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|lshtext=<b>cento</b>: ōnis, m. [[κέντρων]]>,<br /><b>I</b> a [[garment]] of [[several]] bits or pieces sewed [[together]], a [[rag]]-[[covering]], [[patchwork]], etc., [[Cato]] ap. Fest. s. v. prohibere, p. 234 Müll.; id. R. R. 2, 3; 10, 5; Lucil. ap. Non. p. 176, 1; Sisenn. ib. p. 91, 27; Caes. B. C. 2, 9; 3, 44 fin.; Dig. 33, 7, 12.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Esp., a [[cap]] [[worn]] under the [[helmet]], Amm. 19, 8, 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Prov.: centones sarcire alicui, to [[impose]] [[upon]] by falsehoods, Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 19.—<br /><b>II</b> The [[title]] of a [[poem]] made up of [[various]] verses of [[another]] [[poem]], a [[cento]]; so the [[Cento]] Nuptialis of [[Ausonius]] (the [[thirteenth]] of his Idyls), etc., Isid. Orig. 1, 38, 25; Tert. Praescr. 39.