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hordĕārĭus (also ordearius and hordĭarius ), a, um, adj. id.,
I.of or relat. ing to barley, barley-: pira, barley-pears, i. e. pears that are ripe at barley-harvest, Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 55 (also called hordeacea pira, Col. 5, 10, 18); so, “pruna,” Plin. 15, 13, 12, § 41: hordiarium aes, quod pro hordeo equiti Romano dabatur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 102 Müll.; cf. Liv. 1, 43, 9 (Weissenb. ad loc.): Gai. Inst. 4, 27: “antiquissimum in cibis hordeum, sicut Atheniensium ritu apparet et gladiatorum cognomine, qui hordearii vocabantur,” Plin. 18, 7, 14, § 72: “pecunia ex qua hordeum equis erat comparandum ... dicebatur aes hordiarium,” Gai. Inst. 4, 27. —
II. Like barley, i. e. inflated: “hunc eundem M. Coelius hordearium rhetorem appellat, deridens ut inflatum ac levem et sordidum,” Suet. Rhet. 2.
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 (4):
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 15.41
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 18.72
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 43.9
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 5.10.18
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