full sister

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germānus, a, um, adj. [v. germen], of brothers and sisters who have the same parents, or at least the same father, full, own (very freq. and class.).

Lit.

Adj.:

spes mihi est vos inventuros fratres germanos duos Geminos, una matre natos et patre uno uno die,

Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 43:

frater,

id. Capt. 5, 4, 18; Ter. And. 1, 5, 57; Cic. Font. 17, 36; id. Verr. 2, 1, 49, § 128; v. frater;

and cf.: L. Cicero frater noster, cognatione patruelis, amore germanus,

Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 1:

soror germana,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 3; id. Truc. 2, 4, 87; Cic. Mil. 27, 73; Nep. Cim. 1:

bimembres (i. e. Centauri),

Ov. M. 12, 240.— Poet., to denote intimate friendship: soror, of a nurse, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 42 Vahl.); cf. also absol.: germana, ib. (v. 48 Vahl.).—

Subst.: germānus, i, m., and germāna, ae, f., an own or full brother, own or full sister (rare):

nunc tu mihi es germanus pariter corpore et animo,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 34:

haec germanus Eryx quondam tuus arma gerebat,

Verg. A. 5, 412; Ov. M. 5, 13:

germanae justa dat ante suae,

id. F. 3, 560; id. M. 6, 613:

(Dryades) Omnes germanae Cererem cum vestibus atris Maerentes adeunt,

id. ib. 8, 781; Vulg. Gen. 27, 35 al.— Poet., of animals, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44.—In a pun with Germanus, a German:

Cimber hic fuit, a quo fratrem necatum hoc Ciceronis dicto notatum est: Germanum Cimber occidit,

Quint. 8, 3, 29; so in plur., Vell. 2, 67 fin. —

Transf.

Of or belonging to brothers and sisters, brotherly, sisterly (very rare);

nunc tu mihi amicus es in germanum modum,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 4, 25; so,

casus (fratrum),

Just. 27, 3 fin. —

In gen., genuine, real, actual, true (a favorite expression of Cicero):

illi veteres germanique Campani,

Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 97:

germanos se putant esse Thucydidas,

id. Or. 9, 32:

magni et germani Attici,

id. ib. 26, 90:

germani hujus artis magistri,

id. de Or. 2, 38, 160;

germani Luperci,

id. Cael. 11, 26:

scio me asinum germanum fuisse,

id. Att. 4, 5, 3:

di (te) omnes perdant, oboluisti allium, Germana illuvies, rusticus, hircus, hara suis,

Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 39:

haec est mea et hujus fratris mei germana patria: hinc enim orti stirpe antiquissima sumus,

Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

ille Theodoromedes fuit germano nomine,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 38:

germana justitia,

Cic. Off. 3, 17, 69:

haec germana ironia est,

id. Brut. 86, 296:

gerrae germanae,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 9.— Sup.:

germanissimus Stoicus,

Cic. Ac. 2, 43, 132.—Hence, adv.: germāne, faithfully, truly:

germane fraterneque rescribere,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 15, b, 2; August. Civ. Dei, 2, 13.

Germānus, a, um, v. Germani, II. A.

germānus, a, um, adj. [v. germen], of brothers and sisters who have the same parents, or at least the same father, full, own (very freq. and class.).

Lit.

Adj.:

spes mihi est vos inventuros fratres germanos duos Geminos, una matre natos et patre uno uno die,

Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 43:

frater,

id. Capt. 5, 4, 18; Ter. And. 1, 5, 57; Cic. Font. 17, 36; id. Verr. 2, 1, 49, § 128; v. frater;

and cf.: L. Cicero frater noster, cognatione patruelis, amore germanus,

Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 1:

soror germana,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 3; id. Truc. 2, 4, 87; Cic. Mil. 27, 73; Nep. Cim. 1:

bimembres (i. e. Centauri),

Ov. M. 12, 240.— Poet., to denote intimate friendship: soror, of a nurse, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 42 Vahl.); cf. also absol.: germana, ib. (v. 48 Vahl.).—

Subst.: germānus, i, m., and germāna, ae, f., an own or full brother, own or full sister (rare):

nunc tu mihi es germanus pariter corpore et animo,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 34:

haec germanus Eryx quondam tuus arma gerebat,

Verg. A. 5, 412; Ov. M. 5, 13:

germanae justa dat ante suae,

id. F. 3, 560; id. M. 6, 613:

(Dryades) Omnes germanae Cererem cum vestibus atris Maerentes adeunt,

id. ib. 8, 781; Vulg. Gen. 27, 35 al.— Poet., of animals, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44.—In a pun with Germanus, a German:

Cimber hic fuit, a quo fratrem necatum hoc Ciceronis dicto notatum est: Germanum Cimber occidit,

Quint. 8, 3, 29; so in plur., Vell. 2, 67 fin. —

Transf.

Of or belonging to brothers and sisters, brotherly, sisterly (very rare);

nunc tu mihi amicus es in germanum modum,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 4, 25; so,

casus (fratrum),

Just. 27, 3 fin. —

In gen., genuine, real, actual, true (a favorite expression of Cicero):

illi veteres germanique Campani,

Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 97:

germanos se putant esse Thucydidas,

id. Or. 9, 32:

magni et germani Attici,

id. ib. 26, 90:

germani hujus artis magistri,

id. de Or. 2, 38, 160;

germani Luperci,

id. Cael. 11, 26:

scio me asinum germanum fuisse,

id. Att. 4, 5, 3:

di (te) omnes perdant, oboluisti allium, Germana illuvies, rusticus, hircus, hara suis,

Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 39:

haec est mea et hujus fratris mei germana patria: hinc enim orti stirpe antiquissima sumus,

Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

ille Theodoromedes fuit germano nomine,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 38:

germana justitia,

Cic. Off. 3, 17, 69:

haec germana ironia est,

id. Brut. 86, 296:

gerrae germanae,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 9.— Sup.:

germanissimus Stoicus,

Cic. Ac. 2, 43, 132.—Hence, adv.: germāne, faithfully, truly:

germane fraterneque rescribere,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 15, b, 2; August. Civ. Dei, 2, 13.

Germānus, a, um, v. Germani, II. A.

frāter, tris, m. [Sanscr. bhrātā; Gr. phratêr, phratôr, clansman; Goth. brothar; Engl. brother], a brother.

Lit.:

frater mi, salve,

Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 58; cf.:

mi frater, mi frater, mi frater, tune id veritus es? etc.,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 1:

amabo te, mi frater, ne, etc.,

id. ib. 1, 4, 1:

L. frater meus,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 11, § 25:

uxores habent inter se communes: et maxime fratres cum fratribus,

Caes. B. G. 5, 14, 4; cf.:

fratrem a fratre renuntiatum,

id. ib. 7, 33, 3:

et filius et fratris filius,

id. ib. 5, 27, 2:

fratris filia,

Plin. Ep. 8, 11, 1:

fratres gemini,

twin-brothers, Cic. Clu. 16, 46; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 41:

fratres gemelli,

Ov. H. 8, 77;

also in the reverse order: gemini fratres,

Cic. Div. 2, 43, 90; Liv. 1, 5, 6; Suet. Caes. 10; Verg. A. 7, 670; Ov. H. 17, 250 (and therefore wrongly censured by Quint.:

quaedam ordine permutato fiunt supervacua, ut fratres gemini: nam si praecesserint gemini, fratres addere non est necesse,

Quint. 9, 4, 24).— Also in sing.: To. Hic ejus geminus est frater. Do. Hiccine'st? To. Ac geminissimus. Do. Di deaeque et te et geminum fratrem excrucient, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 49 sq.:

venimus fratrem quaesitum geminum germanum meum,

my full twin-brother, id. Men. 2, 1, 7; cf.:

spes mihi est, vos inventuros fratres germanos duos Geminos, una matre natos et patre uno uno die,

id. ib. 5, 9, 43:

Cn. Phaenius... frater germanus Q. Titinii,

full brother, own brother, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 49, § 128; id. Font. 17, 36:

fratres uterini,

brothers by the same mother, uterine brothers, Cod. Just. 5, 62, 21: fratribus illa (templa) deis fratres de gente deorum Circa Juturnae composuere lacus, the brothers of a race of gods (Tiberius and Drusus), descended from the divine brothers (Castor and Pollux), Ov. F. 1, 707.—Of the giants:

fratresque tendentes opaco Pelion imposuisse Olympo,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 51:

conjurati fratres,

Verg. G. 1, 280.— Poet. of dogs:

et Thous et Cyprio velox cum fratre Lycisca,

Ov. M. 3, 220; Grat. Cyneg. 299.

Transf.

Like our word brother, as a familiar appellation of friends and lovers.

In gen.:

quam copiose laudatur Apronius a Timarchide... Volo, mi frater, fraterculo tuo credas: consorti quidem in lucris atque in furtis, gemino et simillimo nequitia, improbitate, audacia,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 66, § 155:

frater, pater, adde: Ut cuique est aetas, ita quemque facetus adopta,

Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 54:

frater erat Romae consulti rhetor,

id. ib. 2, 2, 87:

eheu cicatricum et sceleris pudet Fratrumque,

i. e. of dear fellow-citizens, id. C. 1, 35, 34; Juv. 5, 135; cf. Phaedr. 1, 31, 5.—So freq. of civil wars:

gaudent perfusi sanguine fratrum,

Verg. G. 2, 510:

crudeles gaudent in tristi funere fratrum,

Lucr. 3, 70.—

In partic.

Of lovers:

nisi intercederent mihi inimicitiae cum istius mulieris viro: fratre volui dicere: semper hic erro,

Cic. Cael. 13, 32; cf. Tib. 3, 1, 23; Mart. 2, 4, 3; 10, 65, 14 (cf. soror); Petr. 9, 2.—

In publicists' lang., an honorary title given to allies:

Aedui, fratres consanguineique saepenumero a senatu appellati,

Caes. B. G. 1, 32, 2; 2, 3, 5:

non modo hostes, sed etiam fratres nostri Aedui,

Cic. Fam. 7, 10 fin.:

Aedui fratres nostri pugnant,

id. Att. 1, 19, 2 (cf. fraternitas). —

Fratres for brother and sister (as also the Gr. adelphoi):

Lucius et Titia fratres emancipati a patre,

Dig. 10, 2, 38:

tres fratres, Titius, Naevius et Seia,

ib. 2, 14, 35:

fratrum incestus, amor,

Tac. A. 12, 4:

INFANTIBVS HILARIONI ET REVOCATAE FRATRIBVS,

Inscr. Orell. 4583.—

Like Gr. adelphos, of near kindred.

Frater patruelis, a cousin, a father's brother's son:

hic illius frater patruelis et socer T. Torquatus,

Cic. Planc. 11, 27; cf.:

L. Cicero frater noster, cognatione patruelis, amore germanus,

id. Fin. 5, 1, 1; cf. Dig. 38, 10, 1, § 10;

for which simply frater,

Cic. Clu. 24, 60; id. Att. 1, 5, 1; Cat. 66, 22; Ov. H. 8, 28; id. M. 13, 31; Tac. A. 3, 38; 11, 9; Just. 17, 3; Cic. Post Red. in Sen. 10, 25.—

Perh. also for levir (cf. the Fr. beaufrère), a brother-in-law, sister's husband:

prope attonitus ipso congressu Numida, gratias de fratris filio remisso agit,

Liv. 28, 35, 8 (cf. id. 27, 19, 9).—

Fratres Arvales, a college of priests; v. arvalis.—

Frater Solis et Lunae, the title of the Parthian kings, Amm. 17, 5; 23, 5.—

Of things of a like kind (so, too, the Gr. adelphos; cf.

also soror): aspicies illic positos ex ordine fratres (i. e. libros),

Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 107; so Mart. 12, 3, 6.—As a proper name:

(In Mauretania) montes sunt alti, qui... ob numerum Septem, ob similitudinem Fratres nuncupantur,

Mel. 1, 5, 5; Plin. 5, 2, 1, § 18; Sol. 25 (in Ptolemy, Hepta adelphoi; cf. Mann. Afr. 2, p. 459).

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Lībĕra, ae, f. [3. Liber].

Proserpine, daughter of Ceres, and sister of Liber:

hunc dico Liberum Semelā natum, non eum, quem nostri majores auguste sancteque Liberum cum Cerere et Libera consecraverunt, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 24, 62; id. Verr. 2, 5, 14, § 36:

Ceres et Libera, quarum sacra, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 5, 72, §

137: signa aënea Cereri, Libero Liberaeque posuerunt,

Liv. 33, 25:

supplicatio ad Cereris, Liberi Liberaeque fuit,

id. 41, 28;

for which in full: familia ad aedem Cereris, Liberi Liberaeque venum iret,

id. 3, 55, 7.—

Ariadne (because she was the wife of Bacchus), Ov. F. 3, 512.