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amplexus , ūs, m. amplector,
I.an embracing, encircling, surrounding (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I. In gen.: amplexu terrarum, * Lucr. 5, 319: serpentis amplexu, * Cic. Div. 1, 36: “exuit amplexus,” my embrace, Ov. M. 9, 52: “occupat (serpens) hos morsu, longis amplexibus illos,” id. ib. 3, 48: “oceanus, qui orbem terrarum amplexu finit,” Liv. 36, 17; so Plin. 5, 9, 9, § 48; Stat. Th. 6, 255 al.—
II. Esp.
A. A loving embrace, caress (mostly in plur.): “cum dabit amplexus atque oscula dulcia figet,” Verg. A. 1, 687; Vulg. Prov. 7, 18: “inter amplexus flevit,” ib. Gen. 46, 29: “aliquem impedire amplexu,” Ov. M. 2, 433: “dum petis amplexus,” id. H. 14, 69 Ruhnk.; Sen. Thyest. 522; “also: amplexu petere aliquem,” Ov. M. 6, 605: “longe fieri ab amplexibus,” Vulg. Eccl. 3, 5: “circumfusus amplexibus Tiberii sui,” Vell. 2, 123: “tenere aliquem amplexu,” Tac. A. 12, 68: “in amplexus alicujus ruere,” id. ib. 16, 32: “in amplexus ejus effusus,” id. ib. 12, 47.—
B. Euphemist., Ov. M. 4, 184; Juv. 6, 64; Sil. 11, 399 Drak.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (17):
    • Old Testament, Proverbs, 7.18
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.48
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.184
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.605
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.433
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 1.687
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiastes, 3.5
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 46.29
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.52
    • Tacitus, Annales, 12.68
    • Ovid, Epistulae, 14.69
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.319
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 5.48
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 36, 17
    • Seneca, Thyestes, 522
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.36
    • Statius, Thebias, 6
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