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|lshtext=<b>Līber</b>: ĕri ([[Sabine]] collat. form, loebasius, acc. to Serv. Verg. G. 1, 7; cf. 1. [[liber]], and [[libertas]]<br /><b>I</b> init.), m. Gr. [[λείβω]], to [[pour]]; [[λοιβή]], a [[drink]] - [[offering]]; Lat. libare, an old Italian [[deity]], [[who]] presided [[over]] planting and fructification; [[afterwards]] identified [[with]] the Greek [[Bacchus]]: hunc [[dico]] Liberum Semelā natum, non eum, quem nostri majores [[auguste]] sancteque Liberum cum Cerere et [[Libera]] consecraverunt. Sed [[quod]] ex nobis natos liberos appellamus, [[idcirco]] Cerere nati nominati sunt [[Liber]] et [[Libera]]: [[quod]] in [[Libera]] [[servant]], in Libero non [[item]], Cic. N. D. 2, 24, 62; cf. Serv. Verg. G. 1, 5; Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 19: [[tertio]] (invocabo) Cererem et Liberum, [[quod]] horum [[fructus]] [[maxime]] necessarii ad victum: ab his [[enim]] [[cibus]] et [[potio]] venit e [[fundo]], Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 5: [[Liber]] et alma [[Ceres]], Verg. G. 1, 7: ex aede Liberi, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 57, § 128; in a [[pun]] [[with]] 1. [[liber]], Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 46; cf. id. Curc. 1, 2, 21; id. Stich. 5, 4, 17; so in a [[pun]] [[with]] [[liber]], [[free]]: quiaque [[adeo]] me complevi flore Liberi, Magis libera uti [[lingua]] collibitum est mihi, Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 8; cf.: [[salve]], anime mi, [[lepos]] Liberi, ut veteris ego [[sum]] cupida, etc., id. Curc. 1, 2, 3.— Connected [[with]] [[pater]]: sic [[factum]], ut Libero patri repertori [[vitis]] hirci immolarentur, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 19: [[Romulus]] et [[Liber]] [[pater]], Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 5: per vestigia Liberi patris, Plin. 4, 10, 17, § 39: patre favente Libero fetis palmitibus, Col. 3, 21, 3: Libero patri in monte res divina celebratur, Macr. S. 1, 18, 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> [[Meton]]., [[wine]]: illud, [[quod]] erat a deo donatum, nomine ipsius dei nuncupabant: ut cum [[fruges]] Cererem appellamus, [[vinum]] [[autem]] Liberum: ex quo illud Terentii (Eun. 4, 5, 6): [[sine]] Cerere et Libero friget [[Venus]], Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 60: Liberum et Cererem pro vino et [[pane]], Quint. 8, 6, 24; cf. also Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 4 [[supra]]: sed pressum Calibus ducere Liberum Si gestis, etc., Hor. C. 4, 12, 14: condita cum [[verax]] aperit [[praecordia]] [[Liber]], id. S. 1, 4, 89.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=(3) <b>Lībĕr</b>,¹⁰ ĕrī, m., vieille divinité latine, confondue [[plus]] tard avec [[Bacchus]] : [[Varro]] R. 1, 1, 5 ; Cic. Nat. 2, 62 || [fig.] le vin : Ter. Eun. 732 ; Hor. O. 4, 12, 14. Leiber CIL 1, 562.
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