impexus

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

impexus (inp-), a, um, adj. [2. inpexus], uncombed (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Lit.: stiriaque impexis induruit horrida barbis, Verg. G. 3, 366: caput impexa foedum porrigine, Hor. S. 2, 3, 126: Tisiphoneque impexa feros pro crinibus angues, Tib. 1, 3, 69: tegumen immane leonis Terribili impexum seta, Verg. A. 7, 666.— *

II Trop., = incultus, unpolished , rude : antiquitas tristis et impexa, Tac. Or. 20.

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