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^lĭquĭae (in the poets, also rellĭqu- ; cf. religio
I.init.), ārum (gen. sing. reliquiae, App. Apol. ap. Carm. p. 277, 13), f. relinquo, I. B. 1., the leavings, remains, relics, remnant, rest, remainder of any thing.
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: “is navem atque omnia, perdidit in mari, Haec bonorum ejus sunt reliquiae,Plaut. Rud. 1, 3, 17; cf.: “de bonis quod restat reliquiarum,id. ib. 5, 1, 7: “paucorum mensum sunt relictae reliquiae,id. Most. 1, 1, 81 Lorenz ad loc.; cf. exercitūs, Auct. B. Alex. 40 fin.: “copiarum,Nep. Them. 5, 1; cf.: “tantae cladis,Liv. 22, 56; 43, 10: “pugnae,id. 5, 12: “belli,id. 9, 29; Sall. H. 1, 48, 8 Dietsch; Vell. 2, 17, 1: “legionum,id. 2, 46, 4: “dum belli reliquiae peraguntur,Just. 22, 8, 6; 15: “Danaūm,” i. e. the remnant of the Trojans who had escaped from the hands of the Greeks, Verg. A. 1, 30; 598; 3, 87 al.: “hujus generis reliquias restare video (sc. hominum),Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 90: gladiatoriae familiae, * Caes. B. C. 21, 4: “cibi,excrements, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 138; so absol., Sen. Const. 13, 1: “hordei,Phaedr. 5, 4, 3: “vini,id. 3, 1, 6: “virorum,Verg. A. 8, 356: “limae,Plin. 34, 7, 18, § 44; cf. Vulg. Exod. 8, 3.—
B. In partic.
1. The leavings, remains, remnants, fragments of food (cf.: “cenarum reliquiae,App. M. 2, p. 125, 22), Plaut. Curc. 3, 18: “immo si scias reliquiae quae sint,id. ib. 2, 3, 42: “cras de reliquiis nos volo,id. Stich. 3, 2, 40: “reliquias ubi videro,id. Men. 1, 2, 33; 3, 1, 15; id. Pers. 1, 3, 25: Phaedr. 1, 22, 6; Suet. Galb. 22; Petr. 6.— Hence in a double sense: vellem Idibus Martiis me ad cenam (i. e. to the assassination of Cæsar) invitasses: reliquiarum (i. e. Antony) nihil fuisset, Cic. Fam. 12, 4, 1. —
3. The (unconsumed) remains of the flesh of a sacrifice (different from exta), Suet. Aug. 1.—
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