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con-căvus , a, um,
I.adj., hollow, concave; arched, vaulted; bent, curved: “cymbala,Lucr. 2, 619; cf.: “concava aera,Ov. M. 4, 30: “loca terrae,Lucr. 5, 1255: “altitudines speluncarum,Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 98: “saxa,Verg. G. 4, 49: “vallis,Ov. M. 8, 334: “bracchia Cancri,id. ib. 10, 127; “15, 369: jugula,Cic. Fat. 5, 10: “manus (opp. plana),Sen. Ep. 56, 1: “dentes,Plin. 11, 37, 61, § 162: “folia,id. 16, 24, 38, § 92: “aqua,swelling, Ov. Tr. 1, 11, 20: “puppis,id. F. 4, 276: “vela,id. H. 6, 66: “ulcus,Scrib. Comp. 238.—
II. Subst.: con-căva , ōrum, n., hollow places, hollows (postclass.), Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 47; Lact. 7, 26.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 10.127
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.30
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.334
    • Vergil, Georgics, 4.49
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.619
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.1255
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 16.92
    • Cicero, De Fato, 5
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.39
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 56.1
    • Ovid, Tristia, 1.11
    • Ovid, Fasti, 4
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