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frāter (noun M) : Sanscr. bhrātā; Gr. φράτηρ, φράτωρ, clansman; Goth. brothar; Engl. brother
* A brother.
* Lit.: frater mi, salve,Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 58; cf.: mi frater, mi frater, mi frater, tune id veritus es? etc.,Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 1: amabo te, mi frater, ne, etc.,id. ib. 1, 4, 1: L. frater meus,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 11, § 25: uxores habent inter se communes: et maxime fratres cum fratribus,Caes. B. G. 5, 14, 4; cf.: fratrem a fratre renuntiatum,id. ib. 7, 33, 3: et filius et fratris filius,id. ib. 5, 27, 2: fratris filia,Plin. Ep. 8, 11, 1: fratres gemini,twin-brothers,Cic. Clu. 16, 46; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 41: fratres gemelli,Ov. H. 8, 77; also in the reverse order: gemini fratres,Cic. Div. 2, 43, 90; Liv. 1, 5, 6; Suet. Caes. 10; Verg. A. 7, 670; Ov. H. 17, 250 (and therefore wrongly censured by Quint.: quaedam ordine permutato fiunt supervacua, ut fratres gemini: nam si praecesserint gemini, fratres addere non est necesse,Quint. 9, 4, 24).— Also in sing.: To. Hic ejus geminus est frater. Do. Hiccine'st? To. Ac geminissimus. Do. Di deaeque et te et geminum fratrem excrucient, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 49 sq.: venimus fratrem quaesitum geminum germanum meum,my full twin-brother,id. Men. 2, 1, 7; cf.: spes mihi est, vos inventuros fratres germanos duos Geminos, una matre natos et patre uno uno die,id. ib. 5, 9, 43: Cn. Phaenius ... frater germanus Q. Titinii,full brother, own brother,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 49, § 128; id. Font. 17, 36: fratres uterini,brothers by the same mother, uterine brothers,Cod. Just. 5, 62, 21: fratribus illa (templa) deis fratres de gente deorum Circa Juturnae composuere lacus, the brothers of a race of gods (Tiberius and Drusus), descended from the divine brothers (Castor and Pollux), Ov. F. 1, 707.—Of the giants: fratresque tendentes opaco Pelion imposuisse Olympo,Hor. C. 3, 4, 51: conjurati fratres,Verg. G. 1, 280.—Poet. of dogs: et Thous et Cyprio velox cum fratre Lycisca,Ov. M. 3, 220; Grat. Cyneg. 299.
* Transf.
* Like our word brother, as a familiar appellation of friends and lovers.
* Of things of a like kind (so, too, the Gr. ὰδελφός; cf. also soror): aspicies illic positos ex ordine fratres (i. e. libros),Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 107; so Mart. 12, 3, 6.—As a proper name: (In Mauretania) montes sunt alti, qui ... ob numerum Septem, ob similitudinem Fratres nuncupantur,Mel. 1, 5, 5; Plin. 5, 2, 1, § 18; Sol. 25 (in Ptolemy, Ἑπτὰ ἀδελφοί; cf. Mann. Afr. 2, p. 459).
* Fratres for brother and sister (as also the Gr. ἀδελφοί): Lucius et Titia fratres emancipati a patre,Dig. 10, 2, 38: tres fratres, Titius, Naevius et Seia,ib. 2, 14, 35: fratrum incestus, amor,Tac. A. 12, 4: INFANTIBVS HILARIONI ET REVOCATAE FRATRIBVS,Inscr. Orell. 4583.
* Like Gr. ἀδελφός, of near kindred.
* In publicists' lang., an honorary title given to allies: Aedui, fratres consanguineique saepenumero a senatu appellati,Caes. B. G. 1, 32, 2; 2, 3, 5: non modo hostes, sed etiam fratres nostri Aedui,Cic. Fam. 7, 10 fin.: Aedui fratres nostri pugnant,id. Att. 1, 19, 2 (cf. fraternitas).
* Fratres Arvales, a college of priests; v. arvalis.
* Frater Solis et Lunae, the title of the Parthian kings, Amm. 17, 5; 23, 5.
* A brother.
* Lit.: frater mi, salve,Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 58; cf.: mi frater, mi frater, mi frater, tune id veritus es? etc.,Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 1: amabo te, mi frater, ne, etc.,id. ib. 1, 4, 1: L. frater meus,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 11, § 25: uxores habent inter se communes: et maxime fratres cum fratribus,Caes. B. G. 5, 14, 4; cf.: fratrem a fratre renuntiatum,id. ib. 7, 33, 3: et filius et fratris filius,id. ib. 5, 27, 2: fratris filia,Plin. Ep. 8, 11, 1: fratres gemini,twin-brothers,Cic. Clu. 16, 46; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 41: fratres gemelli,Ov. H. 8, 77; also in the reverse order: gemini fratres,Cic. Div. 2, 43, 90; Liv. 1, 5, 6; Suet. Caes. 10; Verg. A. 7, 670; Ov. H. 17, 250 (and therefore wrongly censured by Quint.: quaedam ordine permutato fiunt supervacua, ut fratres gemini: nam si praecesserint gemini, fratres addere non est necesse,Quint. 9, 4, 24).— Also in sing.: To. Hic ejus geminus est frater. Do. Hiccine'st? To. Ac geminissimus. Do. Di deaeque et te et geminum fratrem excrucient, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 49 sq.: venimus fratrem quaesitum geminum germanum meum,my full twin-brother,id. Men. 2, 1, 7; cf.: spes mihi est, vos inventuros fratres germanos duos Geminos, una matre natos et patre uno uno die,id. ib. 5, 9, 43: Cn. Phaenius ... frater germanus Q. Titinii,full brother, own brother,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 49, § 128; id. Font. 17, 36: fratres uterini,brothers by the same mother, uterine brothers,Cod. Just. 5, 62, 21: fratribus illa (templa) deis fratres de gente deorum Circa Juturnae composuere lacus, the brothers of a race of gods (Tiberius and Drusus), descended from the divine brothers (Castor and Pollux), Ov. F. 1, 707.—Of the giants: fratresque tendentes opaco Pelion imposuisse Olympo,Hor. C. 3, 4, 51: conjurati fratres,Verg. G. 1, 280.—Poet. of dogs: et Thous et Cyprio velox cum fratre Lycisca,Ov. M. 3, 220; Grat. Cyneg. 299.
* Transf.
* Like our word brother, as a familiar appellation of friends and lovers.
* Of things of a like kind (so, too, the Gr. ὰδελφός; cf. also soror): aspicies illic positos ex ordine fratres (i. e. libros),Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 107; so Mart. 12, 3, 6.—As a proper name: (In Mauretania) montes sunt alti, qui ... ob numerum Septem, ob similitudinem Fratres nuncupantur,Mel. 1, 5, 5; Plin. 5, 2, 1, § 18; Sol. 25 (in Ptolemy, Ἑπτὰ ἀδελφοί; cf. Mann. Afr. 2, p. 459).
* Fratres for brother and sister (as also the Gr. ἀδελφοί): Lucius et Titia fratres emancipati a patre,Dig. 10, 2, 38: tres fratres, Titius, Naevius et Seia,ib. 2, 14, 35: fratrum incestus, amor,Tac. A. 12, 4: INFANTIBVS HILARIONI ET REVOCATAE FRATRIBVS,Inscr. Orell. 4583.
* Like Gr. ἀδελφός, of near kindred.
* In publicists' lang., an honorary title given to allies: Aedui, fratres consanguineique saepenumero a senatu appellati,Caes. B. G. 1, 32, 2; 2, 3, 5: non modo hostes, sed etiam fratres nostri Aedui,Cic. Fam. 7, 10 fin.: Aedui fratres nostri pugnant,id. Att. 1, 19, 2 (cf. fraternitas).
* Fratres Arvales, a college of priests; v. arvalis.
* Frater Solis et Lunae, the title of the Parthian kings, Amm. 17, 5; 23, 5.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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