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                    "source": "https:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\/hopper\/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059",
                    "description": "(adjective) : vārus, a, um, perh. root kar, kvar; whence Sanscr. kakras, wheel; Lat. circus, curvus, and vārus, for cvarus; cf. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 412\n* Bent, stretched, or grown inwards, or awry.\n* Lit.: (canes) debent esse cruribus rectis et potius varis quam vatiis,Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 4; hence of persons with legs bent inwards, knock-kneed (cf. valgus): hunc varum distortis cruribus; illum Balbutit scaurum pravis fultum male talis,Hor. S. 1, 3, 47 (cf. Orelli et Dillenb. ad loc.); Lucil. ap. Non. 26, 12; Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 54; Dig. 21, 1, 10 fin.: manus,i. e. bent, crooked,Ov. M. 9, 33: bracchia,Mart. 7, 32, 9; Stat. Th. 6, 850: cornua,Ov. M. 12, 382; id. Am. 1, 3, 24: talea,Col. 5, 9, 2.\n* Trop., diverse, different (poet.); absol.: geminos, Horoscope, varo Producis genio,Pers. 6, 18.—With dat.: alterum (genus hominum) et huic varum et nihilo sapientius,different from this,Hor. S. 2, 3, 56."
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                    "description": "vărus (noun M) : \n* An eruption on the face, a blotch, pimple, Gr. ἴονθος, Cels. 6, 5; Plin. 22, 25, 73, § 151; 23, 1, 14, § 19; 23, 4, 42, § 85; 23, 4, 45, § 89."
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