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|lshtext=<b>prīmōris</b>: e (<br /><b>I</b> nom. [[sing]]. not in [[use]]), adj. [[primus]], the [[first]], [[first]] ([[class]]. in <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>).<br /><b>I</b> In gen. ([[rare]]): imbres, Varr. R. R. 2, 2: dentes, the [[front]] teeth, Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 70: in primore pueritiā, in earliest [[childhood]], Gell. 10, 19, 3: anni, [[first]], earliest, Sil. 1, 511: primori Marte, in the [[first]] [[part]] or [[beginning]] of the [[war]], id. 11, 143: primore aspectu, at [[first]] [[sight]], Gell. 2, 7, 6.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> The [[foremost]] [[part]], forepart, [[tip]], [[end]], [[extremity]] ([[class]].; syn. [[primus]]): sumere aliquid digitulis primoribus, [[with]] the tips of one's fingers, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 24: versabatur mihi ([[nomen]]) in labris primoribus, is at my [[tongue]]'s [[end]], id. Trin. 4, 2, 65: aliquid primoribus labris attingere, to [[touch]] [[slightly]], Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 87; cf. id. Cael. 12, 28; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 428, 3: surculum primorem praeacuito obliquum primores digitos duos, [[Cato]], R. R. 40, 3; Lucil. ap. Non. 427, 27: eduxique animam in primoribu' naribus, id. ib. 427, 32: nasi [[primoris]] [[acumen]], Lucr. 6, 1193: ([[pilo]]) primori inest [[pyxis]] [[ferrea]], Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 112; 10, 33, 51, § 99: [[cauda]] [[late]] fusa primori parte, id. 8, 54, 80, § 216: [[vestibulum]] esse partem [[domus]] primorem, Gell. 16, 5, 2: in primore [[libro]], at the [[beginning]] of the [[book]], Gell. 1, 18, 3: [[usque]] in primores [[manus]] ac [[prope]] in digitos, as [[far]] as the forepart of the hands, id. 7, 12: primori in acie versari, Tac. H. 3, 21.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> The [[first]] in [[rank]] or [[dignity]], [[chief]], [[principal]] ([[poet]]. and postclass.—In Liv. 24, 20, 13, Weissenb. reads: inpigre conscriptā; v. also Madvig. ad Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 52): Argivorum viri, Cat. 68, 87: feminae, Tac. A. 2, 29: venti, [[chief]], [[cardinal]], Gell. 2, 22.—Hence, subst.: prīmō-res, um, m.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The [[front]] [[rank]] in [[battle]], etc.: dum [[inter]] primores promptius dimicat, sagittā [[ictus]] est, Curt. 4, 6, 17.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The men of the [[first]] [[rank]], the chiefs, nobles, patricians (cf. [[princeps]]): Amphitruo delegit viros primorum principes, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 49: [[odio]] alienae honestatis [[ereptus]] primoribus [[ager]], Liv. 1, 47, 11: primores populi arripuit, Hor. S. 2, 1, 69: civitatum primores [[atque]] optimates, Col. 12, 3, 10: primores, ac duces, Juv. 15, 40: ex primoribus, Tac. A. 13, 30; 4, 33; Vulg. 2 Macc. 8, 9.