(adjective) : gĕmĭnus, a, um, cf.: gener, genui (gigno)
* Born at the same time, twin-born, twin- (class.).
* Lit.
* Adj.: tibi sunt gemini et trigemini filii,Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 123: filios parere,id. Am. 5, 1, 36: C. et L. Fabricii fratres gemini fuerunt ex municipio Aletrinati,twin-brothers,Cic. Clu. 16, 46; v. frater: sorores,Ov. M. 4, 774; Hor. C. 4, 7, 5; cf.: soror gemina germana,Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 30: pueri,Verg. A. 8, 631: proles,id. ib. 1, 274: dei (i. e. Apollo and Diana), Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 16 Müll. (Trag. v. 425 Vahl.): partus,Liv. 1, 4, 2: Castor,i. e. Castor and Pollux,Ov. A. A. 1, 746; cf. Pollux,Hor. C. 3, 29, 64: nec gemino bellum Trojanum orditur ab ovo,i. e. from Helen, the twin-daughter of Leda,id. A. P. 147: fratres, Amphion atque Zethus,id. Ep. 1, 18, 41: Quirini,i. e. Romulus and Remus,Juv. 11, 105.—Comically in the sup.: To. Hic ejus geminust frater. Do. Hicine'st? To. Ac geminissimus, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 49.
* Transf.
* In partic.
* Gemini, as a constellation, The Twins (Castor and Pollux; acc. to others, Apollo and Hercules),Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 281; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 7; called also geminum astrum, Col. poët. 10, 312.
* Acc. to the Gr. δίδυμοι, the testicles, i. q. testiculi (late Lat.), Sol. 13; Amm. 16, 7.
* In gen., paired, double, two-fold, both, two, = duplex, duo: gemino lucernae lumine declarari, dissensionem et seditionem moveri,Cic. Div. 2, 58, 120; cf.: ex unis geminas mihi conficies nuptias,Ter. And. 4, 1, 51: et tripodes gemini,Verg. A. 9, 265: cum quaererent alii Numerium, alii Quintium, gemini nominis errore servatus est (Numerius Quintius),Cic. Sest. 38, 82: sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera, etc.,Verg. A. 6, 894: scopuli,id. ib. 1, 162; cf.: vos, geminae voragines rei publicae,Cic. Pis. 18, 41: huc geminas nunc flecte acies,your pair of eyes, both eyes,Verg. A. 6, 788: tempora,id. ib. 5, 416: nares,id. G. 4, 300: cornua (Eridani),id. ib. 4, 371: manus,Mart. 10, 10, 10: pedes,Ov. F. 2, 154; for which: pes,id. A. A. 2, 644: geminae (vites),Col. 3, 2, 10 (for which: gemellae vites,Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 21): aliae (percussiones numerorum) sunt geminae,double,Cic. de Or. 3, 47, 182; cf.: geminis vocalibus,Quint. 1, 7, 14: M gemina,id. ib. 8: geminique tulit Chironis in antrum, double-formed (half man, half horse), Ov. M. 2, 630; 6, 126; cf.: corpus Tritonis (half man and half fish),Stat. S. 3, 2, 35: Cecrops (acc. to a myth, half man and half serpent, or half man and half woman; or else as Egyptian and Greek),Ov. M. 2, 555: GEMINA LEGIO, a double legion (formed out of two legions), epithet of the tenth legion in Hispania, Inscr. Orell. 72 sq.; 1214; 2090; 3376 al. (for which: gemella legio,Caes. B. C. 3, 4, 1; cf. Tac. H. 2, 58): cum geminis exsurgit mensa lucernis, seen double by one in drink, Juv. 6, 305.
* Resembling, similar, like, as twins: VOLO, MI FRATER, FRATERCULO TUO CREDAS: consorti quidem in lucris atque in furtis, gemino et simillimo nequitia, improbitate, audaciā,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 66, § 155; cf.: Dolabella et Antonius ... ecce tibi geminum in scelere par,a twin-pair,id. Phil. 11, 1, 2; Varr. L. L. 9, § 92: par est avaritia, similis improbitas, eadem impudentia, gemina audacia,Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 118 fin.; cf. id. Rosc. Com. 18, 55: quae (memoria) est gemina litteraturae quodammodo et in dissimili genere persimilis,twin-sister,id. Part. 7, 26 (al. germana): illud vero geminum consiliis Catilinae et Lentuli, quod me domo mea expulistis, like, similar, id. Pis. 7, 16; cf.: ambobus geminus cupido laudis,Sil. 4, 99.

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