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ŭtĕrus , i, m. (collat. form ŭter , Caecil. ap. Non. 188, 15;
I.neutr. collat. form ŭtĕ-rum , i, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 10, acc. to Non. 229, 33; Turp. and Afran. ib.) [Sanscr. uttara, later; Gr. ὕστερος; cf. Gr. ὑστέρα, womb; Sanscr. udaram, belly; Engl. udder], the womb, matrix (syn. volva).
I. Lit.: “utero exorti dolores,Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 40: “perii, mea nutrix, uterum dolet!id. Aul. 4, 7, 10; id. Truc. 1, 2, 96: quae te beluam ex utero, non hominem fudit, Cic. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 8, 139; Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 97; Hirt. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 54; Prop. 4, 1, 100; Hor. C. 3, 22, 2; Ov. M. 9, 280; 9, 315; 10, 495; id. F. 2, 452; Tac. A. 1, 59; Plin. 9, 6, 5, § 13.—
II. Transf.
A. Of the cavities of the earth, from which the first creatures are represented to have come forth, Lucr. 5, 806; cf. Lact. 2, 11 init.
B. The fruit of the womb, a fetus, child, young: “feminae uterum gerentes,” i. e. pregnant, Cels. 2, 10; Tac. A. 1, 59.—Of animals, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 14; Plin. 8, 40, 62, § 151.—
C. In gen., the belly, paunch: me puero uterus erat solarium: ubi iste monebat esse, etc., Plaut. Fragm. ap. Gell. 3, 3, 5; Verg. A. 7, 499; Cels. 4, 1; Juv. 10, 309; Luc. 6, 115; 9, 773.— “Of swans,Plin. 10, 47, 66, § 131.—
2. Of inanimate things; “of the Trojan horse,Verg. A. 2, 52: “dolii,Col. 12, 4, 5: “lato utero (navium),Tac. A. 2, 6.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.280
    • Plautus, Amphitruo, 5.1
    • Plautus, Truculentus, 1.2
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 7.499
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.52
    • Tacitus, Annales, 1.59
    • Tacitus, Annales, 2.6
    • Plautus, Aulularia, 4.7
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.806
    • Lucan, Civil War, 6.115
    • Lucan, Civil War, 9.773
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 9.13
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 4.1
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 2.10
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, 3.54
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 3.3.5
    • Ovid, Fasti, 2
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