I.a half-man, i. q. semihomo and semimas (not anteAug.).
I. Lit.
A. Half man and half beast, e. g. the Centaur Chiron. Ov. F. 5, 380; “the Minotaur,” id. A. A. 2, 24 (cf. semibos): “Nessus,” id. H. 9, 141.—
B. An hermaphrodite, Ov. M. 4, 386; Plin. 11, 49, 110, § 263.—
II. Transf., emasculated.
A. Lit., of a priest of Cybele (cf. semimas), Juv. 6, 513: “semiviri chori,” Sil. 17, 20: “formosum adulescentem semivirum reddidit,” Lact. 1, 17, 7. —
B. Trop., unmanly, womanish, effeminate: “et nunc ille Paris cum semiviro comitatu,” Verg. A. 4, 215: “Phryx,” id. ib. 12, 99; Lact. 1, 10, 9; Stat. Achill. 2, 363.—So esp. of debauchees: “qui tam atrocem caedem pertinere ad illos semiviros crederent (for which, just before: molles and obsceni viri),” Liv. 33, 28, 7: “impure ac semivir,” Luc. 8, 552.
