căpax — Lewis & Short
căpax, ācis, adj.capio,
I that can contain or hold much, wide, large, spacious, roomy, capacious (in poets and in post-Aug. prose freq.; in Cic. perh. only once, and then trop; v. infra).
I Lit.: mundus, * Lucr. 6, 123:
conchae,Hor. C. 2, 7, 22:
urna,id. ib. 3, 1, 16; Ov. M. 3, 172:
capaciores scyphos,Hor. Epod. 9, 33:
pharetram,Ov. M. 9, 231:
putei,id. ib. 7, 568:
urbs,id. ib. 4, 439:
ripae,id. Am. 3, 6, 19:
uterus,Plin. 10, 33, 49, § 93:
portus,id. 4, 7, 12, § 26:
spatiosa et capax domus,Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 5:
villa usibus capax,id. ib. 2, 17, 4:
forma capacissima,Quint. 1, 10, 40:
moles,Tac. A. 2, 21.—With gen.:
circus capax populi,Ov. A. A. 1, 136:
cibi vinique capacissimus,Liv. 9, 16, 13:
flumen onerariarum navium capax,Plin. 6, 23, 26, § 99; 12, 1, 5, § 11:
magnae sedis insula haud capax est,Curt. 4, 8, 2.—
II Trop.
A Capacious, susceptible, capable of, good, able, apt, fit for: Demosthenes non semper implet aures meas: ita sunt avidae et capaces, etc., * Cic. Or. 29, 104:
ingenium,great, Ov. M. 8, 533:
animi ad praecepta,id. ib. 8, 243:
animo majora capaci,id. ib. 15, 5:
capax est animus noster,Sen. Ep. 92, 30.—With gen.:
animal mentis capacius altae (i.e. homo),Ov. M. 1, 76:
imperii,Tac. H. 1, 49; cf. id. A. 1, 13:
aetas honorum nondum capax,id. H. 4, 42:
molis tantae mens,id. A. 1,11: secreti, that can keep or conceal, Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 7:
capacia bonae spei pectora,Curt. 8, 13, 11:
magnorum operum,id. 6, 5, 29:
ingenium omnium bonarum artium capacissimum,Sen. Contr. 2, praef. §
4: cujusque clari operis capacia ingenia,Vell. 1, 16, 2:
bonum et capax recta discendi ingenium,id. 2, 29, 5:
laboris ac fidei,id. 2, 127, 3:
ingenia fecunda et totius naturae capacissima,Plin. 2, 78, 80, § 190:
doli,fit, suitable for, Dig. 43, 4, 1.—
B In the Lat. of the jurists (cf. capio, II. F.), that has a right to an inheritance, Dig. 34, 3, 29.—Adv.: căpācĭter, Aug. Trin. 11, 2.