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|lshtext=<b>dux</b>: dŭcis, com. [[duco]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[leader]], [[conductor]], [[guide]] (for syn. cf.: [[imperator]], [[ductor]], [[tyrannus]], rex, [[princeps]], [[praetor]], [[auctor]]).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.: illis non ducem locorum, non exploratorem fuisse, Liv. 9, 5, 7; cf. itineris, Curt. 5, 4: itinerum, Caes. B. G. 6, 17, 1: regendae civitatis ([[with]] [[auctor]] publici consilii), Cic. de Or. 3, 17, 63: dux [[isti]] [[quondam]] et [[magister]] ad despoliandum Dianae [[templum]] fuit, id. Verr. 2, 3, 21: nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro, Hor. C. 1, 7, 27: tu dux et [[comes]] es, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 119; id. P. 4, 12, 23 et saep. —In the fem., Cic. Fin. 1, 21, 71; id. Lael. 5, 19; id. Div. 2, 40; id. Tusc. 1, 12, 27; Verg. A. 1, 364; Ov. M. 3, 12; 14, 121 et saep.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic., in milit. lang., a [[leader]], [[commander]], [[general]]-in-[[chief]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Prop., Caes. B. G. 1, 13, 2; 2, 23, 4 ([[with]] qui summam imperii tenebat); 3, 18, 7; 3, 23, 3 et saep.—Prov.: ducis in consilio posita est [[virtus]] militum, Pub. Syr. 136 (Rib.). Also a [[lieutenant]]-[[general]], [[general]] of [[division]] (cf. [[duco]], I. B. 5. b., and [[imperator]]), as opp. to the [[imperator]], Caes. B. G. 3, 21, 1; Cic. Off. 3, 26, 99; id. Fl. 12, 27; Tac. H. 3, 37 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf. [[beyond]] the milit. [[sphere]], a [[leader]], [[chief]], [[head]]: dux regit [[examen]], Hor. Ep. 1, 9, 23; cf. gregis, i. e. [[aries]], Ov. M. 5, 327; 7, 311; so, pecoris, Tib. 2, 1, 58; [[but]] dux gregis = [[pastor]], id. 1, 10, 10: armenti, i. e. [[taurus]], Ov. M. 8, 884; of the [[head]] of a [[sect]] of philosophers, Lucr. 1, 638; cf. Quint. 5, 13, 59; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 13.
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