Nar

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Nār, Nāris, m., = Νάρ,

a river of Italy, which rises in the Apennines, flows through a part of the Sabine territory and Umbria, and joins the Tiber , now Nera : Nar amnis exhaurit illos (Velinos lacus) sulphureis aquis, Plin. 3, 12, 17, § 109; cf.: Solporeas posuit spiramina Naris ad undas, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 691 P. (Ann. v. 265 Vahl.); and: audiit amnis Sulfureā Nar albus aquā fontesque Velini, Verg. A. 7, 517; cf. Aus. Idyll. 12 de deis; Ov. M. 14, 330: quod Lacus Velinus in Narem defluit, Cic. Att. 4, 15, 5: Nare ac mox Tiberi devectus, Tac. A. 3, 9.

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