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prōdĭgĭum , ii (
I.gen. plur. prodigiūm, Pac. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155), n. for prodicium, from prodico.
I. Lit., a prophetic sign, token, omen, portent, prodigy, in a good and (more freq.) in a bad sense (syn.: portentum, ostentum, monstrum): mittere, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 26, 68: “multa prodigia vim ejus numenque declarant,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 107: “(lunam deficientem) nullum esse prodigium,id. Rep. 1, 15; Verg. A. 5, 639: “laetum,Plin. 11, 37, 77, § 197: “P. Clodius fatale portentum prodigiumque rei publicae,Cic. Pis. 4, 9: “(Catilina) monstrum atque prodigium,id. Cat. 2, 1, 1: “non mihi jam furtum, sed monstrum ac prodigium videbatur,” i. e. a monstrous and unnatural crime, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 73, § 171; cf. Juv. 6, 84: “piare prodigia,Tac. H. 5, 13: “accipere aliquid in prodigium,id. A. 12, 43: “prodigii loco habere,id. ib. 13, 58: “Harpyia Prodigium canit,Verg. A. 3, 366: “nuntiare,Sall. C. 30, 2: “divinitus factum,Quint. 1, 10, 47: “prodigiorum perita,Liv. 1, 34: “prodigio par est cum nobilitate senectus,Juv. 4, 97: “propter multa prodigia libros Sibyllinos adiisse,Macr. S. 1, 6, 13.—Of miracles: “signa et prodigia,Vulg. Psa. 134, 9 et saep. —
II. Transf., a monster, prodigy: “non ego sum prodigium,Ov. M. 13, 917: “prodigium triplex,id. H. 9, 91: “heu prodigia ventris!Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 55.
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