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con-fīnis (access. form confīnĭus , a, um, Auct. Her. 4, 11, 16 B. and K.; Schol. Juv. 14, 151; Front. Pol. p. 144 Goes.), e,
I.adj., bordering one upon another, bordering on, adjoining, contiguous (class. in prose and poetry, but not in Cic.).
I. Prop.
(α). Absol.: “fundi,Varr. R. R. 1, 16, 1; Dig. 10, 1, 4, § 8: “in confinem agrum,Liv. 4, 49, 4: “templa,Ov. A. A. 1, 87.—
B. Subst.
1. confīnis , is, m., a neighbor, Dig. 18, 1, 35, § 8; Mart. 2, 32; Lact. 5, 2, 3.—
2. confīne , is, n., that which borders upon, a boundary, border, confine, neighborhood: “mundi labentis,Luc. 6, 649: “papillae,Val. Fl. 6, 374.—
II. Trop., nearly related, nearly like, similar (mostly postAug.; “esp. freq. in Quint.): pervenire ad confinium genus ejus generis (orationis),Auct. Her. 4, 11, 16 B. and K. (al. confine).— With dat.: “confinia carmina studio vestro,Ov. P. 2, 5, 71: “vitia virtutibus,Sen. Ep. 120, 8: “confinia sunt his celebrata apud Graecos schemata,Quint. 9, 2, 92; so id. 5, 11, 21; 6, 3, 88 al.; Symm. Ep. 10, 1.
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    • Caesar, Gallic War, 6.3
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 4, 49.4
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.718
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 13.924
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 41
    • Lucan, Civil War, 6.649
    • Cornelius Nepos, Datames, 4.1
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 45, 29.9
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 6.374
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, 11.21
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 6, 3.88
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, 2.92
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 120.8
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 2.5
    • Martial, Epigrammata, 2.32
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 6.5.11
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