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Lewis Short
ŏpĭfex (noun Comm) : opus-facio, one who does a work.
* Lit., a worker, maker, framer, fabricator (class.; cf.: faber, artifex. operarius).
* In gen.: opifex aedificatorque mundi deus,Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 18: rerum or aeternus,Col. 3, 10, 10; cf.: opifex natura,Plin. 31, 1, 1, § 1: calor,Lact. 2, 9, 22: sylvestres apes,Varr. R. R. 3, 16.
* Trop.: verborum,Cic. Tusc. 5, 12, 34: dicens esse rhetoricen persuadendi opificem, id est πειθοῦς δημιουργόν, Quint. 2, 15, 4.— Poet. with inf.: mire opifex ... marem strepitum fidis intendisse Latinae,Pers. 6, 3.
* Lit., a worker, maker, framer, fabricator (class.; cf.: faber, artifex. operarius).
* In gen.: opifex aedificatorque mundi deus,Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 18: rerum or aeternus,Col. 3, 10, 10; cf.: opifex natura,Plin. 31, 1, 1, § 1: calor,Lact. 2, 9, 22: sylvestres apes,Varr. R. R. 3, 16.
* Trop.: verborum,Cic. Tusc. 5, 12, 34: dicens esse rhetoricen persuadendi opificem, id est πειθοῦς δημιουργόν, Quint. 2, 15, 4.— Poet. with inf.: mire opifex ... marem strepitum fidis intendisse Latinae,Pers. 6, 3.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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