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aevum (archaic aevom ), i, n.; but m., Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 14; Lucr. 2, 561; 3, 603 [αἰών; cf. αἰές or αἰέν, ἀεί, ἀίδιος; Goth. aivs = time, aiv = ever, aiveins = everlasting; Germ. ewig, Ewigkeit; Eng. aye, ever].
I. Lit.
A. In gen., uninterrupted, never-ending time, eternity; per aevom, Lucr. 1, 634; 1, 950 al.—Hence of the future: “in aevum,for all time, Hor. C. 4, 14, 3; so Plin. 35, 2, 2, and Vulg. Eccli. 41, 16: “nos peribimus in aevum,ib. Bar. 3, 3.—
B. Esp., in a more restricted sense of a definite time, period, lifetime, life, age: aevom agitare, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 2, 3 (Ann. v. 308 Vahl.): in armis aevom agere, Pac. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 21, 49 (Trag. Rel. p. 110 Rib.); so, aevom degere, Lucr. 5, 1439: “consumere,id. 5, 1430: meum si quis te percontabitur aevum, my age or time of life, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 26: “aevum omne et breve et fragile est,Plin. Pan. 78, 2: flos aevi, the bloom of life (cf. aetas, I.), Ov. M. 9, 435: “integer aevi,Verg. A. 9, 255: “primum aevum,Val. Fl. 7, 338.—Also (like aetas, q. v. I.) for old age: “aevo confectus,Verg. A. 11, 85: “obsitus aevo,id. ib. 8, 307: “annis aevoque soluti,Ov. M. 8, 712.—
II. Transf.
B. The men living in the same age (cf. aetas, II. C.): “de quibus consensus aevi judicaverit,Plin. 14, 6, 8, § 72.—
C. In a wider sense, time, in gen.: “vitiata dentibus aevi omnia,Ov. M. 15, 235: “quae per tantum aevi occulta,Tac. A. 16, 1.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (23):
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.712
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.435
    • Plautus, Poenulus, 5.4
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 9.255
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 11.85
    • Old Testament, Baruch, 3.3
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus, 41.16
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.235
    • Tacitus, Annales, 16.1
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 3.603
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.634
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.950
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.561
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.1430
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.1439
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 2.92
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 35.2
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 14.9
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 2.57
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 2.21
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 7.338
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 12.2.3
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 1.3
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