caesius
Οὐκ ἔστιν αἰσχρὸν ἀγνοοῦντα μανθάνειν → Non est inhonestum ea, quae nescis, discere → nicht schändlich ist's, dass einer lernt, was er nicht weiß
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
caesĭus: a, um, adj. cf. caeruleus,
I bluish gray; very rare, and only of the eyes, cat-eyed: virgo caesia, Ter Heaut. 5, 5, 18; v. Don. in h. l. and Gell. 2, 26, 19: isto modo dicere licebit caesios oculos Minervae, caeruleos esse Neptuni, Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 83 (cf. in Gr. γλαυκῶπις Αθήνη): caesia, Παλλάδιον, has she gray eyes? she is the impersonation of Pallas, * Lucr. 4, 1161: caesius, Ter Hec. 3, 4, 26 (glaucis oculis, quasi felis oculos habens et glaucos, Don.): hunc, judices, dico, rubrum, brevem, incurvum, canum, subcrispum, caesium, Auct. Her. 4, 49, 63: leo, Cat. 45, 7: sub septentrionibus nutriuntur gentes immanibus corporibus oculis caesiis, Vitr. 6, 1.—Sup. caesissimus, acc. to Varr. L. L. 8, § 76 Müll.—Comp. not in use.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
(1) cæsĭus,¹⁴ a, um, tirant sur le vert : cæsii oculi Cic. Nat. 1, 83, yeux pers, cf. Gell. 2, 26, 19 ; Fest. 273
