marmor — Lewis & Short
marmor, ŏris (also marmur; m., n.root mar-, gleam, glimmer (v. mare), the white or gleaming stone; cf. margarita, = ma/rmaros,
plur. marmura, Antonius Gripho ap. Quint. 1, 6, 23; abl. marmori, Corp. Inscr. L. 1012; Plin. Val. 3, 14),I marble.
I Lit.:
in omni marmore,Cic. Div. 2, 21, 48:
Parium marmor,Quint. 2, 19, 3; 5, 11, 30:
tu secanda marmora Locas,Hor. C. 2, 18, 17:
templum de marmore ponam,Verg. G. 3, 13; cf.:
vivos ducent de marmore vultus,id. A. 6, 848:
parietes crusta marmoris operire totius domus,Plin. 36, 6, 7, § 48:
A MARMORIBVS,one whose office it was to superintend the purchasing and working of marble, Inscr. Grut. 593, 7:
marmora,kinds of marble, Sen. Ep. 100, 5; Plin. 36, 7, 11, § 54; 36, 16, 25, § 126; but blocks or pieces of marble, Hor. l. l.; Luc. 10, 114; Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 160; 36, 1, 1, § 2; Quint. 5, 11, 30; Mart. 5, 22, 8; v. infra.—
II Transf.
A Pulverized marble, marble-dust, Cato, R. R. 2, 3; Col. 12, 20 fin.; Plin. 14, 19, 24, § 120; 23, 1, 24, § 45.—
B A marble, i. e.,
1 A piece of wrought marble, marble statue, etc.:
Praxiteles marmore nobilitatus est Gnidiaque Venere,Plin. 7, 38, 39, § 127; Hor. C. 4, 8, 13; Ov. M. 5, 234; 12, 487:
duo marmora,id. ib. 7, 790; cf.:
lacrimas marmora manant,id. ib. 6, 312; so plur., Sen. Ep. 90, 26; Plin. 12, 1, 5, § 9; 33, 7, 40, § 122; Stat. Silv. 1, 3, 36; Juv. 1, 12; 14, 40 et saep.—
2 A building of marble, Mart. 8, 3, 6; 10, 63, 1.—
3 In plur., a marble pavement, Mart. 10, 2, 9; 12, 60, 12; Claud. ap. Eutr. 2, 360; Juv. 6, 430.—
C A mile-stone of marble:
rus marmore tertio notatum,i. e. three miles from town, Mart. 7, 31, 10.—
D A marble slab upon a sideboard, Juv. 3, 205.—
E A hard, stony tumor in the joints of the horse:
plerumque in genibus aut phlegmon oritur, aut marmora,Veg. Vet. 2, 48, 1:
tumor obduratione convertitur in marmor,id. ib. 2, 48, 10.—
F Stone in gen., Ov. M. 5, 214; 11, 404:
flumen inducit marmora rebus,incrusts, id. ib. 15, 314.—
G Poet., the bright level surface of the sea; hence, the surface of the sea, the sea in gen.: verrunt extemplo placide mare marmore flavo, Enn. ap. Gell. 2, 26, 21 (Ann. v. 377 Vahl.); Lucr. 2, 767:
lento luctantur marmore tonsae,Verg. A. 7, 28; id. G. 1, 254:
Libycum,id. A. 7, 718:
spumant vada marmore verso,id. ib. 10, 208:
marmora pelagi,Cat. 63, 88:
infidum,Sil. 14, 464:
medium,the surface of a lake, Val. Fl. 6, 568.