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                    "description": "rŏsa (noun F) : kindr. with ῥόδον\n* A rose.\n* Lit., Varr R. R. 1, 35, 1; Plin. 21, 4, 10, § 14: Paestanae rosae,Mart. 4, 42, 10: cape rosas,id. 2, 59, 3; sacred to Venus,Aus. Idyll. 14; cf. id. ib. 6, 76 and 92; blooms latest of the spring flowers,Plin. 21, 11, 38, § 64.—Hence, sera, Hor. C. 1, 38, 3; cf. Cicero's reproach: cum rosam viderat, tum incipere ver arbitrabatur,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 11, § 27.—Used on festive and solemn occasions for wreaths, for strewing in the way or upon graves, at feasts, etc., Lucr. 2, 627; Hor. C. 1, 36, 15; 2, 11, 14; 3, 19, 22; 29, 3; Prop. 1, 17, 22; 3, 5 (4, 4), 22; 4 (5), 8, 40; Plin. 18, 26, 64, § 236; Sen. Hippol. 769; Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 34; Tac. H. 2, 70 et saep.; cf. Becker, Gall. 3, p. 32 (2d edit.): plena rosarum Atria. Ov. M. 2, 113.— Prov.: inter  vepres rosae nascuntur, Amm. 16, 7, 4.\n* Collect., for roses, wreaths of roses (only so in class. prose): sertis redimiri jubebis et rosā?Cic. Tusc. 3, 18, 43: an tu me in violā putabas aut in rosā dicere?on, among roses,id. ib. 5, 26, 73: in rosā potare,id. Fin. 2, 20, 65: jacere,Sen. Ep. 36, 9: vivere,Mart. 8, 77, 2; cf.: multā in rosā,Hor. C. 1, 5, 1: pulvinus perlucidus rosā fartus,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 11, § 27.\n* Transf.\n* As a word of endearment, in Plautus: mea rosa,my rose, my rosebud,Plaut. As. 3, 3, 74; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 50; or simply rosa,id. Men. 1, 3, 9: tu mihi rosa es,id. Curc. 1, 2, 6.\n* Oil of roses, Cels. 8, 3; 4; 6, 18, 8.\n* The season or month of roses, Inscr. Grut. 753, 4; cf. rosales.\n* The rose-bush, rose-tree: nimium breves Flores amoenae ferre jube rosae,Hor. C. 2, 3, 14: radix silvestris rosae,Plin. 8, 41, 63, § 152.—Plur.: flores rosarum,Lucr. 2, 627; cf. Hor. C. 3, 29, 3: terram ad rosarum et vineae satum vertere,Plin. 18, 26, 64, § 236."
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