sēmĭ-vĭr, vĭri, m. adj., a half-man, i. q. semihomo and semimas (not anteAug.).
I Lit.
A Half man and half beast , e. g. the Centaur Chiron. Ov. F. 5, 380; the Minotaur, id. A. A. 2, 24 (cf. semibos): Nessus, id. H. 9, 141.—
B An hermaphrodite , Ov. M. 4, 386; Plin. 11, 49, 110, § 263.—
II Transf., emasculated.
A Lit., of a priest of Cybele (cf. semimas), Juv. 6, 513: semiviri chori, Sil. 17, 20: formosum adulescentem semivirum reddidit, Lact. 1, 17, 7. —
B Trop., unmanly , womanish , effeminate : et nunc ille Paris cum semiviro comitatu, Verg. A. 4, 215: Phryx, id. ib. 12, 99; Lact. 1, 10, 9; Stat. Ach. 2, 363.—So esp. of debauchees: qui tam atrocem caedem pertinere ad illos semiviros crederent (for which, just before: molles and obsceni viri), Liv. 33, 28, 7: impure ac semivir, Luc. 8, 552.