I.rounded off, rounded, well-turned, round, smooth, etc.: “teres est in longitudine rotundatum, quales asseres natura ministrat,” Fest. p. 363 Müll. (class.; syn. rotundus).
I. Lit.: “stipites,” Caes. B. G. 7, 73: “palus,” Col. 4, 33, 4: “trunci arborum,” Verg. A. 6, 207: “oliva,” id. E. 8, 16: “virga,” Ov. M. 2, 135: “fusus,” id. ib. 6, 22: “hastile,” Liv. 21, 8, 10: mucro, Verg. A. 7, 665: “lapillus,” Ov. M. 10, 260: “(fundae) habena,” Verg. A. 11, 579.—Of parts of the body: “cervix,” round, slender, Lucr. 1, 35, Verg. A. 8, 633; so, “collum,” Ov. M. 10, 113: “brachiolum,” Cat. 61, 181. surae, Hor. C. 2, 4, 21, Ov. M. 11, 80: “membra,” Suet. Caes. 45: “digiti,” Ov. A. A. 1, 622, hence, of the form: “puer,” Hor. Epod. 11, 28.—Of other objects: “plagae,” tightly twisted, firmly woven, Hor. C. 1, 1, 28 strophium, Cat. 64, 65: “zona,” Ov. F. 2, 320: “gemma,” Verg. A. 5, 313: “iaspis, Claud Rapt. Pros. 2, 40: catena,” Luc. 3, 565: “filum,” Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 80: “mitra,” Claud. in Eutr. 2, 185: coma, curling, curly, Varr. ap Non. 328, 12.—
II. Trop., in gen., smooth, polished, elegani: “(sapiens) teres atque rotundus,” Hor. S. 2, 7, 86, imitated by Aus. Idyll. 16, 4: “Atticorum aures teretes et religiosae,” Cic. Or. 9, 27: “teretes aures intellegensque judicium,” id. Opt. Gen. 4, 11: “vox in disputationibus,” smooth, without impediment, Quint. 11, 3, 64: “oratio plena, sed tamen teres,” rounded off, polished, Cic. de Or. 3, 52, 199: “Ciceroni mollius teretiusque visum est, fretu scribere quam freto,” Gell. 13, 20, 15.—Sup. and adv. seem not to occur.
