I.gen. or dat.), em, ē, f. 2. sero, a row, succession, series; a chain of things fastened or holding together (syn. ordo).
I. In gen.
A. Lit. (mostly post - class.; not in Cic.); with gen.: “series vinculorum,” Curt. 3, 1, 17: “structurae dentium,” Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 70: “sparsa ramorum,” id. 11, 37, 69, § 182: “longe porrecta viarum,” Stat. S. 3, 3, 102: “juvenum (in dancing),” Tib. 1, 3, 63: “omnis nepotum A Belo series,” Sil. 1, 88: “custodiarum,” Suet. Calig. 27: “prolixa series capillorum,” App. M. 2, p. 118, 36.—Absol.: “ferreae laminae serie inter se conexae,” Curt. 4, 9, 3; 7, 3, 21.—
B. Trop., a series, chain, connection, train, sequence, course, etc. (class., but for the most part only in the sing.).
(α).
With gen.: “continuatio seriesque rerum,” Cic. N. D. 1, 4, 9: “fatum est ordo seriesque causarum,” id. Div. 1, 55, 125: “fatum est sempiterna quaedam series rerum et catena, etc.,” Gell. 6, 2, 1: “rerum sententiarumque,” Cic. Leg. 1, 19, 52: “tanta series artis est,” id. Part. Or. 39, 137: “in complexu loquendi serieque,” Quint. 1, 5, 3: “disputationum,” Cic. de Or. 2, 16, 68: “fati,” Ov. M. 15, 152: “immensa laborum,” id. H. 9, 5: “malorum,” id. M. 4, 563: “longissima rerum,” Verg. A. 1, 641: “fabularum,” App. M. 1, p. 114, 19.—Of time (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): “innumerabilis annorum,” Hor. C. 3, 30, 5: “temporis,” Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 54: “per longam saeculorum seriem,” Tac. H. 1, 2: “in tantā saeculorum serie,” Just. 44, 2, 7: “per tam longam seriem annorum,” Col. 3, 10, 6; 4, 19, 1: “cum omnis temporum series ex historiis colligatur,” Lact. 4, 5, 8; 4, 10, 3.—Plur.: “simulantes fictas litium, series,” Vell. 2, 118: “litium,” Suet. Vesp. 10.—
(β).
Absol., Quint. 5, 14, 32: “cetera series deinde sequitur, majora nectens, ut haec: Si homo est, animal est, etc.,” Cic. Ac. 2, 7, 21: “quae bene composita erunt, memoriam serie sua ducent,” Quint. 11, 2, 39: “haec erit aeternae series ab origine Romae,” Aus. Epigr. 140, 2.—Of the connection of words: “tantum series juncturaque pollet,” Hor. A. P. 242.—
