aevum | aevom (noun N.m) : (archaic ), , n.; but m., Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 14; Lucr. 2, 561; 3, 603 [αἰών; cf. αἰές or αἰέν, ἀεί, ἀίδιος; Goth. aivs = time, aiv = ever, aiveins = everlasting; Germ. ewig, Ewigkeit; Eng. aye, ever].
* Lit.
* In gen., uninterrupted, never-ending time, eternity; per aevom, Lucr. 1, 634; 1, 950 al.—Hence of the future: in aevum,for all time,Hor. C. 4, 14, 3; so Plin. 35, 2, 2, and Vulg. Eccli. 41, 16: nos peribimus in aevum,ib. Bar. 3, 3.
* Transf.
* Age or generation, Ov. P. 1, 3, 83: ter aevo functus (of Nestor),Hor. C. 2, 9, 13: ingenia nostri aevi,Vell. 2, 36: in nostro aevo,Plin. 2, 25, 23, § 92: nostro aevo,id. 2, 13, 10, § 57: simulacrum tot aevis incorruptum,id. 14, 1, 2, § 9.—Hence
* The men living in the same age (cf. aetas, II. C.): de quibus consensus aevi judicaverit,Plin. 14, 6, 8, § 72.
* In a wider sense, time, in gen.: vitiata dentibus aevi omnia,Ov. M. 15, 235: quae per tantum aevi occulta,Tac. A. 16, 1.

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