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līmĕs (noun M) : root in līmus; cf. limen, and Gr. λέχρις; cf. Just. Inst. 1, 12, 5
* A cross-path, balk between fields.
* Lit., the Romans usually had in their fields two broad and two narrower paths; the principal balk from east to west was called limes decumanus; that from north to south was called cardo; of the two smaller ones, that running from east to west was called prorus, the other, from north to south, transversus,Hyg. de Limit. Const. 18, 33 and 34; Col. 1, 8, 7: lutosi limites,Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 8.
* Transf. (mostly poet.).
* Trop.
* A fortified boundaryline, a boundary-wall: cuncta inter castellum Alisonem ac Rhenum novis limitibus aggeribusque permunita,Tac. A. 2, 7: limite acto promotisque praesidiis,id. G. 29: penetrat interius, aperit limites, Vell. 2, 120.
* In gen., any path, passage, road, way; also, by-street, by-road: eo limite Athenienses signa extulerunt,Liv. 31, 39: profectus inde transversis limitibus,id. ib.: lato te limite ducam,Verg. A. 9, 323: acclivis,Ov. M. 2, 19: limite recto fugere,id. ib. 7, 782: transversi,by-roads,Liv. 22, 12, 2 Fabr.; 31, 39, 5; 41, 14 init.: limes Appiae, the line of the Appian street (for the street itself), id. 22, 15, 11: limite acto (i. e. facto),Tac. G. 29.— Of the channel of a stream: solito dum flumina currant Limite,Ov. M. 8, 558; Prop. 5, 9, 60.—Of the track of light left behind them by comets, fiery meteors, torches, etc.: flammiferumque trahens spatioso limite crinem, Stella micat,Ov. M. 15, 849: tum longo limite sulcus Dat lucem,Verg. A. 2, 697; Plin. 2, 26, 25, § 96: sectus in obliquo est lato curvamine limes,the zodiac,Ov. M. 2, 130: latum per agmen Ardens limitem agit ferro,Verg. A. 10, 514; cf. Sil. 4, 463; 9, 379; Stat. Th. 9, 182.
* A line or vein in a precious stone: nigram materiam distinguente limite albo,Plin. 37, 10, 69, § 184.
* A boundary, limit: limes carminis,Stat. Th. 1, 16: aestuat infelix angusto limite mundi,Juv. 10, 169.
* A distinction, difference: judicium brevi limite falle tuum,Ov. R. Am. 325: quaedam perquam tenui limite dividuntur,Quint. 9, 1, 3.
* A way, path: si maledicitis vostro gradiar limite,Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 18: bene meritis de patria quasi limes ad caeli aditum patet,Cic. Somn. Scip. 8; Sen. Ben. 1, 15, 2: eundem limitem agere,to go the same way, employ the same means,Ov. A. A. 3, 558.
* A cross-path, balk between fields.
* Lit., the Romans usually had in their fields two broad and two narrower paths; the principal balk from east to west was called limes decumanus; that from north to south was called cardo; of the two smaller ones, that running from east to west was called prorus, the other, from north to south, transversus,Hyg. de Limit. Const. 18, 33 and 34; Col. 1, 8, 7: lutosi limites,Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 8.
* Transf. (mostly poet.).
* Trop.
* A fortified boundaryline, a boundary-wall: cuncta inter castellum Alisonem ac Rhenum novis limitibus aggeribusque permunita,Tac. A. 2, 7: limite acto promotisque praesidiis,id. G. 29: penetrat interius, aperit limites, Vell. 2, 120.
* In gen., any path, passage, road, way; also, by-street, by-road: eo limite Athenienses signa extulerunt,Liv. 31, 39: profectus inde transversis limitibus,id. ib.: lato te limite ducam,Verg. A. 9, 323: acclivis,Ov. M. 2, 19: limite recto fugere,id. ib. 7, 782: transversi,by-roads,Liv. 22, 12, 2 Fabr.; 31, 39, 5; 41, 14 init.: limes Appiae, the line of the Appian street (for the street itself), id. 22, 15, 11: limite acto (i. e. facto),Tac. G. 29.— Of the channel of a stream: solito dum flumina currant Limite,Ov. M. 8, 558; Prop. 5, 9, 60.—Of the track of light left behind them by comets, fiery meteors, torches, etc.: flammiferumque trahens spatioso limite crinem, Stella micat,Ov. M. 15, 849: tum longo limite sulcus Dat lucem,Verg. A. 2, 697; Plin. 2, 26, 25, § 96: sectus in obliquo est lato curvamine limes,the zodiac,Ov. M. 2, 130: latum per agmen Ardens limitem agit ferro,Verg. A. 10, 514; cf. Sil. 4, 463; 9, 379; Stat. Th. 9, 182.
* A line or vein in a precious stone: nigram materiam distinguente limite albo,Plin. 37, 10, 69, § 184.
* A boundary, limit: limes carminis,Stat. Th. 1, 16: aestuat infelix angusto limite mundi,Juv. 10, 169.
* A distinction, difference: judicium brevi limite falle tuum,Ov. R. Am. 325: quaedam perquam tenui limite dividuntur,Quint. 9, 1, 3.
* A way, path: si maledicitis vostro gradiar limite,Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 18: bene meritis de patria quasi limes ad caeli aditum patet,Cic. Somn. Scip. 8; Sen. Ben. 1, 15, 2: eundem limitem agere,to go the same way, employ the same means,Ov. A. A. 3, 558.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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