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(P. a.) : căpillātus, a, um, of capillor, not in use
* Having hair, hairy (cf. barbatus): adulescens bene capillatus,with a fine head of hair,Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 58; Suet. Vesp. 23: capillatior quam ante,Cic. Agr. 2, 5, 13.— As a designation of a primitive age (since the hair was not then shorn; v. barba and barbatus): (vinum) capillato diffusum consule, i.e. very old wine, Juv 5, 30.—Prov.: fronte capillată, post est occasio calva,Cato, Dist. 2, 26; cf. Phaedr. 5, 8, 1 sqq.—Subst.: căpillāti, ōrum, m., young aristocrats, Mart. 3, 57, 31.
* Capillata vel capillaris arbor, a tree on which the Vestal virgins suspended their shorn hair, Paul. ex Fest. p. 57 Müll.; cf. Plin. 16, 44, 85, § 235.
* Transf., of plants, consisting of slender fibres: radices,Plin. 19, 6, 31, § 98: folia,id. 16, 24, 38, § 90.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

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