I.of high or noble birth, high-born, noble, eminent, distinguished (ante- and post-class.): “vir,” Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 90; id. Stich. 3, 2, 36; Amm. 14, 6, 12; Sid. Ep. 3, 11: “matronae,” Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 27: “dea,” App. M. 11, p. 267, 38: “virgo,” id. ib. 4, p. 153, 9: “puella,” Sid. Ep. 9, 6.
summas , ātis, comm. id.,