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cărĭes , em, ē (other cases appear not to be in use), f.
I. Decay, caries (prop. of a hard, dry decay, not of rottenness); of wood, Varr. ap. Non. p. 83, 12; Vitr. 7, 3; Col. 11, 2; Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 188; 16, 39, 76, § 197; 16, 40, 78, § 212; Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 27.— “Of walls,” Amm. 16, 2, 1.—Of bones, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 21, 24; Cels. 8, 2.—Of dry soil, Col. 3, 11.—Of the taste of old wine, flatness, Col. 3, 2, 17; Plin. 15, 2, 3, § 7; 23, 1, 22, § 40; 14, 4, 6, § 55.—Of old fiuit, Mart. 13, 29, 1.—Hence,
II. Trop., in ridicule, of old, withered persons: nemo illā vivit carie cariosior, Afran. ap. Non. p. 21, 27; Turp. ib.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Vitruvius, On Architecture, 7.3
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 15.7
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 23.40
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 8.2
    • Ovid, Tristia, 5.12
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 3.11
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 3.2.17
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