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căsa , ae, f. Sanscr. khad, to cover; cf.: cassis, castrum,
I.any simple or poorly-built house, a cottage, hut, cabin, shed, etc., Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 6; Lucr. 5, 1011; 6, 1254; Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97; Vitr. 2, 1; Verg. E. 2, 29; Tib. 2, 1, 24 et saep.; Cic. Fam. 16, 18, 2; a small country-house, Mart. 6, 43; Caes. B. G. 5, 43 Herz.; Veg. Mil. 2, 10.—Of babyhouses, Hor. S. 2, 3, 247.—
b. Casae, in late Lat. meton., a country estate, a farm, Cassiod. Var. 5, 14.—
B. Prov.: ita fugias, ne praeter casam, i. e. do not run so far as to pass the safest hiding-place, in allusion to a game of hide-and-seek, Ter. Phorm. 5, 2, 3. —
II. Esp.: “casa Romuli,the thatched cottage of Romulus on the Capitoline Hill, Vitr. 2. 1; cf. Verg. A. 8, 654; Ov. F. 3, 183 sqq.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 16.18.2
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 5.43
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 8.654
    • Horace, Satires, 2.3.247
    • Vitruvius, On Architecture, 2
    • Vitruvius, On Architecture, 2.1
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.1011
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.1254
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.34
    • Martial, Epigrammata, 6.43
    • Ovid, Fasti, 3
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