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lānĭger , gĕra, gĕrum, adj. lana-gero,
I.wool-bearing, fleecy (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): pecus, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44: “greges,Verg. G. 3, 287: “arbores,” i. e. cottontrees, Plin. 12, 10, 21, § 38: fertilitas, of insects. id. 11, 24, 28, § 80.—
II. Subst.
A. lānĭger , gĕri, m., a ram, Ov. M. 7, 312. —Of a lamb: “timens,Phaedr. 1, 1, 6.—Of the constellation of the Ram, for Aries, Manil. 1, 672; 2, 200 al.
B. lānĭgĕra , ae, f., a lamb, sheep, Sil. 15, 703.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.312
    • Vergil, Georgics, 3.287
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 11.80
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 12.38
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.22
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