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Cĕrĕālis (Cĕrĭālis ; cf. Serv.ad Verg. A. 1, 177; so Cic. Att. 2, 12, 2 and 4 Orell.), e, adj. Ceres.
I. Pertaining to Ceres, devoted to her, and, meton., pertaining to the cultivation of land, grain, or agriculture: “nemus,sacred to Ceres, Ov. M. 8, 741: “sacrum,id. Am. 3, 10, 1: “Eleusin,id. F. 4, 507; id. M. 7, 439 (cf. Mel. 2, 3, 4: “Eleusin Cereri consecrata): papaver (as her symbolic attribute),Verg. G. 1, 212 Heyne; Col. 10, 314: “cenae,” i. e. splendid, like those at the festivals of Ceres, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 25: “sulci,Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 11: “munera,id. M. 11, 121; 13, 639: “dona,id. ib. 11, 122; id. F. 1, 683; 6, 391 (cf.: “dona Cereris,id. M. 5, 655): “herbae,id. F. 4, 911: “libum,id. ib. 1, 127: “semina,id. M. 1, 123: “culmus,Verg. G. 2, 517: “arma,” i. e. the implements for grinding and baking, id. A. 1, 177: “solum,” i. e. the cake laid on the ground, id. ib. 7, 111 (cf. id. ib. v. 109): aediles, who had the superintendence of provisions; v. aedilis fin.—Hence,
B. Subst.: Cĕrĕālĭa , ium, n. (also in appos.: “Cerealia ludi,Liv. 30, 39, 8; cf.: Megalesia ludi, al.), the festival of Ceres, celebrated on the 10th of April, Cic. Att. 2, 12, 2 and 4; Varr. L. L. 6, § 15 Müll.; Ov. F. 4, 619; cf. id. ib. 389 sq.—
II. A Roman cognomen, Mart. 4, 8; 12, 52.
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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 2.12.2
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.121
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.122
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.123
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.655
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 1.177
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.212
    • Vergil, Georgics, 2.517
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.439
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.741
    • Plautus, Menaechmi, 1.1
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 30, 39.8
    • Ovid, Tristia, 3.12
    • Martial, Epigrammata, 12.52
    • Martial, Epigrammata, 4.8
    • Ovid, Fasti, 1
    • Ovid, Fasti, 4
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