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(adjective) : marmŏrĕus, a, um, marmor
* Made or consisting of marble, marble-.
* Lit. (class.): signum aëneum, marmoreum, eburneum,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 1, § 1: tecta,id. Par. 1, 3, 13: solum,a floor,id. ib. 6, 3, 49: facere aliquem marmoreum, to make of marble, i. e. as a marble statue, Verg. E. 7, 35: ponere aliquem marmoreum,Hor. C. 4, 1, 20: colossus,Juv. 8, 230: villa,id. 4, 112.
* Transf.
* Of or pertaining to marble, marble- (very rare): ars,Vitr. 4, 1.
* Resembling marble (in whiteness or smoothness), marble-like, marble- (mostly poet.): pectus, Lucil. ap. Non. 391, 26: cervix,Verg. G. 4, 523: pollex,Ov. M. 13, 746: palmae,id. ib. 3, 481: pedes,id. Am. 2, 11, 15: manus,Mart. 8, 56, 14: candor,marblewhiteness,Lucr. 2, 765: color,i. e. whiteness,id. 2, 775: Paros (from its famous marble quarries),Ov. M. 7, 465: gelu,id. F. 4. 918: aequor,Verg. A. 6, 729.
* Adorned with statues: Lucanus in hortis marmoreis,Juv. 7, 80.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

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