sĕrĭes — Lewis & Short
sĕrĭes (no
I gen. or dat.), em, ē, f. 2. sero, a row, succession, series; a chain of things fastened or holding together (syn. ordo).
I In gen.
A Lit. (mostly post - class.; not in Cic.); with gen.:
series vinculorum,Curt. 3, 1, 17:
structurae dentium,Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 70:
sparsa ramorum,id. 11, 37, 69, § 182:
longe porrecta viarum,Stat. S. 3, 3, 102:
juvenum (in dancing),Tib. 1, 3, 63:
omnis nepotum A Belo series,Sil. 1, 88:
custodiarum,Suet. Calig. 27:
prolixa series capillorum,App. M. 2, p. 118, 36.—Absol.:
ferreae laminae serie inter se conexae,Curt. 4, 9, 3; 7, 3, 21.—
B Trop., a series, chain, connection, train, sequence, course, etc. (class., but for the most part only in the sing.).
(a) With gen.:
continuatio seriesque rerum,Cic. N. D. 1, 4, 9:
fatum est ordo seriesque causarum,id. Div. 1, 55, 125:
fatum est sempiterna quaedam series rerum et catena, etc.,Gell. 6, 2, 1:
rerum sententiarumque,Cic. Leg. 1, 19, 52:
tanta series artis est,id. Part. Or. 39, 137:
in complexu loquendi serieque,Quint. 1, 5, 3:
disputationum,Cic. de Or. 2, 16, 68:
fati,Ov. M. 15, 152:
immensa laborum,id. H. 9, 5:
malorum,id. M. 4, 563:
longissima rerum,Verg. A. 1, 641:
fabularum,App. M. 1, p. 114, 19.—Of time (poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
innumerabilis annorum,Hor. C. 3, 30, 5:
temporis,Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 54:
per longam saeculorum seriem,Tac. H. 1, 2:
in tantā saeculorum serie,Just. 44, 2, 7:
per tam longam seriem annorum,Col. 3, 10, 6; 4, 19, 1:
cum omnis temporum series ex historiis colligatur,Lact. 4, 5, 8; 4, 10, 3.—Plur.:
simulantes fictas litium, series,Vell. 2, 118:
litium,Suet. Vesp. 10.—
(b) Absol., Quint. 5, 14, 32:
cetera series deinde sequitur, majora nectens, ut haec: Si homo est, animal est, etc.,Cic. Ac. 2, 7, 21:
quae bene composita erunt, memoriam serie sua ducent,Quint. 11, 2, 39:
haec erit aeternae series ab origine Romae,Aus. Epigr. 140, 2.—Of the connection of words:
tantum series juncturaque pollet,Hor. A. P. 242.—
II In partic., an unbroken line of descent, lineage (poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
ab Jove tertius Ajax. Nec tamen haec series in causā prosit,Ov. M. 13, 29:
digne vir hac serie,id. P. 3, 2, 109:
serie fulcite genus,Prop. 4 (5), 11, 69. Val. Max. 2, 7, 5.