latebra: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>lătē&#774;bra</b>: ae, f. [[lateo]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[hiding]]-[[place]], [[lurking]]-[[hole]], [[covert]], [[retreat]] ([[class]].; [[most]] freq. in <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>;<br /> v. [[infra]], II. B.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: ([[aurum]]) in latebris situm est, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 2: [[itaque]] in totis aedibus [[tenebrae]], latebrae, id. Poen. 4, 2, 13: latebris ac silvis aut saltibus se eripere, Caes. B. G. 6, 43: Cappadociae latebris se occultare, Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 3, 7: aliquem in latebras impellere, id. Rab. Perd. 8, 22: at Scyllam caecis cohibet [[spelunca]] latebris, Verg. A. 3, 424: tum latebras animae, [[pectus]] mucrone recludit, the [[hidden]] [[seat]] of [[life]], id. ib. 10, 601: solis [[defectus]] lunaeque latebrae, i. e. eclipses of the [[moon]], Lucr. 5, 751. —In <[[number]] opt="n">[[sing]].</[[number]]>, Cic. Cael. 26, 62: [[extractus]] e [[latebra]], Suet. Vit. 17; id. Ner. 48: bellorum, a [[place]] of [[refuge]] from [[war]], Luc. 5, 743: teli, the [[weapon]]'s [[lurking]]-[[place]], i. e. the [[place]] [[where]] the [[arrow]]-[[head]] [[was]] sticking in his [[body]], Verg. A. 12, 389.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen., a [[lurking]]-[[place]], [[hidden]] [[recess]], [[retreat]]: in latebras abscondas (stultitiam) pectore penitissumo, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 64; Lucr. 1, 408: cum [[illa]] conjuratio ex latebris [[atque]] ex tenebris erupisset, Cic. Sest. 4, 9: latebras suspicionum peragrare, id. Cael. 22, 53; Quint. 12, 9, 3.—In <[[number]] opt="n">[[sing]].</[[number]]>: adhibuit [[etiam]] latebram obscuritatis, Cic. Div. 2, 45, 111: in tabellae [[latebra]], id. Fam. 3, 12, 1: scribendi, a [[secret]] [[mode]] of [[writing]], a [[writing]] in [[cipher]], Gell. 17, 9, 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic., a [[subterfuge]], [[shift]], [[cloak]], [[pretence]], [[feigned]] [[excuse]] ([[only]] in <[[number]] opt="n">[[sing]].</[[number]]>): latebram haberes, Cic. Fin. 2, 33, 107: magnificam in latebram conjecisti, id. Div. 2, 20, 46: videant, ne quaeratur [[latebra]] perjurio, id. Off. 3, 29, 106: latebram [[dare]] vitiis, Ov. A. A. 3, 754.