(adjective) : silvestris (silvester, Plin. 14, 16, 19, § 110; Col. 1, praef. 25; Sen. Hippol. 460; also written sylv-), e (collat. form, dat. SILVANO SILVESTRO, Inscr. Orell. 4990;
* Gen. plur. sync. silvestrum, Att. Trag. Rel. v. 256 Rib.), silva.
* Of or belonging to a wood or forest, overgrown with woods, wooded, woody (class.; syn. saltuosus): collis silvestris,Caes. B. G. 2, 18: mons,Varr. R. R. 1, 12, 1; Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132: locus,id. Lael. 19, 68; Caes. B. G. 5, 19; 6, 34; 7, 35; Liv. 27, 26, 7: saltus,Curt. 4, 3, 21: antra,Ov. M. 13, 47: ager,Col. 11, 2, 52; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 186: via (with inculta),Cic. Brut. 74, 259: silvestris et montuosus situs (opp. campestris),Col. 7, 2, 3: silvestria saecla ferarum,Lucr. 5, 965; cf. id. 5, 1410: belua,i. e. a she-wolf,Cic. Rep. 2, 2, 4; hence also: uber,i. e. of a she-wolf,Prop. 3, 9 (4, 8), 51: homines,living in woods, foresters,Hor. A. P. 391: numen, sphinx,Plin. 36, 12, 17, § 77 (Jahn reads de quā siluere): bellum,Lucr. 5, 1244: silvestri nata sub umbrā fraga,Ov. M. 13, 815: silvestria virgulta, i. e. foresttrees (opp. prolem olivae), Verg. G. 2, 2.— Subst.: silvestrĭa, ĭum, woodlands, forest: an culta ex silvestribus facere potui,Liv. 38, 49, 7; Plin. 25, 7, 33, § 70.
* Transf.
* Of plants and animals, growing wild, wild: tauri,Plin. 8, 21, 30, § 74: arietes (with feri),Col. 7, 2, 4: gallinae,id. 7, 8, 12: arbor,Verg. E. 3, 70: arbores silvestres ac ferae,Col. 3, 1, 2: pruni,id. 2, 2, 20: faba,Plin. 18, 12, 30, § 121: mel,id. 11, 16, 15, § 41; Vulg. Matt. 3, 4: cicer,Plin. 22, 25, 72, § 148: oliva,Ov. M. 2, 681: corna,Hor. S. 2, 2, 57 et saep.—Comp.: silvestriora omnia tardiora,Plin. 16, 27, 50, § 116; 22, 25, 71, § 146.
* In gen., for agrestis, sylvan, rural, pastoral (poet.): Musa,Lucr. 4, 589; Verg. E. 1, 2 (for which, agrestis, id. ib. 6, 8): truculentus et silvester,Sen. Hippol. 461.