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massa , ae, f., = μάζα,
I.that which adheres together like dough, a lump, mass (poet. and post-Aug.): “massa picis,Verg. G. 1, 275: “salis,Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 78: “lactis coacti,cheese, Ov. M. 8, 666: “lactis alligati,Mart. 8, 64, 9.—Of metals: “versantque tenaci forcipe massam,Verg. A. 8, 453: “aeris,Plin. 34, 9, 20, § 97: “chalybis,Ov. F. 4, 405: “ardens,Juv. 10, 130.—Of money: “tum argenti montis, non massas habet: Aetna non aeque altast,Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 73.— Absol., of a mass of gold: “contactu gleba potenti Massa fit,Ov. M. 11, 112: marmoris, a block of marble: “marmor, non in columnis crustisve, sed in massa,Plin. 36, 6, 8, § 49.—Of chaos, Ov. M. 1, 70.—Of a heavy weight, Juv. 6, 421.—Of an indeterminate quantity of land, Inscr. Orell. 4360.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.112
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.70
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.666
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 8.453
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.275
    • Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 4.2
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 36.49
    • Ovid, Fasti, 4
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