bimembris

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

bĭmembris, e, adj. [bis - membrum],

I having double members : puer, half man , half beast , Juv. 13, 64; most freq. a poet. epithet of the Centaurs ( half man , half horse; cf. bicorpor and biformis): Centauri bimembres, Sil. 3, 41: forma bimembris, Ov. H. 9, 99.—

II Subst.: bĭmembres , ium, comm., = Centauri, the Centaurs : nubigenae, * Verg. A. 8, 293 Heyn. and Jahn; Ov. M. 12, 240; 12, 494; 15, 283; Stat. Th. 12, 554.

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