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|lshtext=<b>sēmĭ-vĭr</b>: vĭri, m. adj.,<br /><b>I</b> a [[half]]-[[man]], i. q. [[semihomo]] and [[semimas]] (not anteAug.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> An hermaphrodite, Ov. M. 4, 386; Plin. 11, 49, 110, § 263.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., emasculated.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit., of a [[priest]] of [[Cybele]] (cf. [[semimas]]), Juv. 6, 513: semiviri chori, Sil. 17, 20: formosum adulescentem semivirum reddidit, Lact. 1, 17, 7. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</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. Achill. 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.
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