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gĕmĭnus , a, um, adj. cf.: gener, genui (gigno),
I.born at the same time, twin-born, twin- (class.).
I. Lit.
A. Adj.: “tibi sunt gemini et trigemini filii,Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 123: “filios parere,id. Am. 5, 1, 36: “C. et L. Fabricii fratres gemini fuerunt ex municipio Aletrinati,twin-brothers, Cic. Clu. 16, 46; “v. frater: sorores,Ov. M. 4, 774; Hor. C. 4, 7, 5; cf.: “soror gemina germana,Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 30: “pueri,Verg. A. 8, 631: “proles,id. ib. 1, 274: dei (i. e. Apollo and Diana), Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 16 Müll. (Trag. v. 425 Vahl.): “partus,Liv. 1, 4, 2: “Castor,” i. e. Castor and Pollux, Ov. A. A. 1, 746; cf. “Pollux,Hor. C. 3, 29, 64: “nec gemino bellum Trojanum orditur ab ovo,” i. e. from Helen, the twin-daughter of Leda, id. A. P. 147: “fratres, Amphion atque Zethus,id. Ep. 1, 18, 41: “Quirini,” i. e. Romulus and Remus, Juv. 11, 105.—Comically in the sup.: To. Hic ejus geminust frater. Do. Hicine'st? To. Ac geminissimus, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 49.—
B. Subst.: gĕmĭni , ōrum, m., twins: “Servilii, qui gemini fuerunt ... ut mater geminos internoscit consuetudine oculorum, sic, etc.,Cic. Ac. 2, 18, 56 sq.; cf.: “geminorum formas esse similes,id. Div. 2, 43, 90; Liv. 1, 6, 4.—Of beasts: “(asina) raro geminos parit,Plin. 8, 43, 68, § 168.—
2. In partic.
a. Gemini , as a constellation, The Twins (Castor and Pollux; “acc. to others, Apollo and Hercules),Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 281; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 7; called also geminum astrum, Col. poët. 10, 312.—
b. Acc. to the Gr. δίδυμοι, the testicles, i. q. testiculi (late Lat.), Sol. 13; Amm. 16, 7.—
II. Transf.
A. In gen., paired, double, two-fold, both, two, = duplex, duo: “gemino lucernae lumine declarari, dissensionem et seditionem moveri,Cic. Div. 2, 58, 120; cf.: “ex unis geminas mihi conficies nuptias,Ter. And. 4, 1, 51: “et tripodes gemini,Verg. A. 9, 265: “cum quaererent alii Numerium, alii Quintium, gemini nominis errore servatus est (Numerius Quintius),Cic. Sest. 38, 82: “sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera, etc.,Verg. A. 6, 894: “scopuli,id. ib. 1, 162; cf.: “vos, geminae voragines rei publicae,Cic. Pis. 18, 41: “huc geminas nunc flecte acies,your pair of eyes, both eyes, Verg. A. 6, 788: “tempora,id. ib. 5, 416: “nares,id. G. 4, 300: “cornua (Eridani),id. ib. 4, 371: “manus,Mart. 10, 10, 10: “pedes,Ov. F. 2, 154; “for which: pes,id. A. A. 2, 644: “geminae (vites),Col. 3, 2, 10 (for which: “gemellae vites,Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 21): “aliae (percussiones numerorum) sunt geminae,double, Cic. de Or. 3, 47, 182; cf.: “geminis vocalibus,Quint. 1, 7, 14: “M gemina,id. ib. 8: geminique tulit Chironis in antrum, double-formed (half man, half horse), Ov. M. 2, 630; 6, 126; cf.: “corpus Tritonis (half man and half fish),Stat. S. 3, 2, 35: Cecrops (acc. to a myth, half man and half serpent, or half man and half woman; “or else as Egyptian and Greek),Ov. M. 2, 555: GEMINA LEGIO, a double legion (formed out of two legions), epithet of the tenth legion in Hispania, Inscr. Orell. 72 sq.; 1214; 2090; “3376 al. (for which: gemella legio,Caes. B. C. 3, 4, 1; cf. Tac. H. 2, 58): cum geminis exsurgit mensa lucernis, seen double by one in drink, Juv. 6, 305.—
B. Resembling, similar, like, as twins: “VOLO, MI FRATER, FRATERCULO TUO CREDAS: consorti quidem in lucris atque in furtis, gemino et simillimo nequitia, improbitate, audaciā,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 66, § 155; cf.: “Dolabella et Antonius ... ecce tibi geminum in scelere par,a twin-pair, id. Phil. 11, 1, 2; Varr. L. L. 9, § 92: “par est avaritia, similis improbitas, eadem impudentia, gemina audacia,Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 118 fin.; cf. id. Rosc. Com. 18, 55: “quae (memoria) est gemina litteraturae quodammodo et in dissimili genere persimilis,twin-sister, id. Part. 7, 26 (al. germana): illud vero geminum consiliis Catilinae et Lentuli, quod me domo mea expulistis, like, similar, id. Pis. 7, 16; cf.: “ambobus geminus cupido laudis,Sil. 4, 99.
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