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căpax , ācis, adj. capio,
I.that can contain or hold much, wide, large, spacious, roomy, capacious (in poets and in post-Aug. prose freq.; in Cic. perh. only once, and then trop; v. infra).
II. Trop.
A. Capacious, susceptible, capable of, good, able, apt, fit for: Demosthenes non semper implet aures meas: ita sunt avidae et capaces, etc., * Cic. Or. 29, 104: “ingenium,great, Ov. M. 8, 533: “animi ad praecepta,id. ib. 8, 243: “animo majora capaci,id. ib. 15, 5: “capax est animus noster,Sen. Ep. 92, 30.—With gen.: “animal mentis capacius altae (i.e. homo),Ov. M. 1, 76: “imperii,Tac. H. 1, 49; cf. id. A. 1, 13: “aetas honorum nondum capax,id. H. 4, 42: “molis tantae mens,id. A. 1,11: secreti, that can keep or conceal, Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 7: “capacia bonae spei pectora,Curt. 8, 13, 11: “magnorum operum,id. 6, 5, 29: “ingenium omnium bonarum artium capacissimum,Sen. Contr. 2, praef. § “4: cujusque clari operis capacia ingenia,Vell. 1, 16, 2: “bonum et capax recta discendi ingenium,id. 2, 29, 5: “laboris ac fidei,id. 2, 127, 3: “ingenia fecunda et totius naturae capacissima,Plin. 2, 78, 80, § 190: “doli,fit, suitable for, Dig. 43, 4, 1.—
B. In the Lat. of the jurists (cf. capio, II. F.), that has a right to an inheritance, Dig. 34, 3, 29.—Adv.: căpācĭter , Aug. Trin. 11, 2.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.5
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.76
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.172
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.439
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.568
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.243
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.533
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.231
    • Tacitus, Annales, 1.11
    • Tacitus, Annales, 1.13
    • Tacitus, Annales, 2.21
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 1.49
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 4.42
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.123
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 10.93
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 12.11
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 2.17
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 4.26
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 1.12.7
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 7.27.5
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 9, 16
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 10.40
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 92.30
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.8.2
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 6.5.29
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 8.13.11
    • Cicero, Orator, 29.104
    • Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, 2
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