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marmoreus

marmoreus · adj

made

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 5 · 14.41/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
Divus Claudius 3 · 4.7/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 2 · 4.65/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
De Architectura 16 · 2.77/10k
Elegiae 3 · 2.43/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k

Densest 12 of 56 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

marmŏrĕus — Lewis & Short

marmŏrĕus, a, um, adj.marmor,

I made or consisting of marble, marble-.

I Lit. (class.): signum aëneum, marmoreum, eburneum, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 1, § 1: tecta, id. Par. 1, 3, 13: solum, a floor, id. ib. 6, 3, 49: facere aliquem marmoreum, to make of marble, i. e. as a marble statue, Verg. E. 7, 35: ponere aliquem marmoreum, Hor. C. 4, 1, 20: colossus, Juv. 8, 230: villa, id. 4, 112.—

II Transf.

A Of or pertaining to marble, marble- (very rare): ars, Vitr. 4, 1.—

B Resembling marble (in whiteness or smoothness), marble-like, marble- (mostly poet.): pectus, Lucil. ap. Non. 391, 26: cervix, Verg. G. 4, 523: pollex, Ov. M. 13, 746: palmae, id. ib. 3, 481: pedes, id. Am. 2, 11, 15: manus, Mart. 8, 56, 14: candor, marblewhiteness, Lucr. 2, 765: color, i. e. whiteness, id. 2, 775: Paros (from its famous marble quarries), Ov. M. 7, 465: gelu, id. F. 4. 918: aequor, Verg. A. 6, 729.—

C Adorned with statues: Lucanus in hortis marmoreis, Juv. 7, 80.

In the wild

marmoreae Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.1.10
marmoream Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.135
marmoreum Horace, Epistulae 1.18.73
marmoreus Historia Augusta, Antoninus Pius 3
marmoreis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.5.p10
marmoreo Vergil, Aeneid 4.392

6 of 133 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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