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saepes (sēp- ), is (nom. saeps, Cic. acc. to Aus. Idyll. in Grammaticom. 12, 11; Val. Fl. 6, 537;
I.but, saepes,Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 2; Verg. E. 1, 54; Col. 10, 374; Pall. 1, 34, 6; Claud. Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 56), f. root svak-, to make firm; Sanscr. sag, to cling; cf. σάττω; p for k, as in lupus.
I. Prop., a hedge, fence; sing., besides the passages above cited, Pac. ap. Non. 179, 15; Verg. G. 1, 270; Col. 11, 3, 3 sq.; Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 101; Ov. H. 20, 144: “viva saepis,Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 1: “saepes ex agresti ligno,id. ib. 1, 14, 2.—Plur., Poët. ap. Cic. N. D. 1, 42, 119; Caes. B. G. 2, 17; 2, 22; Verg. G. 2, 371; id. E. 8, 37; Ov. M. 1, 493.—
II. Meton., of any enclosure (poet.): “scopulorum, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 7, 13: portarum,Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 81.
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    • Caesar, Gallic War, 2.17
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.493
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.270
    • Vergil, Georgics, 2.371
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 17.101
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 1.42
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 6.537
    • Ovid, Tristia, 4.1
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