The corpus record — Latin

cereus

cereus · adj

waxen

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Satyrarum libri 3 · 2.11/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Epigrammata 8 · 1.42/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. cērĕus — Lewis & Short

cērĕus, a, um, adj.cera,

I waxen, of wax.

I Prop., Cic. N. D. 3, 12, 30: effigies, Hor. S. 1, 8, 30: imago, id. ib. 1, 8, 43; id. Epod. 17, 76; cf. id. Ep. 2, 1, 265: castra, cells of wax, honey-comb, Verg. A. 12, 589; cf. regna, waxen realms, id. G. 4, 202: simul acra, Ov. H. 6, 91.—

B Subst.: cē-rĕus, i, m. (sc. funis), a waxlight, wax taper, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 9; Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80; Sen. Ep. 122, 10; id. Brev. Vit. 20, 5; id. Tranq. 11, 7. Such waxlights were brought by clients to their patrons as presents at the time of the Saturnalia, Fest.s.v. cereos, p. 54 Müll.; Macr. S. 1, 7 and 11; Mart. 5, 18.—

II Meton.

A Wax-colored: pruna, Verg. E. 2, 53; cf. Ov. M. 13, 818: abolla, Mart. 4, 53: turtur, id. 3, 58: cerei coloris electrum, Plin. 37, 2, 11, § 33.—*

B Pliant, soft, like wax: bracchia Telephi, Hor. C. 1, 13, 2.—Hence,

C Trop., easily moved or persuaded: cereus in vitium flecti, Hor. A. P. 163.

2. cērĕus — Lewis & Short

cērĕus, i, m., v. 1. cereus, I. B.

In the wild

cereos Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 2.72
cerei Cicero, De Officiis 3.80.p1
cereique Martial, Epigrammata 5.18.2
cereis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9.13.11
cereis Suetonius, Divus Julius 84.3
Cerea Martial, Epigrammata 1.92.7

6 of 52 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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