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|lshtext=<b>văs</b>: vădis, m.,<br /><b>I</b> a [[bail]], [[security]], [[surety]] (in gen., [[while]] [[praes]] is confined to [[pecuniary]] matters; cf. also [[sponsio]]): vas appellatus, qui pro altero [[vadimonium]] promittebat, Varr. L. L. 6, 74 Müll.: vas [[factus]] est [[alter]] ([[Damon]]) ejus sistendi, ut si [[ille]] non revertisset, moriendum esset ipsi, Cic. Off. 3, 10, 45: vades poscere, id. Rep. 2, 36, 61: se [[dare]] vadem pro [[amico]], id. Fin. 2, 24, 79: deserere vades, Liv. 39, 41, 7; Hor. S. 1, 1, 11 Heind.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop.: vestram virtutem rerum quas gesturus [[sum]], vadem praedemque [[habeo]], Curt. 9, 2, 25.<br /><b>vās</b>: vāsis; plur. vāsa, ōrum (anteclass. collat. form of the<br /><b>I</b> nom. [[sing]]. vāsum, [[Cato]] ap. Gell. 13, 23, 1; Fab. Pict. ap. Non. 544, 26; Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 33 sq.: vasus [[fictilis]], Petr. 57, 8; dat. plur. vasibus, Gargil. Martial. Pomif. Arb. 4, 4; apocopated, vas' argenteis, for vasis, acc. to Cic. Or. 45, 153), n. Sanscr. [[root]], vas-, to [[put]] on; vastram, [[clothing]]; Gr. [[ἕννυμι]], [[εἷμα]]>; Lat. [[vestis]].<br /><b>I</b> In gen., a [[vessel]], [[dish]]; also, a [[utensil]], [[implement]] of [[any]] [[kind]]: vasa ahena ex aedibus (rapere), Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 61: aliquod [[vasum]] argenteum Aut aliquod [[vasum]] ahenum, id. Truc. 1, 1, 33: [[nihil]] [[relinquo]] in aedibus Nec vas nec [[vestimentum]], Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 89: [[corpus]] [[quasi]] vas est, aut aliquod animi [[receptaculum]], Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 52; cf. Vulg. 1 Thess. 4, 4: quassatis [[undique]] vasis, Diffluere umorem, Lucr. 3, 435: sincerum est [[nisi]] vas, quodcumque infundis acescit, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 54: vinarium, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 27, § 62: argentea, id. ib.; Hor. S. 2, 7, 72: [[Corinthia]] et Deliaca, Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 133: [[Samia]], Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 41; Cic. Mur. 36, 75: escaria, Plin. 37, 2, 7, § 18.—Of implements for supporting [[any]] [[thing]]: si vasa sint legata, non [[solum]] ea continentur, quae aliquid in se recipiunt edendi bibendique causā paratum, sed [[etiam]] quae aliquid sustineant: et [[ideo]] scutellas vel promulsidaria contineri, Dig. 34, 2, 20.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Military equipments, [[baggage]]: [[ille]] ex Siciliā jam [[castra]] commoverat et vasa collegerat, had [[packed]] up, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 19, § 40: vasa colligere, Liv. 21, 47, 2; 27, 47, 8; cf. trop.: vasa in senectute colligere, Sen. Ep. 19, 1: vasa conclamare, to [[give]] the [[signal]] for packing up, Caes. B. C. 1, 66: 3, 37.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Agricultural implements: vasa quae utilia culturae sunt, [[aratrum]], ligones, sarcula, falces, bidentes, Dig. 33, 7, 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of beehives, Col. 9, 6, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>5</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of [[hunting]] implements, Grat. Cyn. 219.—<br /><b>II</b> In mal. [[part]]., Auct. Priap. 70; cf. in a [[double]] [[sense]], Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 41.