maceria: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>mācĕrĭa</b>: ae ([[post]]-[[class]]. form, mācĕ-rĭes, [[only]] nom. and acc., Afran. ap. Non. 138; Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 11; Prud. Hamart. 227; Inscr. Grut. 611, 13; Inscr. Orell. 4057), f. from [[macero]], to [[soften]]; orig. a [[wall]] built of [[soft]] [[clay]]; cf. Gr. [[μάσσω]],<br /><b>I</b> an [[enclosure]], a [[wall]] ([[class]].): maceriam [[sine]] calce ex caementis et silice altam [[pedes]] [[quinque]] facito, [[Cato]], R. R. 15; cf. Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 4; 3, 5, 12: [[quid]] [[maceria]] [[illa]] ait in horto, quaest quae in noctes singulas latere [[fit]] [[minor]]? Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 49: hanc in horto maceriam jube dirui, Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 10: [[herba]] in maceriis [[nascens]], Plin. 25, 5, 19, § 43: nulla [[maceria]], nulla [[casa]], Cic. Fam. 16, 18, 2: [[post]] villarum macerias, Sisenn. ap. Non. 141, 23: fossam et maceriam [[sex]] in altitudinem [[pedum]] praeduxerant, Caes. B. G. 7, 69; 7, 70: [[maceria]] ab [[laeva]] semitae [[paulum]] exstans a fundamenta, Liv. 42, 15.—<br /><b>II</b> Affliction: facere [[illi]] [[satis]] vis, quanta illius [[mors]] [[sit]] [[maceries]] [[tibi]]? Afran. ap. Non. 138, 13 (Com. Rel. v. 150 Rib.).