(adjective) : barbātus, a, um, barba.
* Having a beard, bearded.
* Of men: dicere licebit Jovem semper barbatum, Apollinem semper imberbem,Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 83; 1, 36, 100: quos aut imberbes aut bene barbatos videtis,id. Cat. 2, 10, 22.—Poet. as a designation of age, Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 25: equitare in harundine longā, Si quem delectet barbatum, i. e. an adult, * Hor. S. 2, 3, 249: sub Jove, sed Jove nondum barbato,i. e. in the earliest time, when Jupiter was yet young,Juv. 6, 16; 13, 56.—Hence
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* Of animals, fishes, etc., bearded: hirculus,Cat. 19, 16; also absol. barbatus, a goat, Phaedr. 4, 9, 10: mulli,Cic. Att. 2, 1, 7 (cf. id. Par. 5, 2, 28, and Plin. 9, 17, 30, § 64): aquila, a species of eagle, also called ossifraga, Plin. 10, 3, 3, § 11.
* A philosopher (since they wore long beards), Pers. 4, 1; Juv. 14, 12; cf. Hor. S. 1, 3, 133; and as subst. barbatus nudus, Mart. 14, 81.
* Of plants (cf. barba, II. A.), woolly, downy: nux,Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 14.
* Of other things: ne toga barbatos faciat vel paenula libros,i. e. wear out, make bearded,Mart. 14, 84.
* A cognomen of Lucius Corn. Scipio, Inscr.

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