I. Having a beard, bearded.
A. Of men: “dicere licebit Jovem semper barbatum, Apollinem semper imberbem,” Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 83; 1, 36, 100: “quos aut imberbes aut bene barbatos videtis,” id. Cat. 2, 10, 22.—Poet. as a designation of age, Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 25: equitare in harundine longā, Si quem delectet barbatum, i. e. an adult, * Hor. S. 2, 3, 249: “sub Jove, sed Jove nondum barbato,” i. e. in the earliest time, when Jupiter was yet young, Juv. 6, 16; 13, 56.—Hence,
2. Meton.
a. For a Roman of the olden time (in which the beard was not shaved, v. barba): “aliquis mihi ab inferis excitandus est ex barbatis illis, non hac barbulā, sed illā horridā, quam in statuis antiquis et imaginibus videmus,” Cic. Cael. 14, 33: “unus aliquis ex barbatis illis, exemplum imperii veteris, imago antiquitatis, etc.,” id. Sest 8, 19: “haec jam tum apud illos barbatos ridicula, credo, videbantur,” id. Mur. 12, 26; id. Fin. 4, 23, 62: hic mos jam apud illos antiquos et barbatos fuit, id. Fragm. Or. II. pro Cornel. 18; Juv. 4, 103.—
b. A philosopher (since they wore long beards), Pers. 4, 1; Juv. 14, 12; cf. Hor. S. 1, 3, 133; and as subst. barbatus nudus, Mart. 14, 81.—
B. Of animals, fishes, etc., bearded: “hirculus,” Cat. 19, 16; also absol. barbatus, a goat, Phaedr. 4, 9, 10: “mulli,” Cic. Att. 2, 1, 7 (cf. id. Par. 5, 2, 28, and Plin. 9, 17, 30, § 64): aquila, a species of eagle, also called ossifraga, Plin. 10, 3, 3, § 11.—
II. Transf.
A. Of plants (cf. barba, II. A.), woolly, downy: “nux,” Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 14.—
B. Of other things: “ne toga barbatos faciat vel paenula libros,” i. e. wear out, make bearded, Mart. 14, 84.—
C. A cognomen of Lucius Corn. Scipio, Inscr.
