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pătŭlus , a, um, adj. pateo,
I.standing open, open (syn. patens).
I. Lit.: “locus patulus,Varr. L. L. 5, § 161 Müll.: “pina duabus grandibus patula conchis, etc.,Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 123; id. Fin. 3, 19, 63: “patulae aures,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 70: “nares,Verg. G. 1, 376: “cavo aut patulo maxime ore,Quint. 9, 4, 33: “fenestrae,Ov. M. 14, 752: “latitudo,Tac. A. 15, 40.—
B. Transf., spread out, spreading, extended, broad, wide: “mundus,Lucr. 6, 108: “rami,Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 28: “quadra,Verg. A. 7, 115: “fagus,id. E. 1, 1: “patulis captavit naribus auras,id. G. 1, 376: “pectines,Hor. S. 2, 4, 34: “lacus,Ov. M. 2, 379: “plaustra,Verg. G. 3, 362: “canistra,Ov. M. 8, 676: “patulae in latitudinem naves,Plin. 36, 9, 14, § 68: “loca urbis,Tac. A. 15, 40: “aves alis patulae,Gell. 6, 6, 12: “arca,Juv. 14, 74: “patulos boves,broadhorned, Fest. p. 221 Müll.—*
II. Trop., open to all, i. e. common: “patulus orbis,the beaten round, Hor. A. P. 132.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.379
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.752
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.676
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 7.115
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.376
    • Vergil, Georgics, 3.362
    • Horace, Satires, 2.4.34
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 132
    • Tacitus, Annales, 15.40
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 1.7
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.108
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 36.68
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 3.19
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.48
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, 4.33
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