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|lshtext=<b>glŏbus</b>: i, m. kindr. [[with]] [[glomus]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[round]] [[body]], a [[ball]], [[sphere]], [[globe]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: cum duae formae praestantes sint, ex solidis [[globus]] (sic [[enim]] σφαῖραν interpretari placet), ex planis [[autem]] [[circulus]] aut [[orbis]], qui [[κύκλος]] [[Graece]] dicitur, Cic. N. D. 2, 18, 47: [[ille]] [[globus]], quae [[terra]] dicitur, id. Rep. 6, 15: terrae, id. Tusc. 1, 28, 68; cf. stellarum, id. Rep. 6, 16; 6, 17: solis et lunae, Lucr. 5, 472; cf. lunae, id. 5, 69: cum [[caelum]] discessisse [[visum]] est [[atque]] in eo animadversi globi, [[fire]]-balls, Cic. Div. 1, 43, 97: in fundas visci indebant grandiculos globos, Plaut. Poen. 2, 35: cordis, [[poet]]. for cor, Lucr. 4, 119: farinae, Varr. L. L. 5, § 107 Müll.;<br /> v. in the foll.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A dumpling: a [[globo]] farinae dilatato [[item]] in [[oleo]] cocti dicti globi, Varr. L. L. 5, § 107 Müll.; [[Cato]], R. R. 79.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In milit. lang., a [[close]] [[order]] of [[battle]], a [[knot]], [[troop]], [[band]], [[company]], [[Cato]] ap. Fest. s. v. [[serra]], p. 344 b. Müll.: cum [[globo]] juvenum, Liv. 1, 6, 7; 1, 12, 9: emissi militum globi turbam disjecere, Tac. A. 14, 61; 4, 50; 12, 43; 15, 60; Sil. 7, 53.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., a [[globular]] [[mass]], a [[ball]], [[globe]] of things [[collected]] [[together]] ([[mostly]] [[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]; not in [[Cicero]] [[nor]] Cæsar): flammarumque globos liquefactaque volvere saxa, globes or masses of [[flame]], Verg. G. 1, 473: sanguinis, Ov. M. 12, 238: nubium, Luc. 4, 74; Tac. A. 2, 23: telorum, Val. Fl. 6, 381. —A [[throng]], [[crowd]], [[body]], or [[mass]] of [[people]]: extrema [[contio]] et [[circa]] Fabium [[globus]] increpabant inclementem dictatorem, Liv. 8, 32, 13: [[circa]] eum [[aliquot]] hominum, ne [[forte]] violaretur, constitisset [[globus]], id. 2, 29, 2: cum repelleretur adsertor virginis a [[globo]] mulierum, id. 3, 47, 8: aditum [[senatus]] [[globus]] togatorum obsederat, Tac. A. 16, 27: magno [[semper]] electorum juvenum [[globo]] circumdari, id. G. 13; and [[with]] a [[contemptuous]] [[secondary]] [[notion]]: si quem ex [[illo]] [[globo]] nobilitatis ad hoc [[negotium]] mittatis, from [[that]] [[noble]] [[clique]], Sall. J. 85, 10 Kritz.: conjurationis, Vell. 2, 58, 2; cf. consensionis, Nep. Att. 8, 4: Jehu, Vulg. 4 Reg. 9, 17.