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cērĕus , a, um, adj. cera,
I.waxen, of wax.
I. Prop., Cic. N. D. 3, 12, 30: “effigies,Hor. S. 1, 8, 30: “imago,id. ib. 1, 8, 43; id. Epod. 17, 76; cf. id. Ep. 2, 1, 265: “castra,cells of wax, honey-comb, Verg. A. 12, 589; cf. “regna,waxen realms, id. G. 4, 202: “simul acra,Ov. H. 6, 91.—
B. Subst.: -rĕus , i, m. (sc. funis), a waxlight, wax taper, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 9; Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80; Sen. Ep. 122, 10; id. Brev. Vit. 20, 5; id. Tranq. 11, 7. Such waxlights were brought by clients to their patrons as presents at the time of the Saturnalia, Fest.s.v. cereos, p. 54 Müll.; Macr. S. 1, 7 and 11; Mart. 5, 18.—
II. Meton.
B. Pliant, soft, like wax: “bracchia Telephi,Hor. C. 1, 13, 2.—Hence,
C. Trop., easily moved or persuaded: “cereus in vitium flecti,Hor. A. P. 163.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 13.818
    • Plautus, Curculio, 1.1
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 12.589
    • Vergil, Georgics, 4.202
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 163
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 37.33
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 3.12
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.20
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 122.10
    • Martial, Epigrammata, 3.58
    • Martial, Epigrammata, 4.53
    • Martial, Epigrammata, 5.18
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