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|lshtext=<b>ef-fētus</b>: (not [[effoetus]]), a, um, adj.,<br /><b>I</b> [[that]] has brought [[forth]] [[young]], [[that]] has laid eggs ([[mostly]] [[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit. ([[mostly]] in Col.): cum effetae loca genitalia tumebunt, Col. 7, 7, 4; 7, 12, 11; 9, 1, 7.—Poet.: [[simul]] effetas linquunt examina [[ceras]], Luc. 9, 285.—<br /><b>II</b> [[Meton]]. ([[causa]] pro effectu).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Exhausted, [[worn]] [[out]] by [[bearing]]: aliquae (gallinae) in [[tantum]], ut effetae moriantur, Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 146; cf. Sall. C. 53, 5.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., in gen., exhausted, [[worn]] [[out]]: [[tellus]], * Lucr. 2, 1150; cf.: effetum et defatigatum [[solum]], Col. praef. § 1: [[natura]] ([[with]] lassa), Plin. Ep. 6, 21, 1: tauri [[senio]] effeti, Col. 6, 24, 1: [[corpus]], * Cic. de Sen. 9, 29; cf. [[vires]] (corporis), Verg. A. 5, 396: [[spes]], i. e. [[vain]], [[delusive]], Val. Fl. 4, 380.—Poet.: verique effeta [[senectus]], [[incapacitated]] for [[truth]], Verg. A. 7, 440 (cf.: Vana veri, id. ib. 10, 630).— Comp.: [[oratio]] effetior, App. Flor. p. 366.— Sup. and adv. do not [[occur]].