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puer erī, m

3 PV-, a male child, boy, lad, young man (usu. till the age of seventeen): aliquam puero nutricem para, T.: id est semper esse puerum: laudator temporis acti Se puero, when he was a boy , H.: puerum filium regis secum adducentes, L.: doctus a puero, from a boy : ad eas artīs, quibus a pueris dediti fuimus, from boyhood : ex pueris excessit, ceased to be a child : miserande puer, i. e. Pallas , V.: semper fac puer esse velis, i. e. a bachelor , O.: de te largitor, puer, boy , T.Plur, children : infantium puerorum incunabula: Dum pueris omnis pater pallet, H.A little son, son : Ascanius puer, V.: Venerem et illi haerentem puerum canebat, H.: deorum pueri, H.A boy, attendant, servant, slave : unus ex tantā familiā: Persicos odi, puer, apparatūs, H.: Cena ministratur pueris tribus, H.: pueri regii aput Macedonas, royal pages , L.

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