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|lshtext=<b>sĕrĭes</b>: (no<br /><b>I</b> gen. or dat.), em, ē, f. 2. [[sero]], a [[row]], [[succession]], [[series]]; a [[chain]] of things fastened or holding [[together]] (syn. [[ordo]]).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit. ([[mostly]] [[post]] - [[class]].; not in Cic.); [[with]] gen.: [[series]] vinculorum, Curt. 3, 1, 17: structurae dentium, Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 70: sparsa ramorum, id. 11, 37, 69, § 182: [[longe]] porrecta viarum, Stat. S. 3, 3, 102: juvenum (in [[dancing]]), Tib. 1, 3, 63: [[omnis]] nepotum A Belo [[series]], Sil. 1, 88: custodiarum, Suet. Calig. 27: prolixa [[series]] capillorum, App. M. 2, p. 118, 36.—Absol.: ferreae laminae serie [[inter]] se conexae, Curt. 4, 9, 3; 7, 3, 21.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., a [[series]], [[chain]], [[connection]], [[train]], [[sequence]], [[course]], etc. ([[class]]., [[but]] for the [[most]] [[part]] [[only]] in the <[[number]] opt="n">[[sing]].</[[number]]>).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With gen.: [[continuatio]] seriesque rerum, Cic. N. D. 1, 4, 9: [[fatum]] est [[ordo]] seriesque causarum, id. Div. 1, 55, 125: [[fatum]] est sempiterna quaedam [[series]] rerum et [[catena]], etc., Gell. 6, 2, 1: rerum sententiarumque, Cic. Leg. 1, 19, 52: tanta [[series]] artis est, id. Part. Or. 39, 137: in complexu loquendi serieque, Quint. 1, 5, 3: disputationum, Cic. de Or. 2, 16, 68: fati, Ov. M. 15, 152: immensa laborum, id. H. 9, 5: malorum, id. M. 4, 563: longissima rerum, Verg. A. 1, 641: fabularum, App. M. 1, p. 114, 19.—Of [[time]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]): [[innumerabilis]] annorum, Hor. C. 3, 30, 5: temporis, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 54: per longam saeculorum seriem, Tac. H. 1, 2: in tantā saeculorum serie, Just. 44, 2, 7: per tam longam seriem annorum, Col. 3, 10, 6; 4, 19, 1: cum [[omnis]] temporum [[series]] ex historiis colligatur, Lact. 4, 5, 8; 4, 10, 3.—Plur.: simulantes fictas litium, [[series]], Vell. 2, 118: litium, Suet. Vesp. 10.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol., Quint. 5, 14, 32: [[cetera]] [[series]] [[deinde]] sequitur, majora nectens, ut haec: Si [[homo]] est, [[animal]] est, etc., Cic. Ac. 2, 7, 21: quae [[bene]] composita erunt, memoriam serie sua ducent, Quint. 11, 2, 39: haec erit aeternae [[series]] ab origine Romae, Aus. Epigr. 140, 2.—Of the [[connection]] of words: [[tantum]] [[series]] juncturaque pollet, Hor. A. P. 242.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic., an [[unbroken]] [[line]] of [[descent]], [[lineage]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]): ab Jove [[tertius]] [[Ajax]]. Nec [[tamen]] haec [[series]] in causā prosit, Ov. M. 13, 29: [[digne]] vir hac serie, id. P. 3, 2, 109: serie fulcite [[genus]], Prop. 4 (5), 11, 69; Val. Max. 2, 7, 5.