I.a discoverer, inventor, deviser, author (not in Cic. or Cæs.; cf. “inventor): vitis,” i. e. Bacchus, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 19; Ov. Am. 1, 3, 11: “mellis,” id. F. 3, 762: “carminis et medicae opis, Phoebus,” id. R. Am. 76: “poenae,” id. Tr. 3, 11, 51: “medicinae,” i.e. Æsculapius, Verg. A. 7, 772: “hominum rerumque,” i.e. Jupiter, id. ib. 12, 829: “doctrinarum atque leporum,” Lucr. 3, 1049: “pallae honestae,” Hor. A. P. 278: “legum,” Quint. 2, 16, 9: “novi juris,” Tac. A. 2, 30: “relationis,” id. ib. 12, 53: “facinorum omnium,” id. ib. 4, 11: “flagitii ejus,” id. ib. 4, 71: “perfidiae,” Sall. H. 4, 61, 7 Dietsch; Cels. 7, 26, 3; Macr. S. 1, 7, 25: “orbis,” Prud. Cath. 4, 9: “artis rhetoricae,” App. Flor 4, p. 360, 12 codd. (v. repertio).
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