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sŏrōrĭus , a, um, adj. id..
I. In gen., of or belonging to a sister, sisterly: “cena,made because a sister was found, Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 60: “stupra,with a sister, Cic. Sest. 7, 16: “moenia,” i. e. of Dido, Ov. F. 3, 559: “oscula,as a sister gives to a brother, sisterly, id. M. 4, 334; 9, 539.—
II. In partic.: Sororium Tigillum, the Sister's beam, a place in Rome sacred to Juno, where Horatius was obliged to creep under a beam laid across the way as a punishment for having killed his sister, Liv. 1, 26, 13; Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 4; Fest. pp. 297 and 307 Müll.
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