Gaius

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Gāĭus: (less correctly Cāĭus;
I trisyl., Cat. 10, 30; Mart. 9, 22, 12; 11, 36, 8); gen. Gāi (voc. Gāi, Mart. 10, 16, 1), m., and Gāĭa, ae, f. for Gavius; from gaudeo, a Roman prœnomen, usu. written C.;
v. the letter G. Gaia was written O, Quint. 1, 7, 28; Vel. Long. p. 2218; P. prol. p. 1502.— At marriage festivals it was customary to call the bridegroom and bride Gaius and Gaia, Fest. s. v. Gaia, p. 71; Quint. l. l.; Cic. Mur. 12 fin.—
II In partic.
   A An eminent jurist who lived about A.D. 110-180, author of the Institutionum Commentarii IV., which contain a systematic summary of the Roman law of family relations, of private property, and of actions; and which for generations was a standard educational work on the subject. This work was known, however, to modern scholars only by the fragments preserved in the Pandects, etc., until in 1816 Niebuhr discovered in the Chapter House of Verona a nearly complete MS. of the original work of Gaius, over which works of St. Jerome had been written. Teuffel, Gesch. d. Röm. Lit. p. 812 sqq.—
   B In post-Aug. historians, esp., the emperor Gaius Caligula; hence, Gāiānus or Cāiānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Caligula: custodia, Sen. Tranq. 11: clades, id. ib. 14 fin.: expeditiones, Tac. 4, 15: nex, Suet. Tit. 1: as (because lowered in value by him), Stat. Sil. 4, 9, 22.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

(1) Gāĭus,⁵ Gāī, m., Gāia, æ, f., prénom romain ; anc. orth. Caius, Caia || appellations anciennes du fiancé et de la fiancée (ubi tu Gaius, ego Gaia) : P. Fest. 95 ; Quint. 1, 7, 28 ; Cic. Mur. 27. en poésie tantôt Gāĭŭs, tantôt Gājŭs.
(2) Gāĭus, ī, m., célèbre jurisconsulte, 2^e s. apr. J.-C.