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|lshtext=<b>lăpis</b>: ĭdis (abl. lapi, Enn. ap. Prisc. 708 P.;<br /><b>I</b> gen. plur. lapiderum, C. Gell. ap. [[Charis]]. p. 40 P.), m. (f.: tanto sublatae sunt augmine [[tunc]] lapides, Enn. ap. Non. 211, 9) [etym. dub.; perh. from [[same]] [[root]] [[with]] [[rupes]]; cf. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 545; not [[connected]] [[with]] [[λᾶας]]>, Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 542], a [[stone]] (cf.: [[saxum]], [[silex]], [[cautes]], cos, [[calculus]]).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.: stillicidi [[casus]] lapidem cavat, Lucr. 1, 313: [[undique]] lapides in murum jaci coepti sunt, Caes. B. G. 2, 6; cf. Cic. Mil. 15, 41: [[pars]] [[eminus]] glande aut lapidibus pugnare, Sall. J. 57, 4: lapide [[percussus]], Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 33: lapidem habere, ut [[illi]] [[cerebrum]] excutiam, id. Capt. 3, 4, 69; cf. Cic. de Or. 2, 47, 197: [[consul]] ingentem vim modicorum, qui [[funda]] mitti possent, lapidum paraverat, Liv. 38, 20, 1; Gell. 4, 14, 3 sqq.: e lapide [[duro]] parietes construere, Plin. 36, 22, 51, § 171: [[lapis]] [[duritia]] marmoris, id. 36, 22, 46, § 163: [[bibulus]], sandstone, pumice-[[stone]], Verg. G. 2, 348: [[molaris]], a millstone, Quint. 2, 19, 3; cf.: num me illue ducis, ubi [[lapis]] lapidem terit? i. e. [[into]] the [[mill]], Plaut. As. 1, 1, 16: [[Parius]], Parian [[stone]], i. e. Parian [[marble]], Verg. A. 1, 593: lapide candidiore diem notare, i. e. to [[mark]] [[with]] a [[white]] [[stone]] the luckiest [[day]], Cat. 68, 148; cf. [[lapillus]].—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop. for [[dulness]], [[stupidity]], [[want]] of [[feeling]]: ego me credidi homini docto rem mandare: is lapidi [[mando]] maximo, Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 47: i, [[quid]] stas, [[lapis]]? [[quin]] accipis? Ter. Heaut. 4, 7, 3; cf. id. ib. 5, 1, 43: tu, [[inquam]], [[mulier]], quae me [[omnino]] lapidem, non hominem putas, id. Hec. 2, 1, 17; and [[with]] [[silex]] (q. v.): tu es lapide silice stultior, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 78; cf.: lapides mehercule omnes flere ac lamentari coëgisses, Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 245: [[lapis]] est ferrumque suam [[quicumque]] puellam verberat, Tib. 1, 10, 59: aut [[mare]] prospiciens in saxo [[frigida]] sedi, quamque [[lapis]] [[sedes]], tam [[lapis]] ipsa fui, Ov. H. 19, 30.—Prov.: lapidem ferre altera manu, altera panem ostentare, i. e. to [[flatter]] [[openly]] and [[injure]] [[secretly]], Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 18: verberare lapidem, i. e. to [[hurt]] one's [[self]] [[more]] [[than]] one's [[enemy]], id. Curc. 1, 3, 41: lapides loqui, to [[speak]] [[hard]] words, id. Aul. 2, 1, 29: ad eundem lapidem bis offendere, to [[commit]] the [[same]] [[error]] [[twice]], Aus. Ep. 11; so, bis ad eundem (sc. lapidem), Cic. Fam. 10, 20, 2.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[mile]]-[[stone]], [[set]] up on the roads at [[every]] [[thousand]] paces, [[which]] made a Roman [[mile]]; [[hence]], [[with]] an ordinal [[numeral]] added to [[denote]] [[distance]] in [[miles]]: ad [[quartum]] et vicesimum lapidem a [[Roma]], Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 14; cf.: effoditur ad vigesimum ab Urbe lapidem, Plin. 33, 12, 56, § 159: sacra videt fieri [[sextus]] ab Urbe [[lapis]], Ov. F. 6, 682: [[intra]] vicesimum lapidem, Liv. 5, 4 fin.: duodecimum [[apud]] lapidem, Tac. A. 3, 45: a [[tertio]] lapide, Flor. 2, 6 fin.: ad lapidem undecimum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 250 Müll.—Sometimes ellipt. [[without]] [[lapis]]: ad duodecimum a [[Cremona]], Tac. H. 2, 24: ad [[quartum]], id. ib. 2, 39: ad octavum, id. ib. 3, 15.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> The [[stone]] or [[stone]] [[elevation]] on [[which]] the prætor stood at slavesales: in eo ipso astas lapide, ubi [[praeco]] praedicat, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 7, 17; Col. 3, 3, 8: [[praeter]] duos de lapide emptos tribunos, Cic. Pis. 15, 35.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Terminalis, a [[landmark]], [[boundary]]-[[stone]], Amm. 18, 2, 15; called [[lapis]] [[alone]], Lact. 1, 20 fin.; so, [[lapis]] [[sacer]], Liv. 41, 13; cf.: non [[fixus]] in agris, qui regeret certis finibus arva, [[lapis]], Tib. 1, 3, 44; cf. id. 1, 1, 12.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> A [[gravestone]], tombstone, Prop. 3 (4), 1, 37; Tib. 1, 3, 54; called also [[ultimus]], Prop. 1, 17, 20.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>E</b> A [[precious]] [[stone]], [[gem]], [[jewel]], pearl ([[mostly]] [[poet]].), Cat. 69, 3: gemmas et lapides, Hor. C. 3, 24, 48: clari lapides, id. ib. 4, 13, 14; Ov. A. A. 1, 432; Sil. 12, 231; Mart. 11, 50, 4; Tac. A. 3, 53; Macr. S. 7, 13, 11.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>F</b> A [[statue]]: Jovem lapidem jurare, the [[statue]] of Jupiter at the [[Capitol]], Cic. Fam. 7, 12, 2; Gell. 1, 21, 4; v. [[Iuppiter]].—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [[Meton]].: [[albus]], a [[table]] of [[white]] [[marble]], a [[marble]] [[table]], Hor. S. 1, 6, 116.
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