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3, 356, et al.; qir, 4, 278, et al.; a blast; ether, spirit, 6, 747; splendor, brightness, 6, 204; favor, applause, 6,816; pl., air, 1, 59, 387; ad auras, to or into the air, on high, upward. aurātus, a, um, adj. (aurum), gilded, golden, of gold, 12, 163; embroidered with gold, 5, 250.

aureus, a, um, adj. (aurum), of gold, golden, armed with gold, 11, 490; gilded, 6, 13; fig., beautiful, fair, 10, 16; perfectly pure and happy, golden, 6, 792.

auricomus, a, um, adj. (aurum and

coma), golden-haired; fig., goldenleaved, or with golden sprays, 6, 141. aurīga, ae, m., a charioteer, 5, 146; a groom, 12, 85.

a diviner; fig., a leader, author, patron, guide, director, 3, 20. auspicium, iï, n. (auspex), an auspice; omen, token, sign, 3, 499; power, authority, 4, 103; will, 4, 341; conduct, leadership, 11, 347. Auster, trī, m., the southerly or south wind, opposite to Aquilo; wind in general, 3, 70; meton., the south. ausum, i, see audeō. ausus, a, um, p. of audeō. aut, conj., indicating an actual and positive alternative, and not, like vel, leaving the choice to the mind; or, 1, 70, et al.; but sometimes used indifferently with vel, ve, sive, 1, 379; repeated: aut-aut, either—or, 1, 396, et al.

auris, is, f. (rel. to audio), the ear, 2, autem, conj. (rel. to aut), but, yet,

119, et al.

aurora, ae, f., the dawn, morning, 3, 521; personified, Aurora, the goddess of the dawn, who precedes the horses of the sun-god, 4, 585; the east, 8, 686; the sun, 6, 535.

aurum, i, n., gold, 1, 349, et al.; meton., a golden goblet, 7, 245; golden bit, 7, 279. Auruncus, a, um, adj. (Aurunca), Auruncan, of Aurunca, an ancient town of Campania, 12, 94. Ausonia, ae, f., an ancient name of middle and lower Italy; Italy, in general, 3, 496.

Ausonides, ae, pl. Ausonidae, ārum

and um, m. (Auson, the eponymous father of the Ausones), the Ausonians or primitive people of lower Italy; Italians, 10, 564. Ausonius, a, um, adj. (Auson), Ausonian; Italian, 4, 349; subst., Ausonii, ōrum, m., the Ausonians; Italians, 11, 253. auspex, icis, c. (avis and speciō, look), one who divines by watching birds;

however, truly, indeed, now, moreover, denoting contrast, difference, addition, or transition, freq. Automedōn, ontis, m., the charioteer of Achilles, and, after the death of Achilles, armor-bearer of Pyrrhus, 2, 477. autumnus, i, m. (cf. augeō), the season of increase; autumn, 6, 309, et al.

auxilium, iī, n. (augeō), that which

promotes; assistance, help, relief, succor, 1, 571; pl. auxilia, ōrum, help, assistance, 2, 163. avārus, a, um, adj. (aveō, desire), de

sirous of gain; greedy; covetous, avaricious, 1, 363; rapacious, devouring, fig., of the land ruled over by an avaricious prince, 3, 44. āvectus, a, um, p. of āvehō. āveho, vexī, vectus, 3, a., to carry

away, 2, 179; pass., āvectus esse, to have sailed away, departed, 2, 43. āvellō, velli or vulsī, vulsus, 3, a., to

pluck, or tear off, or away from, with acc. and abl., take away, steal,

2, 165; to force away, 11, 201; p., | avītus, a, um, adj. (avus), of a grandavulsus, a, um, torn from, 2, 608;

torn, rent, 3, 575.

avēna, ae, f., oats; oat-, a straw, an oaten pipe; a Pan-pipe or syrinx. 1. Aventinus, ī, m., a Latin chief, 7, 657.

2. Aventinus, ī, m., the Aventine mount in Rome, 7, 659.

1. Avernus, i, m.. (dopvos, birdless), Avernus, a lake near Naples, between Baiae and Cumae, in Campania, now Lago d' Averno. Near it was one of the entrances to Hades; hence, the lower world, Avernus, 6, 126; portus Averni, the harbor of Cumae, near Avernus, 5, 813.

2. Avernus, a, um, adj. (1. Avernus), of Avernus, Avernian, 4, 512; 6, 118; subst. pl., Averna, ōrum, n., Avernus, 3, 442.

āversus, a, um, p. of avertō. āvertō, verti, versus, 3, a., to turn anything away from, followed by an abl. with or without a prep., 1, 38, et al.; turn or drive away, I, 472, et al.; transfer with acc. of place, 4, 106; drive away, end, 4, 547; neut. by omission of se, to turn away, 1, 402; pass., averti, as middle or dep., with acc., to be averse to; to shun, loathe; p., āversus, a, um, turned away, I, 482; with averted faces, 6, 224; askance, 4, 362; remote, I, 568; fig., indignant, 7, 618; displeased, 2, 170.

avidus, a, um, adj. (aveō, desire), longing, eager, 1, 514; eagerly, quickly, 6, 210; with longing, 3, 132; eager for destruction, devouring, destructive, baneful; with infin., 12, 290; with gen., eagerly, desirous of, eager for, 9, 661.

avis, is, f., a bird, 6, 193, et al.

father; ancestral, ancient, 10, 752. āvius, a, um, adj. (ā and via), pathless, 2, 736; devious, unapproachable, 12, 480; that cannot be tracked, inaccessible, eluding pursuit, 11, 810; subst., āvium, iī, n., a devious, inaccessible place, or way, 9, 58. āvolō, āvī, ātus, I, n., to fly away, II, 712.

avulsus, a, um, p. of avellō. avunculus, ī, m. (avus), an uncle on the mother's side; uncle, 3, 343. avus, ī, m., a grandfather, grandsire,

2, 457; sire, father, ancestor, 6, 840. axis, is, m., an axle; synedoche, car, chariot, 5, 820; the axis of the heavens, the sky, the heavens, 4, 482; the pole; the north pole, the north.

B

bāca, ae, f., a berry, 3, 649. bācātus, a, um, adj. (bāca), set or

studded with pearls; or made of beads, pearls, etc., 1, 655. bacchor, ātus sum, I, dep. n. and a.

(Bacchus), to perform the orgies of Bacchus; rage, rave, 6, 78; rush or run madly or wildly, 4, 301; fly wildly, 4, 666; p., bacchātus, a, um, resounding with the revels of Bacchus, 3, 125; filling with fury, spreading fury, 10, 41.

Bacchus, i, m., Bacchus, the son of

Jupiter and Semele, and god of wine, 1, 734; wine, 1, 215. Bactra, ōrum, n. pl., Bactra, the chief city of Bactria, 8, 688.

Bāiae, ārum, f., Baiae, a town on the Bay of Naples, west of Puteoli, 9, 710.

Bālantēs, ium (um), see bālō. bālātus, ūs, m. (bālō), a bleating, 9, 565.

bālō, āvī, ātus, 1, n., to bleat; subst.,

flict; war, freq.; a battle, 8, 629; personified, Bellum, war, the demon of war, I, 294.

. bālāns, antis (sc. ovis), f.; pl., bālantēs, ium or um, sheep. balteus, i (gen. dissyl., 10, 496), a bēlua, ae, f., a beast, large, monstrous, or hideous, 6, 287.

belt, 5, 313.

barathrum, i, n., an abyss, chasm, Bēlus, i, m. 1. Belus, king of Tyre

gulf, 3, 421.

barba, ae, f., the beard, 3, 593. barbaricus, a, um, adj., foreign, barbaric, 2, 504.

barbarus, a, um, adj., barbarian, savage, 1, 539; foreign, barbaric, 11, 777; subst., barbarus, i, m., a barbarian, mercenary stranger, or sol

dier.

Barcaei, ōrum, m., the Barcaeans; people of Barce or Ptolemais, a town in Cyrenaica, 4, 43.

Barcē, es, f., the nurse of Sychaeus, 4, 632.

Batulum, ī, n., a Samnite town in

Campania, 7, 739.

beātus, a, um, see beō.

Bēbrycius, a, um, adj., Bebrycian, or Bithynian; of Bebrycia, a country in Asia Minor on the coast of Bithynia, 5, 373.

Bēlīdēs, ae, m., a son or male descend

ant of Belus, 2, 82. bellator, ōris, m. (bellō), a warrior,

11, 553; adj., warlike, 12, 614. bellatrix, īcis, f. (bellō), a female warrior; adj., warring, a warlike heroine, I, 493. bellipotēns, entis, adj. (bellum and

m.,

potēns), powerful in war; subst. the god of war, 11, 8. bellō, āvī, ātus, 1, n., and bellor, dep. I, n. (bellum), to wage war; fight, I, 466; dep., II, 660; subst., bellāns, antis, c. pl., bellantēs, ium or um, combatants, warriors, 1, 466. Bellōna, ae, f. (bellum), the goddess of

war, sister of Mars, Bellona, 7, 319. bellum, i, n. (duellum, cf. duo), con

and Sidon, and father of Dido, 1, 621. 2. The founder of the line of kings from whom Dido was descended, 1, 729.

Bēnācus, ī, m., a lake in Cisalpine Gaul, through which flows the Mincius, 10, 205.

bene, adv. (bonus), well, freq.; pleasantly, sweetly, wisely, safely; compar., melius, better, more, 1, 452. benignus, a, um, adj., of a kindly

spirit; benevolent, friendly, favorable, hospitable, 1, 304.

beō, āvī, ātus, I, a., to bless, make happy; p., beātus, a, um, blessed, happy, 1, 94.

Berecyntius, a, um, adj., pertaining to

Berecyntus, a mountain of Phrygia, sacred to Cybele, 6, 784.

Beroē, es, f., Beroë, the wife of Doryclus, an Epirote follower of Aeneas, 5, 620.

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sheep with two conspicuous teeth supplanting two of the milk-teeth; a sheep, 4, 57.

biforis, e, adj., having two doors or openings; twofold, double; of a double pipe with one mouth-piece, 9, 618.

bifōrmis, is, adj. (bis and fōrma), of

twofold shape or form, two-formed, 6, 25.

bifrons, frontis, adj., two-faced, doublefaced, 7, 180.

bīgae, ārum, f. pl. (bis and iugum), a team of two horses; a car or chariot drawn by two horses; a car, 2, 272; bīgīs in albis, in a chariot drawn by two white horses, 12, 164. biiugus, a, um, adj. (bis and iugum),

of a two-horse team or chariot; coupled, yoked, 10, 253; chariot-, 5, 144; subst. biiugī, ōrum, m., a double team or two-horse chariot, 10, 575. bilinguis, e, adj. (bis and lingua), double-tongued; fig., deceitful, treacherous, 1, 661.

bilix, īcis, adj. (bis and cf. licium, thread), two-threaded, double-plaited, 12, 375.

bimembris, is, adj. (bis and membrum), having two kinds of members; subst., bimembres, ium, m., Centaurs, 8, 293.

bīnī, ae, a, adj. num. distrib. (bis), two by two; two to each, 5, 61; poet. as cardinal, two, 1, 313, et al. bipatēns, entis, adj. (bis and pateō),

with twofold opening; with twofold or double doors, 2, 330. bipennis, e, adj. (bis and penna), twowinged; two-edged, 11, 135; subst., f., a two-edged ax, 2, 627; a battleax, 2, 479. birēmis, is, f. (bis and rēmus), a

boat with two oars, or ship with two

banks of oars; a galley or ship, I,

182.

bis, adv. (in composition bi-), twice, I, 381.

Bitias, ae, m. 1. Bitias, a Carthaginian nobleman, 1, 738. 2. A Trojan, 9, 672.

bivius, a, um, adj. (bis and via), leading two ways, 11, 516; subst., bivium, iī, n., the meeting of two roads; a crossway, 9, 238. blandus, a, um, adj., fondling; fawning; coaxing; persuasive, alluring, enticing, 1, 670; grateful, calm, 5, 827.

Bōla, ae, f., a town, of the Aequi in Latium, 6, 775.

bonus, a, um, adj., good, in every sense, freq.; friendly, kind, 1, 195; fit, valuable, proper, 5, 483; skillful, expert, able, nimble, 5, 430; auspicious, propitious, 1, 734; subst., bonum, i, n., a good thing; good; . blessing, happiness; comp., melior, ius, better, freq.; superior, 5, 68; greater, 9, 156; subst., melius, ōris, n., a better thing; melius est, it is better; in melius, for the better; to a better state, 11, 426; meliōra, um, better things, 12, 153; superl., optimus, a, um, best, freq. For the adv. melius, see bene. Boreas, ae, m., the north wind, 3, 687; the god of the north wind, Boreas, son of the river-god Strymon (others, the north), 10, 350.

bōs, bovis, c., an ox, 2, 306; bull, 5,

405; cow, 7, 663; heifer, 7, 790; pl., cattle, 3, 220. bracchium, ii, n., strictly, the forearm from the hand to the elbow; in general, the arm, 2, 792, et al.; fig., limb, branch, of a tree, 6, 282; sail-yard, 5, 829; of walls, 3, 535.

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bractea, ae, f., a thin plate of metal; | buxus, i, f., the box tree; meton., a

gold-foil, -leaf, 6, 209.

brevis, e, adj., short, of space, 3, 507; shallow, 5, 221; of time, brief, 10, 467; subst. pl., brevia, ium, n., shoals, I, III.

flute or pipe, 9, 619. Byrsa, ae, f., the citadel of Carthage, I, 367.

C

breviter, adv. (brevis), briefly; in few cacumen, inis, n., a point, peak; sum

words, 1, 561.

Briareus (trisyll.), eī, m., Briareus, or Aegaeon, one of the three Uranids, or sons of Uranus, giant monsters with a hundred (i.e. very many) hands, 6, 287.

Brontēs, ae, m., one of the Cyclops, in

the forge of Vulcan, 8, 425. brūma, ae, f., the winter solstice; winter, 2, 472.

brūmālis, e, adj. (brūma), of the win

ter; wintry, 6, 205.

Brūtus, i, m., a surname of the Junian gens, derived from Lucius Junius Brutus, the patrician leader who delivered Rome from the Tarquins, 6, 818,

mit, 3, 274.

Cācus, i, m., Cacus, the giant of the

Aventine, slain by Hercules, 8, 194. cadaver, eris, n. (cadō), a dead body, carcass, corpse, 8, 264.

cadō, cecidi, cāsus, 3, n., to fall, sink down, freq.; set, of the sun and stars, 2, 9; fall in battle, 2, 368; in sacrifice, I, 334; of the wind, subside, cease; of the sea, subside, be hushed, 1, 54; sink in death, die, 10, 390; to fall out, happen, 2, 709. caducus, a, um, adj. (cadō), liable to fall; destined, doomed to fall, or die, 10, 622; slain, 6, 481. cadus, i, m., a jar; wine-jar, 1, 195; an urn, 6, 228.

būbō, ōnis, m.; f. only once in Virgil, Caeculus, i, m., son of Vulcan, and

4, 462, an owl.

būcina, ae, f. a trumpet, 7, 519. būcolicus, a, um, adj., pertaining to herdsmen and shepherds, pastoral; subst., bucolica, ōrum, or ōn, n., pastoral poems, bucolics.

bulla, ae, f., something resembling a bubble; a boss, a stud, 9, 359. būstum, ī, n. (cf. combūrō), the mound where the dead have been burned; funeral pile, II, 201; tomb, 12, 863.

Būtēs, ae, m. 1. A descendant of Amycus, king of Bebrycia, 5, 372. 2. A Trojan, attendant of Ascanius, 9, 647. 3. A Trojan, 11, 690. Būthrōtum, ī, n., a town of Epirus,

opposite Corcyra, 3, 293. buxum, ī, n. (buxus), boxwood; meton., a top, 7, 382.

mythical founder of Praeneste, 7, 681.

caecus, a, um, adj., blind, freq.; blinded mentally, reckless, 1, 349; 11, 781; with fury, mad, 2, 357; of things which baffle or obstruct the sight or the mind, dark, 3, 200; hidden, covered, 1, 536; secret, private, 2, 453; from behind, 10, 733; uncertain or dim, 9, 518; uncertain, 6, 30; aimless, 4, 209; blinding, 12, 444; of uncertain origin, 12, 617; of sound, indistinct, subdued, 10, 98; obscure, 12, 591.

caedēs, is, f. (caedō), a cutting off or down; bloodshed, havoc, slaughter, I, 471, et al.; deadly blow, 2, 526; bloody attack, assault, 3, 256; blood, 9, 818; pl., caedēs, ium or um, slaughter, bloodshed, 11, 648, et al.

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