

id. ib. 8, 243:

animo majora capaci,

id. ib. 15, 5:

capax est animus noster,

Sen. Ep. 92, 30.—With gen.:

animal mentis capacius altae (i.e. homo),

Ov. M. 1, 76:

imperii,

Tac. H. 1, 49; cf. id. A. 1, 13:

aetas honorum nondum capax,

id. H. 4, 42:

molis tantae mens,

id. A. 1,11: secreti, that can keep or conceal, Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 7:

capacia bonae spei pectora,

Curt. 8, 13, 11:

magnorum operum,

id. 6, 5, 29:

ingenium omnium bonarum artium capacissimum,

Sen. Contr. 2, praef. §

4: cujusque clari operis capacia ingenia,

Vell. 1, 16, 2:

bonum et capax recta discendi ingenium,

id. 2, 29, 5:

laboris ac fidei,

id. 2, 127, 3:

ingenia fecunda et totius naturae capacissima,

Plin. 2, 78, 80, § 190:

doli,

fit, suitable for, Dig. 43, 4, 1.—

In the Lat. of the jurists (cf. capio, II. F.), that has a right to an inheritance, Dig. 34, 3, 29.— Adv.: căpācĭter, Aug. Trin. 11, 2.

ēbrĭus, a, um, adj. [etym. dub.; perh. root phrên; cf. sobrius], who has drunk enough, had his fill, corresp. with satur.

Prop. (very rare):

cum tu satura atque ebria eris, puer ut satur sit facito,

Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 3 Ruhnk.; cf.

saturitate,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 35.—Far more freq. and class.,

full of drink, drunk, intoxicated (cf. also:

potus, ebriosus, temulentus, vinolentus): homo hic ebrius est... Tu istic, ubi bibisti?

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 25; 1, 1, 116; id. Aul. 4, 10, 19, sq. al.; Cic. Mil. 24, 65; id. Phil. 2, 41, 105; id. Div. 2, 58, 120; Sen. Ep. 83, 18 (thrice); Quint. 11, 3, 57; Prop. 4 (5), 5, 46; Hor. S. 1, 4, 51; Ov. M. 4, 26; id. F. 2, 582.— As subst.: ebrĭus, ii, m., a drunkard, Vulg. Psa. 106, 27; id. Job, 12, 25 al. et saep.—

Poet., of inanimate things:

vestigia,

Prop. 1, 3, 9; cf.

signa,

id. 3, 3, 48 (4, 2, 48 M.):

verba,

Tib. 3, 6, 36:

nox,

Mart. 10, 47; cf.

bruma,

id. 13, 1 et saep.—

Trop., intoxicated, drunk, sated, filled:

ebrius jam sanguine civium et tanto magis eum sitiens,

Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 148:

regina fortuna dulci ebria,

intoxicated with good fortune, Hor. C. 1, 37, 12:

dulcis pueri ebrios ocellos,

i. e. intoxicated with love, Cat. 45, 11:

ebria de sanguine sanctorum,

Vulg. Apoc. 17, 6.—

In gen., abundantly filled, full ( poet.):

cena,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 6, 18:

lana de sanguine conchae,

Mart. 14, 154; cf. id. 13, 82:

lucerna,

id. 10, 38.

gĕnĭtūra, ae, f. [root GEN, gigno], a begetting, bearing, birth, generation (postAug.).

Lit.:

in alitum quadrupedumque genitura esse quosdam ad conceptum impetus et terrae,

Plin. 18, 24, 56, § 202; cf.:

origo atque genitura conchae,

id. 9, 35, 54, § 107.—

Transf.

Seed of generation:

profluvia geniturae (virorum),

Plin. 22, 22, 40, § 83.—

That which is generated or created, a creature (eccl. Lat.):

spirantes (i. e. serpentes),

Arn. 1, 8:

incredula,

Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 23.—

In astrology, one's natal star or constellation, nativity:

reticere ipse genituram suam perseverabat,

Suet. Aug. 94; id. Calig. 57; id. Ner. 6; id. Vit. 3; Eutr. 7, 20; Amm. 29, 1 al.

grandis, e, adj. [cf. gradus; also Germ. gross; Engl. great], full-grown, large, great, full, abundant (class.; most freq. of things; for syn. cf.: magnus, ingens, amplus, procerus, vastus, enormis).

Lit.

In gen.:

ita, quicquid (olerum) erat, grande erat,

Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 35; cf.:

ager novatus et iteratus, quo meliores fetus possit et grandiores edere,

Cic. de Or. 2, 30, 131:

quae seges grandissima atque optima fuerit,

Varr. R. R. 1, 52; 1: farra, old poet. ap. Macr. S. 5, 20 fin.:

frumenta,

Verg. A. 4, 405:

hordea,

id. E. 5, 36:

lilia,

id. ib. 10, 25:

ilex,

Sall. J. 93, 4; cf.:

et antiqua robora,

Quint. 10, 1, 88:

grandissimum alicae genus,

Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 112:

grandissimae olivae,

id. 15, 3, 4, § 15 et saep.:

litterae (opp. minutae),

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 68; cf.:

epistola sane grandis,

Cic. Att. 13, 21, 1:

sane grandes libri,

id. Rep. 3, 8:

grandiores libri,

id. Att. 13, 13, 1:

verbosa et grandis epistula,

Juv. 10, 71:

erat incisum grandibus litteris,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 34, § 74:

corpora,

Lucr. 6, 303:

saxa,

id. 1, 289; Caes. B. G. 7, 23, 2; 7, 46, 3; cf.:

cervi eminentes,

id. ib. 7, 72, 4:

tumulus terrenus,

id. ib. 1, 43, 1:

vas,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 21, § 47; cf.

patella,

id. ib. §

46: speculum,

Quint. 11, 3, 68:

cothurni,

Hor. A. P. 80:

lumina,

Ov. M. 5, 545; cf.

membra,

id. ib. 10, 237:

ossa,

id. ib. 9, 169:

conchae,

Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 123:

rhombi,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 95; cf.:

opes grandiores,

Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 47:

smaragdi,

Lucr. 4, 1126:

divitiae,

id. 5, 1118; cf.:

alicui grandem pecuniam credere,

Cic. Rab. Post. 2, 4:

pecunia,

id. Verr. 1, 9, 24; id. Fam. 13, 61; Sall. C. 49, 3; Liv. 10, 46, 10; 27, 20, 7; 32, 40, 9; Suet. Aug. 12; id. Ner. 24; cf.

faenus,

Cic. Fl. 21, 51:

aes alienum,

Sall. C. 14, 2; 24, 3; Plin. 7, 38, 39, § 127; cf.

also: donativum grandius solito,

Suet. Galb. 16:

cenae,

Quint. 10, 1, 58; cf.

convivium,

id. 11, 2, 12:

amiculum grandi pondere,

Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 83; cf.:

grande pondus argenti,

id. Caecin. 4, 12:

grande onus exiguo formicas ore gerentes,

Ov. M. 7, 625:

elementa,

bulky, massive, heavy, id. ib. 1, 29.—In neutr. as grandia ingrediens, advancing with great strides: makra bibas, Gell. 9, 11, 5:

grandia incedens,

Amm. 22, 14.—

Of persons, grown up, big, tall; and more freq. pregn., advanced in years, aged, old; also with natu or aevo.

Absol.:

an sedere oportuit domi virginem tam grandem,

Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 39:

videras grandis jam puer bello Italico, etc.,

Cic. Pis. 36, 87:

nobilis ut grandi cecinit Centaurus alumno (i. e. Achilli),

Hor. Epod. 13, 11:

(Q. Maximus) et bella gerebat ut adolescens, cum plane grandis esset, etc.,

Cic. de Sen. 4, 10; cf. Lucr. 2, 1164:

legibus annalibus cum grandiorem aetatem ad consulatum constituebant, adolescentiae temeritatem verebantur, etc. (shortly after: progressus aetatis),

a more advanced age, Cic. Phil. 5, 17, 47; so,

grandior aetas,

Ov. M. 6, 28; 7, 665:

quandoquidem grandi cibus aevo denique defit,

Lucr. 2, 1141:

metuens virgae jam grandis Achilles cantabat,

Juv. 7, 210.—

With natu or aevo:

non admodum grandis natu, sed tamen jam aetate provectus,

Cic. de Sen. 4, 10; so,

grandis natu,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 49, § 128; id. Rosc. Com. 15, 44; Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 7; Suet. Ner. 34; id. Aug. 89; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 49; cf.:

in aetate consideratur puer an adolescens, natu grandior an senex,

Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 35; so,

grandior natu,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 37:

grandi jam natu vexatus,

Suet. Aug. 53:

grandis aevo parens,

Tac. A. 16, 30 fin.; cf.:

jam grandior aevo genitor,

Ov. M. 6, 321.—

Trop.

In gen., great, strong, powerful: subsellia grandiorem et pleniorem vocem desiderant. Cic. Brut. 84, 289:

vox (opp. exigua),

Quint. 11, 3, 15:

perspicuo et grandi vitio praeditum exemplum,

Cic. Inv. 1, 47, 88; cf.:

exemplis grandioribus uti,

id. Div. 1, 20, 39:

de rebus grandioribus dicere,

id. Fin. 3, 5, 19:

supercilium,

lofty, Juv. 6, 169:

Maecenas, mearum Grande decus columenque rerum,

Hor. C. 2, 17, 4:

ingenium,

Ov. M. 6, 574:

certamen,

Hor. C. 3, 20, 7:

munus,

id. ib. 2, 1, 11:

praemia meritorum,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 38:

carmen,

Juv. 6, 636:

malum,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 49:

lethargus,

id. ib. 2, 3, 145:

alumnus,

noble, id. Epod. 13, 11:

si metit Orcus Grandia cum parvis,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 179; so absol.:

grandia,

id. C. 1, 6, 9; id. A. P. 27.—

In partic., of style, great, grand, lofty, sublime:

genus quoque dicendi grandius quoddam et illustrius esse adhibendum videtur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 82, 337:

grande atque robustum genus dicendi (opp. subtile),

Quint. 12, 10, 58:

causae (opp. pusillae),

id. 11, 3, 151:

antiqua comoedia,

id. 10, 1, 65:

grandia et tumida themata,

id. 2, 10, 6:

sententiae,

id. 2, 11, 3:

grandia elate, jucunda dulciter, moderata leniter canit,

id. 1, 10, 24.—Of the speaker: (oratores Thucydidi aequales) grandes erant verbis, crebri sententiis, compressione rerum breves, [p. 824] Cic. Brut. 7, 29; cf.:

Thucydides rerum gestarum pronunciator sincerus et grandis,

id. ib. 83, 287:

causidicus amplus atque grandis,

id. Or. 9, 30:

quo grandior sit et quasi excelsior orator,

id. ib. 34, 119:

oratores, alii grandes aut graves aut copiosi,

id. Opt. Gen. 1, 2:

multis locis grandior (Lysias),

id. ib. 3, 9:

fiunt pro grandibus tumidi,

Quint. 10, 2, 16; 10, 1, 77.— Adv.: in two forms.

grandĭter (acc. to II.), greatly, strongly, very ( poet. and in postAug. prose):

quamvis grandius ille (Alcaeus) sonet,

sublimely, Ov. H. 15, 30:

illud mihi inter maxima granditer cordi est,

exceedingly, Sid. Ep. 7, 4:

frugi pater,

id. ib. 2:

affectus,

Aug. Conf. 1, 9.—

grandō (rare and poet.), the same:

grande fremens,

strongly, aloud, Stat. Th. 12, 684: grande sonat. Juv. 6, 517.

Indus, a, um, adj., = Indos, of or belonging to India, Indian (as an adj. almost exclusively poet.):

ebur,

Verg. A. 12, 67:

dens,

ivory, Cat. 64, 48:

belua, i. e. elephas,

Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 7:

conchae,

pearls, Prop. 1, 8, 39 (1, 8 b. 13 M.).— Plur.: Indi, ōrum, the inhabitants of India, Indians, Cic. Div. 2, 46, 96:

extremi,

Cat. 11, 2; Mela, 1, 2, 3 sq.; 3, 7, 3.—In sing.: Indus, i, m.

Trop.

An Indian, collect., Verg. G. 2, 172; Ov. A. A. 3, 130.—

An elephant ' s driver, mahout, Liv. 38, 14, 2.—

Transf. ( poet.).

An Ethiopian, Verg. G. 4, 293.—

An Arabian (sing. collect.), Ov. F. 3, 720.

Indus, i, m., = Indos, the name of two rivers.

The Indus, that empties into the Indian Ocean, now Sind, Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 130; Mel. 3, 7; Plin. 6, 20, 23, § 71; Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 24 al.—

A river in Caria, Plin. 5, 28, 29, § 103; Liv. 38, 14, 2.

lăcūno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [lacuna].

To hollow out, to fret or pit:

lacunati tori,

Plin. 15, 10, 9, § 35.—

To panel like a lacunar:

summa lacunabant alterno murice conchae,

Ov. M. 8, 564.

līmax, ācis, f. (less freq. m.) [kindred with 2. limus:

limax a limo quod ibi vivit,

Varr. L. L. 7, § 64 Müll.; cf.: limaces cochleae a limo appellatae, Paul. ex Fest. p. 116 Müll.], a slug, snail.

Lit.:

implicitus conchae limax, Col. poët. 10, 323: limacis inter duas orbitas,

Plin. 29, 6, 36, § 113:

limaces nascuntur in vicia,

id. 18, 17, 44, § 156:

lactucis innascuntur limaces et cochleae,

id. 19, 10, 57, § 177.—

Transf.: limaces lividae, of courtesans, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Varr. l. l.; so perh. limaces viri, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 4, 274.

margo, ĭnis, m. and f. (cf. Prisc. p. 684 P.), an edge, brink, border, margin (class., but not in Cic. or Cæs.):

flumen marginibus lapideis,

Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 9:

conchae,

Plin. 9, 36, 61, § 130:

ulceris,

id. 30, 13, 39, § 113:

calicis,

id. 37, 2, 7, § 18:

gemmae,

id. 37, 8, 37, § 116:

margine gramineo (sc. fontis),

Ov. M. 3, 162:

ripae,

id. ib. 5, 598:

agri,

a boundary, Val. Max. 5, 6, 4:

puppis,

Sil. 3, 360:

terrarum,

shore, Ov. M. 1, 13:

viridi si margine cluderet undas herba,

Juv. 3, 14: capite super margine scuti posito, Liv. 44, 33.—In fem.:

margo, quae sustinet arenam,

Vitr. 5, 12; Aemil. Macer. and Rabir. ap. Charis. p. 49 P.:

plena jam margine libri,

Juv. 1, 5; cf. Quint. 1, 1, 27:

margine in extremo littera rasa,

Ov. Am. 1, 11, 22:

comae,

Stat. S. 2, 1, 44:

oculorum,

id. ib. 3, 2, 53:

rostri,

Plin. 9, 10, 12, § 37:

templi,

threshold, Stat. S. 4, 4, 54:

imperii,

boundary, Ov. Tr. 2, 199; cf.:

extremo in margine imperii, qua Rhenus alluit,

Plin. 12, 20, 43, § 98.—

Transf. ( poet.):

partem modicae sumptam de margine cenae,

i. e. the side-dishes, Juv. 4, 30.

mūrex, ĭcis, m.

The purple-fish, Plin. 9, 36, 60, § 125; Enn. ap. App. Mag. p. 299, 11 (Heduph. v. 11, p. 167 Vahl.):

Baianus,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 32.—The Tritons used the shell as a tuba, Val. Fl. 3, 726.—The shells were also used for holding liquids, Mart. 3, 82, 27.—And for adorning grottos:

summa lacunabant alterno murice conchae,

Ov. M. 8, 563.—

Transf.

The purple dye, purple, made from the juice of the purple-fish:

Tyrioque ardebat murice laena,

Verg. A. 4, 262.—

Of bodies shaped (pointed) like the purplefish.

A pointed rock or slone:

acuto in murice remi Obnixi crepuere,

Verg. A. 5, 205:

Cato sternendum forum muricibus censuerat,

with small, pointed stones, Plin. 19, 1, 6, § 24.—

A sharp murex-shell used for a bridle-bit:

acuto murice frenat Delphinas bijuges,

Stat. Achill. 1; 221.—

A caltrop, with sharp points in every direction:

murices ferreos in terram defodisse Dareum, quā hostem equites emissurum esse credebat,

Curt. 4, 13, 36; Val. Max. 3, 7, 2.—

A spike of iron:

armarium muricibus praefixum,

Gell. 6, 4, 4.

nū̆clĕus ( nŭcŭlĕus), i, m. [for nuculeus, from nux], a little nut.

Lit.

A nut; applied also to fruits resembling a nut:

nucleus amygdalae,

Plin. 15, 13, 12, § 42:

avellanae,

id. 37, 4, 15, § 56:

pinearum nucum,

id. 15, 10, 9, § 35; cf.

pineus,

Cels. 2, 22.—Prov.: e nuce nuculeum qui esse vult, frangit nucem, he who would eat the kernel of a nut breaks the nut, i. e. he who desires an advantage should not shun the labor of earning it, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 55:

nuculeum amisi, retinui pigneri putamina,

I have lost the kernel and kept the shell, id. Capt. 3, 4, 122.—

The hard, uneatable kernel, the stone of fruits:

nuculei olivarum,

Plin. 37, 11, 73, § 188:

persicorum,

id. 23, 7, 67, § 132:

cerasorum,

id. 23, 7, 72, § 141:

lignosus nucleus,

id. 13, 19, 34, § 112:

acini,

id. 23, 1, 9, § 13.—

Transf.

The kernel, the inner part, inside of a thing:

nucleus gallae,

Plin. 24, 4, 5, § 10:

myrrhae,

id. 12, 16, 35, § 70:

allii,

id. 19, 6, 34, § 111:

conchae,

pearls, id. 9, 35, 55, § 111.—

The kernel, i. e. the hardest, firmest, most solid part of a thing:

pinguitudinis (terrae),

Plin. 17, 6, 4, § 42:

ferri,

id. 34, 14, 41, § 144; 36, 25, 62, § 187:

insuper ex testā nucleus inducatur,

Vitr. 7, 1.

nū̆clĕus ( nŭcŭlĕus), i, m. [for nuculeus, from nux], a little nut.

Lit.

A nut; applied also to fruits resembling a nut:

nucleus amygdalae,

Plin. 15, 13, 12, § 42:

avellanae,

id. 37, 4, 15, § 56:

pinearum nucum,

id. 15, 10, 9, § 35; cf.

pineus,

Cels. 2, 22.—Prov.: e nuce nuculeum qui esse vult, frangit nucem, he who would eat the kernel of a nut breaks the nut, i. e. he who desires an advantage should not shun the labor of earning it, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 55:

nuculeum amisi, retinui pigneri putamina,

I have lost the kernel and kept the shell, id. Capt. 3, 4, 122.—

The hard, uneatable kernel, the stone of fruits:

nuculei olivarum,

Plin. 37, 11, 73, § 188:

persicorum,

id. 23, 7, 67, § 132:

cerasorum,

id. 23, 7, 72, § 141:

lignosus nucleus,

id. 13, 19, 34, § 112:

acini,

id. 23, 1, 9, § 13.—

Transf.

The kernel, the inner part, inside of a thing:

nucleus gallae,

Plin. 24, 4, 5, § 10:

myrrhae,

id. 12, 16, 35, § 70:

allii,

id. 19, 6, 34, § 111:

conchae,

pearls, id. 9, 35, 55, § 111.—

The kernel, i. e. the hardest, firmest, most solid part of a thing:

pinguitudinis (terrae),

Plin. 17, 6, 4, § 42:

ferri,

id. 34, 14, 41, § 144; 36, 25, 62, § 187:

insuper ex testā nucleus inducatur,

Vitr. 7, 1.