con-sanguĭnĕus | consanguĭnĕ-us, i | consanguĭnĕa, ae | consanguĭ-nĕi, ōrum (noun M.f) : (
* Gen. plur. consanguineūm, Lucr. 3, 73), adj., springing from the same blood, related by blood.
* In a restricted sense, of brothers and sisters, brotherly, sisterly (so mostly poet.): umbrae,Ov. M. 8, 476: turba,id. H. 14, 121: scelus,Stat. Th. 11, 407: angues,i. e. born with her, kindred,id. ib. 11, 61: acies,Claud. in Rufin. 2, 237.—Of animals: arietes, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44 (Praetext. v. 21 Rib.). —Of abstract subjects: caritas ( = benevolentia fraterna),Val. Max. 5, 5, 3; cf. scelus,Stat. Th. 11, 407.—Subst.: , , m., a brother, Cic. Att. 2, 23, 3; and , , f., a sister, Cat. 64, 118.
* In a more gen. sense, related, kindred: homines,Caes. B. C. 1, 74: Turnus,Verg. A. 7, 366: Roma,Sil. 1, 608: dextra,id. 1, 655. —Esp. freq. as subst. plur.: , , kindred, relations, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 77; Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 35; Caes. B. G. 1, 11; 1, 33; Suet. Caes. 81; id. Claud. 25.—General senses, related, kindred (so most freq. in prose and poetry), Lucr. 3, 73; 6, 1282; cf. Dig. 38, 16, 1.
* Poet., transf.: consanguineus Leti Sopor,Verg. A. 6, 278 (in acc. with Hom. Il. ξ, 231: Ὕπνος κασίγνητος Θανάτοιο).—*
* Trop.: res rustica proxima et quasi consanguinea sapientiae,Col. 1, prooem. § 4.

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