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Cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet → May he love tomorrow who has never loved before; And may he who has loved, love tomorrow as well.

Pervigilium Veneris

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

gibbus: a, um, adj. cf. κύπτω, κυφός, bent, bowed, crooked; v. gibber,
I hunched, humped, gibbous.
I Adj.: calvaria ex interiore parte concava, extrinsecus gibba, Cels. 8, 1.—
II Subst.
   A gibbus, i, m., a hunch, hump, Juv. 10, 294; 309; 6, 109.—
   B gibba, ae, f., the same, Suet. Dom. 23. —
   2    Transf., a hump-like swelling, protuberance, Amm. 23, 4.
gibbus: i,
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v. the preced. art. II. A.