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sŭper-cĭlĭum (noun N) : super and root kal-; Gr. καλύπτω; Lat. celāre, to hide, cover; cf. Gr. κύλον, ἐπικύλιον, eyelid; cf. also, Ang.-Sax. hlid; Engl. lid; Germ. Augenlid:
* Cilium est folliculus, quo oculus tegitur, unde fit supercilium,Fest. p. 43 Müll.; Plin. 11, 37, 57, § 157.
* Lit., the eye-brow (good prose; more freq. in the plur.).
* Plur.: ex superciliorum aut remissione aut contractione facile judicabimus, etc.,Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146: supercilia abrasa,id. Rosc. Com. 7, 20: superiora superciliis obducta sudorem a capite defluentem depellunt,id. N. D. 2, 57, 143: nec sedeo duris torva superciliis,Ov. H. 16 (17), 16: constricta,Quint. 1, 11, 10: torta,Plaut. Rud. 2, 2, 12: conjuncta,Suet. Aug. 79: usque ad malarum scripturam currentia,Petr. 126; Plin. 11, 37, 51, § 138: balenae,id. 9, 62, 88, § 186; Quint. 11, 3, 78; 11, 3, 79; 11, 3, 160: mulieres potissimum supercilia sua attribuerunt ei deae (Junoni Lucinae),Varr. L. L. 5, § 69 Müll.; cf. Fest. p. 305 ib.
* Trop.
* Transf., the prominent part of a thing, the brow, ridge, summit (not ante-Aug.): clivosi tramitis,Verg. G. 1, 108: tumuli,Liv. 34, 29, 11: infimo stare supercilio,at the bottom of the projection,id. 27, 18, 10; cf. Stat. Th. 6, 63: supercilium quoddam excelsum nacti, Auct. B. Afr. 58, 1; Plin. 6, 5, 5, § 17.—In archit., a projecting moulding over the scotia of a column or cornice, Vitr. 3, 3 med.; a threshold, id. 4, 6, 5.—Of the coast of the sea: supercilia ejus sinistra,Amm. 22, 8, 8; the shore of a river: Nili,id. 14, 8, 5: Rheni,id. 14, 10, 6: fluminis,id. 17, 9, 1: amnis,App. M. 5, p. 169, 34.
* The nod, the will: cuncta supercilio movens,Hor. C. 3, 1, 8; Claud. Ep. ad Ser. 2, 58.
* Pride, haughtiness, arrogance, sternness, superciliousness (class.; mostly sing.): supercilium ac regius spiritus,Cic. Agr. 2, 34, 93; id. Sest. 8, 19; id. Red. in Sen. 7, 14; Sen. Ben. 2, 4, 1; Juv. 6, 169; 5, 62: triste Catonis,Mart. 11, 2, 1: pone supercilium,id. 1, 5, 2: supercilii matrona severi,Ov. Tr. 2, 309; cf.: contegere libidines fronte et supercilio, non pudore et temperantiā,Cic. Prov. Cons. 4, 8.
* Cilium est folliculus, quo oculus tegitur, unde fit supercilium,Fest. p. 43 Müll.; Plin. 11, 37, 57, § 157.
* Lit., the eye-brow (good prose; more freq. in the plur.).
* Plur.: ex superciliorum aut remissione aut contractione facile judicabimus, etc.,Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146: supercilia abrasa,id. Rosc. Com. 7, 20: superiora superciliis obducta sudorem a capite defluentem depellunt,id. N. D. 2, 57, 143: nec sedeo duris torva superciliis,Ov. H. 16 (17), 16: constricta,Quint. 1, 11, 10: torta,Plaut. Rud. 2, 2, 12: conjuncta,Suet. Aug. 79: usque ad malarum scripturam currentia,Petr. 126; Plin. 11, 37, 51, § 138: balenae,id. 9, 62, 88, § 186; Quint. 11, 3, 78; 11, 3, 79; 11, 3, 160: mulieres potissimum supercilia sua attribuerunt ei deae (Junoni Lucinae),Varr. L. L. 5, § 69 Müll.; cf. Fest. p. 305 ib.
* Trop.
* Transf., the prominent part of a thing, the brow, ridge, summit (not ante-Aug.): clivosi tramitis,Verg. G. 1, 108: tumuli,Liv. 34, 29, 11: infimo stare supercilio,at the bottom of the projection,id. 27, 18, 10; cf. Stat. Th. 6, 63: supercilium quoddam excelsum nacti, Auct. B. Afr. 58, 1; Plin. 6, 5, 5, § 17.—In archit., a projecting moulding over the scotia of a column or cornice, Vitr. 3, 3 med.; a threshold, id. 4, 6, 5.—Of the coast of the sea: supercilia ejus sinistra,Amm. 22, 8, 8; the shore of a river: Nili,id. 14, 8, 5: Rheni,id. 14, 10, 6: fluminis,id. 17, 9, 1: amnis,App. M. 5, p. 169, 34.
* The nod, the will: cuncta supercilio movens,Hor. C. 3, 1, 8; Claud. Ep. ad Ser. 2, 58.
* Pride, haughtiness, arrogance, sternness, superciliousness (class.; mostly sing.): supercilium ac regius spiritus,Cic. Agr. 2, 34, 93; id. Sest. 8, 19; id. Red. in Sen. 7, 14; Sen. Ben. 2, 4, 1; Juv. 6, 169; 5, 62: triste Catonis,Mart. 11, 2, 1: pone supercilium,id. 1, 5, 2: supercilii matrona severi,Ov. Tr. 2, 309; cf.: contegere libidines fronte et supercilio, non pudore et temperantiā,Cic. Prov. Cons. 4, 8.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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