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1 janitrix
jānĭtrix, īcis, f. [janitor], a female door-keeper, a portress.I.Lit.:II.anus hic solet cubitare custos, janitrix,
Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 76.—Transf.:laurus janitrix Caesarum,
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2 janitrix
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3 laurus
laurus, i ( gen. laurūs, Plin. 15, 30, 39, § 132; 14, 16, 19, § 112; Col. 6, 7, 3 codd.; abl. lauru, Hor. C. 2, 7, 19;II.but lauro,
id. ib. 3, 30, 16; nom. plur. laurus, Verg. A. 3, 91; acc. plur. laurus, id. E. 6, 83 al.; Tib. 2, 5, 63; gen. plur. lauruum, acc. to Charis. p. 110 P.), f. [cf. Germ. lor- in Lorbeere], a bay-tree, laurel-tree, laurel, sacred to Apollo; cf.:aliquid cedo Qui vicini hanc nostram augeam aram Apollinis. Da sane hanc virgam lauri,
Plaut. Merc. 4, 1, 11;it grew in greatest beauty on Parnassus, and hence is called Parnasia laurus,
Verg. G. 2, 18;its branches were the decoration of poets,
Hor. C. 4, 2, 9;of the flamens,
Liv. 23, 11; Ov. F. 3, 137. In festivals, the ancestral images were decorated with laurel, Cic. Mur. 41. The leaves, when eaten, were said to impart the power of prophesying, Tib. 2, 5, 63; Juv. 7, 19. Victorious generals, in triumphal processions, wore laurel crowns on their heads and carried laurel branches in their hands, while their lictors bore fasces bound with laurel, Cic. Att. 7, 10; Ov. M. 1, 560. Before the gate of the imperial palace stood two laurel-trees, with oaken crowns, in honor of the emperor, as the vanquisher of foes and the people's preserver:janitrix Caesarum et pontificum,
Plin. 15, 30, 39, § 127 sqq.; Tert. Apol. 35. A wet branch of laurel was used in lustrations, to sprinkle the objects to be purified:cuperent lustrari... si foret umida laurus,
Juv. 2, 158; cf. Dict. Antiq. s. v. lustratio.—Meton. for laurea, a laurel crown, as the sign of a triumph; hence for triumph, victory:incurrit haec nostra laurus non solum in oculos, sed, etc.,
Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 2:Parthica,
Plin. Pan. 14:Indica,
Stat. S. 4, 1, 4:Sarmatica,
Mart. 7, 6, 10:ornari lauro secunda,
Juv. 8, 253.
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