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|lshtext=<b>marmor</b>: ŏris (also marmur; plur. marmura, [[Antonius]] Gripho ap. Quint. 1, 6, 23; abl. marmori, Corp. Inscr. L. 1012; m., Plin. Val. 3, 14), n. [[root]] [[mar]]-, [[gleam]], [[glimmer]] (v. [[mare]]), the [[white]] or [[gleaming]] [[stone]]; cf. [[margarita]], = [[μάρμαρος]]>,<br /><b>I</b> [[marble]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: in omni marmore, Cic. Div. 2, 21, 48: [[Parium]] [[marmor]], Quint. 2, 19, 3; 5, 11, 30: tu secanda marmora Locas, Hor. C. 2, 18, 17: [[templum]] de marmore ponam, Verg. G. 3, 13; cf.: vivos ducent de marmore [[vultus]], id. A. 6, 848: parietes [[crusta]] marmoris operire totius [[domus]], Plin. 36, 6, 7, § 48: A MARMORIBVS, one whose [[office]] it [[was]] to [[superintend]] the purchasing and [[working]] of [[marble]], Inscr. Grut. 593, 7: marmora, kinds of [[marble]], Sen. Ep. 100, 5; Plin. 36, 7, 11, § 54; 36, 16, 25, § 126; [[but]] blocks or pieces of [[marble]], Hor. l. l.; Luc. 10, 114; Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 160; 36, 1, 1, § 2; Quint. 5, 11, 30; Mart. 5, 22, 8;<br /> v. [[infra]].—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Pulverized [[marble]], [[marble]]-[[dust]], [[Cato]], R. R. 2, 3; Col. 12, 20 fin.; Plin. 14, 19, 24, § 120; 23, 1, 24, § 45.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A [[marble]], i. e.,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[piece]] of [[wrought]] [[marble]], [[marble]] [[statue]], etc.: [[Praxiteles]] marmore nobilitatus est Gnidiaque Venere, Plin. 7, 38, 39, § 127; Hor. C. 4, 8, 13; Ov. M. 5, 234; 12, 487: duo marmora, id. ib. 7, 790; cf.: lacrimas marmora manant, id. ib. 6, 312; so plur., Sen. Ep. 90, 26; Plin. 12, 1, 5, § 9; 33, 7, 40, § 122; Stat. Silv. 1, 3, 36; Juv. 1, 12; 14, 40 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[building]] of [[marble]], Mart. 8, 3, 6; 10, 63, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In plur., a [[marble]] pavement, Mart. 10, 2, 9; 12, 60, 12; Claud. ap. Eutr. 2, 360; Juv. 6, 430.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> A [[mile]]-[[stone]] of [[marble]]: rus marmore [[tertio]] notatum, i. e. [[three]] [[miles]] from [[town]], Mart. 7, 31, 10.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> A [[marble]] [[slab]] [[upon]] a sideboard, Juv. 3, 205.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>E</b> A [[hard]], [[stony]] [[tumor]] in the joints of the [[horse]]: [[plerumque]] in genibus aut phlegmon oritur, aut marmora, Veg. Vet. 2, 48, 1: [[tumor]] obduratione convertitur in [[marmor]], id. ib. 2, 48, 10.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>F</b> Stone in gen., Ov. M. 5, 214; 11, 404: [[flumen]] inducit marmora rebus, incrusts, id. ib. 15, 314.—<br /> Poet., the [[bright]] [[level]] [[surface]] of the [[sea]]; [[hence]], the [[surface]] of the [[sea]], the [[sea]] in gen.: verrunt [[extemplo]] [[placide]] [[mare]] marmore flavo, Enn. ap. Gell. 2, 26, 21 (Ann. v. 377 Vahl.); Lucr. 2, 767: [[lento]] luctantur marmore tonsae, Verg. A. 7, 28; id. G. 1, 254: Libycum, id. A. 7, 718: spumant vada marmore [[verso]], id. ib. 10, 208: marmora pelagi, Cat. 63, 88: infidum, Sil. 14, 464: [[medium]], the [[surface]] of a [[lake]], Val. Fl. 6, 568.