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jŭvĕnis , is, adj. (
I.comp. juvenior, for the more usual junior, Plin. Ep. 4, 8; App. M. 8, p. 210, 36) [Sanscr. yuvan, young].
I. Adj.: “ut juveni primum virgo deducta marito,Tib. 3, 4, 31: “est mihi filius juvenis,Quint. 4, 2, 42: “juvenes anni,Ov. M. 7, 295: “juvenes premere Medos,Juv. 7, 132: “ovis juvenis,Col. 7, 3, 6: “deus,Calp. Ecl. 7, 6.— Comp.: “toto junior anno,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 44: “dis junioribus permisit ut, etc.,Cic. Univ. 13.—
II. Subst.: jŭvĕnis , is, comm., one who is in the flower of his or her age (mostly of persons older than adolescentes and younger than seniores, i. e. between twenty and forty years), a young person, a young man, a young woman: “infirmitas puerorum, et ferocitas juvenum, et gravitas jam constantis aetatis,Cic. de Sen. 10, 33: “simul ac juvenes esse coeperunt,id. Off. 2, 13, 45: “aetas juvenum (opp. senum),id. Cat. 19, 67: “juvenem egregium praestanti munere donat,Verg. A. 5, 361: “juvenes fervidi,Hor. C. 4, 13, 26: “nefas si juvenis vetulo non assurrexerat,Juv. 13, 55: “telluris juvenes = terrae filios,Hor. C. 2, 12, 7: “clamosus juvenem pater excitat,Juv. 4, 191; so, “juvenes ipsius consulis,sons, id. 8, 262.—In comp.: “edicitur delectus: juniores ad nomina respondent,Liv. 3, 41, 1; 6, 2, 6: junior (opp. senior), the son, the younger of the name (late Lat.), Ambros. Enar. in Psa. 45, 31: “eos (milites) ad annum quadragesimum sextum juniores, supraque eum annum seniores appellavit (Servius Tullius),Gell. 11, 28, 1.—Fem.: “Cornelia juvenis est,Plin. 7, 36, 36, § 122: “pulchra,Phaedr. 2, 2, 5; Ov. A. A. 1, 63; “amica,Claud. in Eutr. 2, praef. 23.—
B. Juvenis (for juventus), the youth, the young men: “lectus juvenis,Sil. 4, 219.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.295
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 5.361
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 4.8
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 3, 41.1
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 6, 2.6
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 2.13
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 4, 2.42
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 7.3.6
    • Cicero, Timaeus, 13
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