bicorpor

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

bĭcorpor, ŏris, adj. [bis-corpus],

having two bodies , double-bodied (poet. and very rare; late prose form bĭcorpŏrĕ-us , Firm. Math. 2, 12): bicorpores Gigantes, Naev. Bell. Pun. 2, 14 (ap. Prisc. p. 679 P.): Pallas bicorpor, Att. ap. Prisc. p. 699 P.; and so besides only in Cic. in a transl. from Sophocl. Trachin.: manus, Tusc. 2, 9, 22.

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