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|lshtext=<b>thēsaurus</b>: (old form [[thensaurus]], Plaut. Trin. prol. p. ciii. Ritschl; cf. Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 590; collat. form thensau-rum, n., Petr. 46, 8), i, m., = [[θησαυρός]].<br /><b>I</b> Any [[thing]] laid or stored up, a [[hoard]], [[treasure]], [[provision]], [[store]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.: TABVLARIVS THENSAVRORVM, Inscr. Orell. 3247: thensaurum effodere, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 53; 4, 4, 8; id. Ps. 2, 2, 33; id. Aul. prol. 7: thesaurum defodere ... invenire, Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134: nec [[vero]] quemquam senem audivi oblitum, quo [[loco]] thesaurum obruisset, id. Sen. 7, 21: non [[exercitus]] [[neque]] thensauri praesidia regni sunt, [[verum]] amici, Sall. J. 10, 4: intactis opulentior Thesauris Arabum, Hor. C. 3, 24, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Law t. t., [[treasure]] trove: [[thensaurus]] est [[vetus]] quaedam [[depositio]] pecuniae, cujus non exstat [[memoria]], ut jam dominum non habeat, Dig. 41, 1, 31, § 1; 41, 2, 3, § 3; Cod. 10, 15, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop. ([[very]] [[rare]]): [[thesaurus]] mali, a [[great]] [[quantity]], Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 54: stupri, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 456, 19; cf.: augent ex [[pauxillo]]; thensaurum [[inde]] pariunt, id. Most. 4, 1, 8: thesauros [[penitus]] abditae fraudis vultu [[laeto]] tegentes, App. M. 5, p. 165, 15. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of persons, a [[treasure]], [[loved]] one, a [[valued]] or [[dear]] [[object]]: Di. Quid, [[amator]] novos [[quispiam]]? Ast. Integrum et plenum adortust thensaurum, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 13; cf. id. ib. 2, 1, 34: [[eccum]] lenonem, incedit, thensaurum [[meum]], id. Curc. 5, 2, 76; cf.: [[thensaurus]] copiarum, id. As. 3, 3, 67.—<br /><b>II</b> A [[place]] [[where]] [[any]] [[thing]] is stored up, a storehouse, [[treasure]] - [[chamber]], [[treasure]] - [[vault]], [[treasury]] (cf.: [[cella]], [[armarium]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.: [[monedula]] condens semina in thesauros cavernarum, id. 17, 14, 22, § 99; cf. [[poet]]., of the cells of bees, Verg. G. 4, 229: admonent [[quidam]], esse thesaurum publicum sub terrā saxo quadrato [[septum]], Liv. 39, 50, 3: Proserpinae, id. 29, 8, 9; 29, 18, 4; 31, 12, 1; cf. [[poet]]. of the Lower World: [[postquam]] est Orcino [[traditus]] thesauro, Naev. ap. Gell. 1, 24, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Esp., a [[strong]]-[[box]], [[treasure]]-[[chest]]: cum thesaurum effregisset [[heres]], Plin. 34, 7, 17, § 37: apertis thesauris suis, Vulg. Matt. 2, 11.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., a [[repository]], conservatory, [[magazine]], [[collection]], Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 12: [[quid]] dicam de thesauro rerum omnium, [[memoria]]? Cic. de Or. 1, 5, 18; Quint. 11, 2, 1; cf.: thesauri argumentorum, Cic. Part. Or. 31, 109: suppeditat nobis [[Atticus]] [[noster]] de thesauris suis quos et quantos viros, id. Fin. 2, 21, 67: thesauros [[oportet]] esse non libros, Plin. praef. § 17; cf.: mihi quoties aliquid abditum [[quaero]], [[ille]] [[thesaurus]] est, a [[literary]] storehouse, Plin. Ep. 1, 22, 2.—<br /><b>III</b> The [[title]] of a Greek [[play]] by Philemon, [[upon]] [[which]] [[Plautus]] founded the [[Trinummus]], Plaut. Trin. prol. 18.

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