I.halfbestial, half man and half beast.
I. Lit.: “semifer interea divinae stirpis alumno Laetus erat,” i. e. the Centaur Chiron, Ov. M. 2, 633; “so of the Centaurs,” id. ib. 12, 406; Stat. Th. 9, 220; Luc. 6, 386: caput Panis, Lucr. 4, 587: “pectus (Tritonis),” Verg. A. 10, 212: “corpus Capricorni (because half goat and half fish),” Cic. Arat. 59 Orell. N. cr.: “species hominum (with portenta),” Lucr. 2, 702 et saep.—
II. Trop., half-wild, half-savage: “(Cacus),” Verg. A. 8, 267 (for which, semihomo, id. ib. 194): “glires semiferum animal,” Plin. 8, 57, 82, § 224: “proles (canis),” Grat. Cyn. 253: “genus hominum,” Plin. 6, 19, 22, § 66; Sil. 3, 542.
