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|lshtext=<b>pŭer</b>: ĕri (old voc. puere, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 2; 5, 2, 42; id. Most. 4, 2, 32 et saep.; Caecil. and Afran. ap. Prisc. p. 697 P.;<br /><b>I</b> gen. plur. puerūm, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 50), m. (v. [[infra]]) [[root]] pu-, to [[beget]]; v. pudes; and cf. [[pupa]], [[putus]], orig. a [[child]], [[whether]] [[boy]] or [[girl]]: pueri appellatione [[etiam]] [[puella]] significatur, Dig. 50, 16, 163.—Thus, as fem.: sancta [[puer]] Saturni [[filia]], [[regina]], Liv. And. ap. Prisc. p. 697 P.: prima incedit Cereris [[Proserpina]] [[puer]], i.e. [[daughter]] of [[Ceres]], Naev. ib. p. 697 P.: mea [[puer]], mea [[puer]], Poët. ap. [[Charis]]. p. 64 P.; Ael. Stil. and As. ib. p. 64 P.—Hence, freq. in the | |lshtext=<b>pŭer</b>: ĕri (old voc. puere, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 2; 5, 2, 42; id. Most. 4, 2, 32 et saep.; Caecil. and Afran. ap. Prisc. p. 697 P.;<br /><b>I</b> gen. plur. puerūm, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 50), m. (v. [[infra]]) [[root]] pu-, to [[beget]]; v. pudes; and cf. [[pupa]], [[putus]], orig. a [[child]], [[whether]] [[boy]] or [[girl]]: pueri appellatione [[etiam]] [[puella]] significatur, Dig. 50, 16, 163.—Thus, as fem.: sancta [[puer]] Saturni [[filia]], [[regina]], Liv. And. ap. Prisc. p. 697 P.: prima incedit Cereris [[Proserpina]] [[puer]], i.e. [[daughter]] of [[Ceres]], Naev. ib. p. 697 P.: mea [[puer]], mea [[puer]], Poët. ap. [[Charis]]. p. 64 P.; Ael. Stil. and As. ib. p. 64 P.—Hence, freq. in the plur. pueri, children, in gen., Plaut. Poen. prol. 28; 30: infantium puerorum [[incunabula]], Cic. Rosc. Am. 53, 153: [[cinis]] eorum pueros [[tarde]] dentientes adjuvat cum melle, Plin. 30, 3, 8, § 22; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 7; id. C. 4, 9, 24.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br /> <b>1</b> A [[male]] [[child]], a [[boy]], [[lad]], [[young]] [[man]] ([[strictly]] [[till]] the seventeenth [[year]], [[but]] freq. applied to those [[who]] are [[much]] [[older]]): puero [[isti]] [[date]] mammam, Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 1: [[aliquam]] puero nutricem para, Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 104; 5, 2, 4: homini [[ilico]] lacrimae cadunt Quasi puero, id. Ad. 4, 1, 21: quo portas puerum? id. And. 4, 3, 7: nescire [[quid]] [[antea]] [[quam]] [[natus]] sis, acciderit, id est [[semper]] esse puerum, Cic. Or. 34, 120; Ov. P. 4, 12, 20: [[laudator]] temporis acti Se puero, [[when]] he [[was]] a [[boy]], Hor. A. P. 173; cf.: foeminae praetextatique pueri et puellae, Suet. Claud. 35.—A puero, and [[with]] plur. [[verb]], a pueris (cf. Gr. ἐκ παιδός, ἐκ παίδων), from a [[boy]], [[boyhood]], or [[childhood]] (cf. ab): doctum hominem cognovi, idque a puero, Cic. Fam. 13, 16, 4; id. Ac. 2, 3, 8: diligentiā matris a puero [[doctus]], id. Brut. 27, 104; Hor S. 1, 4, 97: ad eas artes, quibus a pueris dediti fuimus, Cic. de Or. 1, 1, 2.—In [[like]] [[manner]]: ut [[primum]] ex pueris excessit [[Archias]], as [[soon]] as he ceased to be a [[child]], Cic. Arch. 3, 4.—<br /> <b>2</b> A [[grown]]-up [[youth]], [[young]] [[man]], Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 2: [[puer]] [[egregius]] [[praesidium]] sibi [[primum]] et nobis, [[deinde]] summae rei publicae comparavit, of Octavian at the [[age]] of [[nineteen]], id. ib. 12, 25, 4 (cf. Vell. 2, 61, 1; Tac. A. 13, 6); cf. of the [[same]]: [[nomen]] clarissimi adulescentis vel pueri [[potius]], Cic. Phil. 4, 1, 3; of [[Scipio]] [[Africanus]], at the [[age]] of [[twenty]], Sil. 15, 33; 44 (coupled [[with]] juvenis, id. 15, 10 and 18); of [[Pallas]], in [[military]] [[command]], Verg. A. 11, 42.—<br /> <b>3</b> An [[unmarried]] [[man]], a [[bachelor]], Ov. F. 4, 226.—<br /> <b>4</b> As a [[pet]] [[name]], or in [[familiar]] [[address]], [[boy]], [[fellow]], Cat. 12, 9; Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 17.—<br /> <b>B</b> Transf.<br /> <b>1</b> A [[little]] [[son]], a [[son]] ([[poet]].), Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 72: [[Ascanius]] [[puer]], Verg. A. 2, 598: tuque ([[Venus]]) puerque [[tuus]] (Cupido), id. ib. 4, 94; cf. Hor. C. 1, 32, 10: Latonae [[puer]], id. ib. 4, 6, 37: Semeles [[puer]], id. ib. 1, 19, 2: deorum pueri, id. A. P. 83; 185.—<br /> <b>2</b> A [[boy]] for [[attendance]], a [[servant]], [[slave]]: [[cedo]] aquam manibus, [[puer]], Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 150; Cic. Rosc. Am. 28, 77: Persicos odi, [[puer]], [[apparatus]], Hor. C. 1, 38, 1; 2, 11, 18; 4, 11, 10: hic vivum mihi cespitem ponite, pueri, id. ib. 1, 19, 14: [[cena]] ministratur pueris [[tribus]], id. S. 1, 6, 116: tum pueri nautis, pueris convicia nautae Ingerere, id. ib. 1, 5, 11: regii, [[royal]] [[pages]], Liv. 45, 6; Curt. 5, 2, 13: litteratissimi, Nep. Att. 13, 3; Juv. 11, 59; Dig. 50, 16, 204.—*<br /> <b>3</b> As adj., [[youthful]]: [[puera]] [[facies]], Paul. Nol. Carm. 25, 217. | ||
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