seminudus

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

sēmĭ-nūdus, a, um, adj., half-naked (not ante-Aug.).

I Lit.: consules, prope seminudi sub jugum missi, Liv. 9, 6; 24, 40; Suet. Vit. 17; Front. Princ. Hist. p. 318.—As subst.: ille seminudus, Sen. Ep. 6, 2, 2.—

B Transf., half-unarmed , almost defenceless : pedes vagus et prope seminudus, Liv. 31, 35, 6.—

II Trop.: sententiae, Front. Ep. ad Anton. 1, 2.

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