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semifer
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Lewis Short
(adjective) : sēmĭ-fer, fĕra, fĕrum, ferus
* Halfbestial, half man and half beast.
* Lit.: semifer interea divinae stirpis alumno Laetus erat,i. e. the Centaur Chiron,Ov. M. 2, 633; so of the Centaurs,id. ib. 12, 406; Stat. Th. 9, 220; Luc. 6, 386: caput Panis, Lucr. 4, 587: pectus (Tritonis),Verg. A. 10, 212: corpus Capricorni (because half goat and half fish),Cic. Arat. 59 Orell. N. cr.: species hominum (with portenta),Lucr. 2, 702 et saep.
* Trop., half-wild, half-savage: (Cacus),Verg. A. 8, 267 (for which, semihomo, id. ib. 194): glires semiferum animal,Plin. 8, 57, 82, § 224: proles (canis),Grat. Cyn. 253: genus hominum,Plin. 6, 19, 22, § 66; Sil. 3, 542.
* Halfbestial, half man and half beast.
* Lit.: semifer interea divinae stirpis alumno Laetus erat,i. e. the Centaur Chiron,Ov. M. 2, 633; so of the Centaurs,id. ib. 12, 406; Stat. Th. 9, 220; Luc. 6, 386: caput Panis, Lucr. 4, 587: pectus (Tritonis),Verg. A. 10, 212: corpus Capricorni (because half goat and half fish),Cic. Arat. 59 Orell. N. cr.: species hominum (with portenta),Lucr. 2, 702 et saep.
* Trop., half-wild, half-savage: (Cacus),Verg. A. 8, 267 (for which, semihomo, id. ib. 194): glires semiferum animal,Plin. 8, 57, 82, § 224: proles (canis),Grat. Cyn. 253: genus hominum,Plin. 6, 19, 22, § 66; Sil. 3, 542.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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