terrigena

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

terrĭgĕna, ae, comm. (neutr. plur. adj.: terrigena animalia, Tert. adv. Marc. 2, 12) [terra-gigno],

born of or from the earth , earth-born; a poet. epithet of the first men, Lucr. 5, 1411; 5, 1427; Amm. 19, 8, 11.—Of the men who sprang up from the dragon's teeth which had been sown, Ov. M. 3, 118; 7, 141; id. H. 6, 35; 12, 99, Val. Fl. 7, 505.— Of Typhoeus, Ov. M. 5, 325.—Of the giants, Val. Fl. 2, 18; Sil. 9, 306.—Of the serpent, Sil. 6, 254; Stat. Th. 5, 506.—Of the snail, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64, 133.—Of men in general, Vulg. Psa. 48, 3.

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