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sĭlex , ĭcis, m. (poet. and late Lat.; also
I.fem., Verg. E. 1, 15; id. A. 6, 471; 6, 602; 8, 233; Ov. M. 9, 225; 9, 304; 9, 613; Amm. 14, 6, 16; cf. Quint. 1, 6, 2; gen. plur. silicum, Lucr. 6, 683; Luc. 4, 304) [root sar-, to be firm; cf.: solum, solidus].
I. Any hard stone found in fields, a pebble-stone, a flint, flint-stone: “silicem caedere,Cic. Div. 2, 41, 85: “silice vias sternere,Liv. 41, 27; cf. id. 41, 27, § 7: “silici scintillam excudere,Verg. A. 1, 174: “gravem medios silicem jaculatus in hostes,Ov. M. 7, 139 et saep.: “per ampla spatia urbis, subversasque silices,pavements, Amm. 14, 6, 16; cf.: “silicem pedibus quae conteret atrum,Juv. 6, 350.— Freq. joined with lapis: Ag. Illa mulier lapidem silicem subigere, ut se amet, potest. Mi. Pol id quidem haud mentire: “nam tu es lapide silice stultior,Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 77 sq.; Cato, R. R. 18, 3; Liv. 30, 43; Fest. s. v. lapidem, p. 115 Müll.; and in inscrr.: II VIRI VIAM LAPID(e) SILIC(e) STERN(endam) CVR(averunt), Inscr. Bull. dell' Inst. 1839, p. 60; so Inscr. Orell. 6617.—With saxum: “porcum saxo silice percussit,Liv. 1, 24 fin. —To denote hard-heartedness: “non silice nati sumus,Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 12: “nec in tenero stat tibi corde silex,Tib. 1, 1, 64: “nec rigidas silices in pectore gerit,Ov. M. 9, 614: “et dicam silices pectus habere tuum,id. Tr. 3, 11, 4: “moturaque duras Verba queror silices,id. M. 9, 304.—
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (24):
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.304
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.614
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 1.174
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 8.233
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.471
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.107
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.139
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.225
    • Plautus, Poenulus, 1.2
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.571
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.683
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.449
    • Suetonius, Caligula, 37
    • Lucan, Civil War, 4.304
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 41, 27.7
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 41, 27
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 30, 43
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 24
    • Seneca, Phoenissae, 69
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 2.41
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 3.6
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 6.2
    • Ovid, Tristia, 3.11
    • Statius, Silvae, 1.2
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