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ὅσον ἀπὸ τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἐφεωρᾶτο τῆς νήσου → as much of the island as was in view from the temple

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ăd-ulter: ĕri, m., and ădultĕra, ae, f. alter, acc. to Fest.: adulter et adultera dicuntur, quia et ille ad alteram et haec ad alterum se conferunt, p. 22 Müll., orig.
I one who approaches another (from unlawful or criminal love), an adulterer or adulteress (as an adj. also, but only in the poets).
I Prop.: quis ganeo, quis nepos, quis adulter, quae mulier infamis, etc., Cic. Cat. 2, 4: sororis adulter Clodius, id. Sest. 39; so id. Fin. 2, 9; Ov. H. 20, 8; Tac. A. 3, 24; Vulg. Deut. 22, 22: adultera, Hor. C. 3, 3, 25; Ov. M. 10, 347; Quint. 5, 10, 104; Suet. Calig. 24; Vulg. Deut. 22, 22; and with mulier: via mulieris adulterae, ib. Prov. 30, 20; ib. Ezech. 16, 32.—Also of animals: adulter, Grat. Cyneg. 164; Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 304: adultera, Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 43.—Poet. in gen. of unlawful love, without the access. idea of adultery, a paramour: Danaën munierant satis nocturnis ab adulteris, Hor. C. 3, 16, 1 sq.; so id. ib. 1, 36, 19; Ov. Ib. 338.—
II Adulter solidorum, i. e. monetae, a counterfeiter or adulterator of coin, Const. 5, Cod. Th.—
III The offspring of unlawful love: nothus, a bastard (eccl.): adulteri et non filii estis, Vulg. Heb. 12, 8.
ădulter: -tĕra, -tĕrum, adj. (Rudd. I. p. 51, n. 36), for adulterinus,
I adulterous, unchaste: crines, finely-curled hair, like that of a full-dressed paramour, Hor. C. 1, 15, 19: mens, that thinks only of illicit love, Ov. Am. 3, 4, 5: clavis, a key to the chamber of a courtesan, id. A. A. 3, 643.—
II Transf., counterfeit, false: imitatio solidi, Cod. Th. 9, 22, 1.