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|lshtext=<b>mĕdĭcus</b>: a, um [[medeor]],<br /><b>I</b> of or pertaining to [[healing]], [[healing]], curative, [[medical]] (as adj., [[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]).<br /><b>I</b> Adj.: medicas adhibere [[manus]] ad vulnera, Verg. G. 3, 455: ars, Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 12: [[potus]], Nemes. Cyn. 222: vis, Plin. 36, 27, 69, § 202: [[salubritas]], id. 5, 16, 15, § 72: [[usus]], id. 22, 25, 81, § 163: [[digitus]], the [[next]] to the [[little]] [[finger]] (cf. [[medicinalis]]), id. 30, 12, 34, § 108. —*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., magical: Marmaridae, medicum [[vulgus]], ad quorum tactum mites jacuere cerastae, Sil. 3, 300.—<br /><b>II</b> Subst.:<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> mĕdĭcus, i, m.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[medical]] [[man]], [[physician]], [[surgeon]] ([[class]].): [[medicus]] nobilissimus [[atque]] [[optimus]] quaeritur, Cic. Clu. 21, 57: medicum arcessere, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 122: admovere aegro, Suet. Ner. 37: vulnerum, a [[surgeon]], Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 22: caeduntur tumidae [[medico]] ridente mariscae, Juv. 2, 13; cf.: [[medicus]] ait se obligasse [[crus]] fractum Aesculapio, Apollini [[autem]] [[bracchium]], Plaut. Men. 5, 3, 9: MEDICVS CLINICVS, CHIRVRGVS, OCVLARIVS, Inscr. Orell. 2983: AVRICVLARIVS, ib. 4227: IVMENTARIVS, ib. 4229; cf.: medici pecorum, Varr. R. R. 2, 7 fin.: LEGIONIS, Inscr. Orell. 448; 4996: DVPLARIVS TRIREMIS, ib. 3640: [[instrumentum]] medici, Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 62.—Prov.: medice, [[cura]] teipsum, Vulg. Luc. 4, 23.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The [[finger]] [[next]] the [[little]] [[finger]], Gr. [[δάκτυλος]] [[ἰατρικός]], Auct. Her. 3, 20, 33.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> mĕdĭ-ca, ae, f., a [[female]] [[physician]] ([[post]]-[[class]].), App. M. 5, p. 363 Oud.; Inscr. Orell. 4230 sq.; Inscr. Grut. 635, 9; 636, 1 sq.—Also, a [[midwife]], Interpr. Paul. Sent. 2, 24, 8; Ambros. Ep. 5.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> mĕdĭca, ōrum, n., [[medicinal]] herbs, Plin. 19, 5, 27, § 89.
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