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laureus
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Lewis Short
(adjective) : laurĕus, a, um, id.
* Of laurel, laurel-.
* Adj.: vectes laurei,Cato, R. R. 31: folia,id. ib. 76: corona,Liv. 23, 11: in nitidā laurea serta comā,Ov. Tr. 2, 172: oleum,laurel-oil,Plin. 20, 13, 51, § 137: ramus,id. 15, 30, 40, § 136: ramulus,Suet. Caes. 81: pira,i. e. that smell like laurel,Col. 12, 10: cerasa,grafted on laurel,Plin. 15, 25, 30, § 104: nemus,Mart. 10, 92, 11.
* Subst.: laurĕa, ae, f.
* (Sc. arbor.) The laurel-tree: laurea in puppi navis longae enata,Liv. 32, 1: tum spissa ramis laurea fervidos Excludet ictus,Hor. C. 2, 15, 9: factis modo laurea ramis annuit,Ov. M. 1, 566: ex Pannonia,Plin. Pan. 8, 3.
* (Sc. corona.) A laurel crown or garland, laurel branch, as the ornament of Apollo, of poets, of ancestral images, of generals enjoying a triumph, and of letters containing news of a victory: te precor, o vates, assit tua laurea nobis,Ov. R. Am. 75: laureā donandus Apollinari,Hor. C. 4, 2, 9: cedant arma togae, concedat laurea linguae, Cic. poët. Off. 1, 22, 77: quam lauream cum tua laudatione conferam,id. Fam. 15, 6, 1. Sometimes victorious generals, instead of a triumphal procession, contented themselves with carrying a laurel branch to the Capitol: de Cattis Dacisque duplicem triumphum egit: de Sarmatis lauream modo Capitolino Jovi retulit,Suet. Dom. 6: urbem praetextatus et laurea coronatus intravit,id. Tib. 17; id. Ner. 13; Plin. Pan. 8: thyrsus enim vobis, gestata est laurea nobis,Ov. P. 2, 5, 67: bellorum laureas victori tradens,Just. 14, 4, 17.
* Trop., a victory, triumph: primus in toga triumphum linguaeque lauream merite,Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 117; cf.: parite laudem et lauream,Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 53.
* Of laurel, laurel-.
* Adj.: vectes laurei,Cato, R. R. 31: folia,id. ib. 76: corona,Liv. 23, 11: in nitidā laurea serta comā,Ov. Tr. 2, 172: oleum,laurel-oil,Plin. 20, 13, 51, § 137: ramus,id. 15, 30, 40, § 136: ramulus,Suet. Caes. 81: pira,i. e. that smell like laurel,Col. 12, 10: cerasa,grafted on laurel,Plin. 15, 25, 30, § 104: nemus,Mart. 10, 92, 11.
* Subst.: laurĕa, ae, f.
* (Sc. arbor.) The laurel-tree: laurea in puppi navis longae enata,Liv. 32, 1: tum spissa ramis laurea fervidos Excludet ictus,Hor. C. 2, 15, 9: factis modo laurea ramis annuit,Ov. M. 1, 566: ex Pannonia,Plin. Pan. 8, 3.
* (Sc. corona.) A laurel crown or garland, laurel branch, as the ornament of Apollo, of poets, of ancestral images, of generals enjoying a triumph, and of letters containing news of a victory: te precor, o vates, assit tua laurea nobis,Ov. R. Am. 75: laureā donandus Apollinari,Hor. C. 4, 2, 9: cedant arma togae, concedat laurea linguae, Cic. poët. Off. 1, 22, 77: quam lauream cum tua laudatione conferam,id. Fam. 15, 6, 1. Sometimes victorious generals, instead of a triumphal procession, contented themselves with carrying a laurel branch to the Capitol: de Cattis Dacisque duplicem triumphum egit: de Sarmatis lauream modo Capitolino Jovi retulit,Suet. Dom. 6: urbem praetextatus et laurea coronatus intravit,id. Tib. 17; id. Ner. 13; Plin. Pan. 8: thyrsus enim vobis, gestata est laurea nobis,Ov. P. 2, 5, 67: bellorum laureas victori tradens,Just. 14, 4, 17.
* Trop., a victory, triumph: primus in toga triumphum linguaeque lauream merite,Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 117; cf.: parite laudem et lauream,Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 53.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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