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prīmōris , e (
I.nom. sing. not in use), adj. primus, the first, first (class. in plur.).
I. In gen. (rare): “imbres,Varr. R. R. 2, 2: “dentes,the front teeth, Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 70: “in primore pueritiā,in earliest childhood, Gell. 10, 19, 3: “anni,first, earliest, Sil. 1, 511: primori Marte, in the first part or beginning of the war, id. 11, 143: “primore aspectu,at first sight, Gell. 2, 7, 6.—
II. In partic.
A. The foremost part, forepart, tip, end, extremity (class.; “syn. primus): sumere aliquid digitulis primoribus,with the tips of one's fingers, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 24: “versabatur mihi (nomen) in labris primoribus,is at my tongue's end, id. Trin. 4, 2, 65: “aliquid primoribus labris attingere,to touch slightly, Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 87; cf. id. Cael. 12, 28; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 428, 3: “surculum primorem praeacuito obliquum primores digitos duos,Cato, R. R. 40, 3; Lucil. ap. Non. 427, 27: “eduxique animam in primoribu' naribus,id. ib. 427, 32: “nasi primoris acumen,Lucr. 6, 1193: “(pilo) primori inest pyxis ferrea,Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 112; 10, 33, 51, § 99: “cauda late fusa primori parte,id. 8, 54, 80, § 216: “vestibulum esse partem domus primorem,Gell. 16, 5, 2: “in primore libro,at the beginning of the book, Gell. 1, 18, 3: “usque in primores manus ac prope in digitos,as far as the forepart of the hands, id. 7, 12: “primori in acie versari,Tac. H. 3, 21.—
B. The first in rank or dignity, chief, principal (poet. and postclass.—In Liv. 24, 20, 13, Weissenb. reads: inpigre conscriptā; v. also Madvig. ad Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 52): “Argivorum viri,Cat. 68, 87: “feminae,Tac. A. 2, 29: “venti,chief, cardinal, Gell. 2, 22.—Hence, subst.: prīmō-res , um, m.
(α). The front rank in battle, etc.: “dum inter primores promptius dimicat, sagittā ictus est,Curt. 4, 6, 17.—
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    • Cicero, For Marcus Caelius, 12.28
    • Old Testament, 2 Maccabees, 8.9
    • Horace, Satires, 2.1.69
    • Tacitus, Annales, 13.30
    • Tacitus, Annales, 2.29
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 3.21
    • Plautus, Amphitruo, 1.1
    • Plautus, Bacchides, 4.4
    • Plautus, Trinummus, 4.2
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 1.19
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.1193
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 10.99
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 18.112
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 7.70
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 24, 20
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 47.11
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 3.16
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 10.19.3
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 16.5.2
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    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 2.7.6
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    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 2.22
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.6.17
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