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                    "description": "(adjective) : nuntĭus, a, um, perh. contr. from noventius, from obsol. novēre, to make new; v. novus.\n* That announces, signifies, makes known; announcing, informing (poet.): nuntia fibra deos?Tib. 2, 1, 26: fratre reversuro, nuntia venit avis,Mart. 8, 32, 8: nuntia littera,Ov. H. 6, 9: simulacra In mentes hominum divinae nuntia formae,Lucr. 6, 77; cf. id. 4, 704: habes animi nuntia verba mei,Ov. H. 16, 10: exta venturae nuntia sortis,Tib. 3, 4, 5.\n* Usually as subst.\n* Nuntĭum, i, n., an announcement, message, news (rare): ad aures nova nuntia referens,this new message,Cat. 63, 75; cf.: nuntius est qui nuntiat, nuntium, quod nuntiatur,Serv. Verg. A. 11, 896: de caelo nuntium erit,Varr. L. L. 6, 86: tyrannum perturbant nuntia,Sedul. 2, 474.\n* Nuntĭus, i, m., a bearer of news, one who brings intelligence, a reporter, messenger, courier (freq. and class.); both of persons and things: Mercurius Jovis qui nuntius perhibetur,Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 1: ad me rus advenit nuntius,id. Merc. 4, 1, 1: o hominem fortunatum, qui ejusmodi nuntios, seu potius Pegasos habet,Cic. Quint. 25, 80: litteris, nuntiis, cohortationibus omnes excitare. id. Phil. 14, 7, 20: facere aliquem  certiorem per nuntium, id. Att. 11, 24, 4: aliquid audire sine capite, sine auctore, rumore nuntio,id. Fam. 12, 10, 1: litteras et nuntios mittere ad aliquem,Caes. B. G. 1, 26: nuntius ibis Pelidae,Verg. A. 2, 547: nuntius adfert rem,Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 25: nuntius ales, i. e. Mercurius,Ov. H. 16, 68: Mercurius, nuntius Jovis et deorum,Hor. C. 1, 10, 5: nuntii afferunt Darium premi a Scythis,Nep. Milt. 3, 3.—Poet., of a woman: huic dea ... utinam non hic tibi nuntius essem,Val. Fl. 2, 141.\n* A messenger, the bearer of a written message, = tabellarius (very rare): nuntio ipsius, qui litteras attulerat dici (placuit),Liv. 42, 37, 6.\n* Nuntĭa, ae, f., a female messenger, she that brings tidings: nuntia fulva Jovis, i. e. the eagle, Poët. ap. Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 2; cf. Liv. 1, 34: historia nuntia vetustatis,Cic. de Or. 2, 9, 36: vox nuntia cladis,Liv. 5, 50: fama nuntia veri,Verg. A. 4, 188; Ov. P. 4, 4, 15: plaga nuntia rerum,Lucr. 4, 704; cf. Val. Fl. 2, 141; B. 1. a. fin. supra.\n* In gen., a message, news, tidings: nuntium exoptabilem nuntiare,Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 67: opta ergo ob istunc nuntium quidvis tibi,id. Merc. 5, 2, 65: inest lepos in nuntio tuo magnus,id. Rud. 2, 3, 22: acerbum nuntium alicui perferre,Cic. Balb. 28, 64: de Q. Fratre nuntii nobis tristes venerunt,id. Att. 3, 17, 1: exoptatum nuntium alicui afferre,id. Rosc. Am. 7, 19: nuntium optatissimum accipere,id. Fam. 2, 19, 1: nuntium perferre,id. Lig. 3, 7: nuntium ferre ad aliquem,Liv. 4, 41: horribilis nuntius affertur,Cat. 84, 10; Verg. A. 8, 582.\n* In partic.\n* A command, order, injunction: quos senatus ad denuntiandum bellum miserat, nisi legatorum nuntio paruisset,Cic. Fam. 12, 24, 2; Nep. Chabr. 3, 1.\n* Nuntium uxori remittere or mittere, to send one's wife a letter of divorce, Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 183; 56, 238; id. Att. 1, 13, 3; Dig. 24, 2, 4; 24, 3, 22.—Also of a woman who separates from her husband, Cic. Top. 4, 19; App. M. 9, p. 230 med. —Of the annulling of a betrothment: si invito patrono nuntium sponsa liberta remiserit,Dig. 23, 2, 45.—Of the rejection of the marriage contract by the parents and guardians: ego adeo jam illi remittam nuntium adfini meo,Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 74: si puellae tutores ad infringenda sponsalia nuntium miserint,Dig. 23, 1, 6.\n* Hence, transf.: virtuti nuntium remittere,to renounce,Cic. Fam. 15, 16, 3."
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