I.of glass, glass-, vitreous.
I. Lit.
A. Adj.: “vasa,” Col. 12, 4, 4: “Priapus,” a glass in the form of a Priapus, Juv. 2, 95: “hostis,” i. e. a glass chessman, Ov. A. A. 2, 208: “latro,” Mart. 7, 72, 8: “faba,” Petr. 76.—
B. Subst.: vī^trĕa , ōrum, n., glass vessels, glassware, Mart. 1, 42, 5; Stat. S. 1, 6, 73: vitrea fracta, broken glass, as a designation for trifles, trumpery, Petr. 10.—
II. Transf., like glass, glassy, in color or transparency, clear, bright, shining, transparent: “unda,” Verg. A. 7, 759: “antra,” Ov. M. 5, 48: “pontus,” Hor. C. 4, 2, 3: “sedilia,” Verg. G. 4, 350: “ros,” Ov. Am. 1, 6, 55: “color,” i. e. sea-green, Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 100: “Circe,” brilliant, beautiful, Hor. C. 1, 17, 20: togae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 448, 28; 536, 32: turgescit vitrea bilis, i. e. transparent (transl. of Gr. ὑαλώδης χολή), Pers. 3, 8.—
B. Trop.: “fama,” brilliant, Hor. S. 2, 3, 222: fortuna, brittle, fragile, P. Syr. Mim. (Sent. v. 189 Rib.).
