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co-gnātus , a, um, adj. natus, nascor,
I.sprung from the same stock, related by blood, kindred; and subst.: cognātus , i, m., and cognāta , ae, f., a blood-relation, kinsman (on either the father's or the mother's side; a more comprehensive word than agnatus, q. v.; very freq. and class.).
B. Poet., of objects relating to kindred: “rogi,Prop. 3 (4), 7, 10.latus,Ov. M. 9, 412: “corpora,id. ib. 2, 663; “13, 615: pectora,id. ib. 6, 498: “moenia,id. ib. 15, 451: “cineres,Cat. 68, 98: “urbes,Verg. A. 3, 502: “sanguis,id. ib. 12, 29: acies (i. e. between Cœsar and Pompey), Luc. 1, 4 et saep.—
C. Transf.
1. Of animals: “genus,Plin. 10, 3, 4, § 13.—
2. Of plants: “arbores,Plin. 16, 10, 16, § 38.—
3. Of other things; so (acc. to Pythagorean notions) of the soul, kindr. with the Deity, Ov. M. 1, 81 (cf. Cic. Sen. 21, 78; id. N. D. 1, 32, 91; Lucr. 2, 991; “Diog. Laert. 1, 28 al.).—Of Thebes: moenia cognata Baccho,Stat. Th. 1, 11.— “Of beans, in allusion to the doctrine of transmigration: faba Pythagorae cognata,Hor. S. 2, 6, 63 al.
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