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|lshtext=<b>vĕternus</b>: a, um, adj. [[vetus]],<br /><b>I</b> of [[great]] [[age]], old, [[ancient]] ([[only]] [[post]]-[[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> Adj.: [[rupes]], Fulg. Myth. 1 praef.: silentia, Prud. Cath. 9, 68.—<br /><b>II</b> Subst.: vĕter-nus, i, m. *<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Old [[age]], [[age]], Stat. Th. 6, 94.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Old [[dirt]] ([[post]]-Aug. and [[very]] [[rare]]), Col. 4, 24, 6; App. M. 9, p. 223.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Lethargy, [[somnolence]] (as a [[disease]] of [[aged]] [[people]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lit.: num eum [[veternus]] aut [[aqua]] [[intercus]] [[tenet]]? Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3.—Of the [[deep]], [[long]] [[sleep]] or torpidity of bears, Plin. 8, 36, 54, § 127.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trop., [[drowsiness]], [[dulness]], [[sluggishness]], [[sloth]] (freq., [[but]] not in Cic.), Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 4 (cited ap. Cic. Fam. 2, 13, 3); Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 10; Verg. G. 1, 124; Cat. 17, 24; Col. 7, 5, 3; 7, 10, 4; App. Flor. 3, p. 357.<br /><b>vĕternus</b>: i, v. 1. [[veternus]], II.