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|lshtext=<b>ădŭlescens</b>: ([[only]] ădŏl- in the<br /><b>I</b> [[verb]] and [[part]]. [[proper]]), entis (gen. plur. usu. adulescentium, e. g. Cic. Tusc. 5, 27 al.: adulescentum, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 130).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> P. a., growing up, not [[yet]] [[come]] to [[full]] [[growth]], [[young]]: [[eodem]] ut jure uti senem liceat, quo jure [[sum]] [[usus]] [[adulescentior]], Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 3: uti [[adulescentior]] aetati concederet, etc., Sall. H. 1, 11 (Fragm. ap. Prisc. 902).— Trop., of the [[new]] Academic [[philosophy]]: [[adulescentior]] Academia, Cic. Fam. 9, 8, 1.— Sup. and adv. not used.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Subst. comm. gen., one [[who]] has not [[yet]] attained [[maturity]], a [[youth]], a [[young]] [[man]]; a [[young]] [[woman]], a [[maiden]] ([[between]] the [[puer]] and juvenis, from the 15th or 17th [[until]] [[past]] the 30th [[year]], [[often]] [[even]] [[until]] [[near]] the 40th; [[but]] the [[same]] [[person]] is [[often]] called in one [[place]] [[adulescens]], and in [[another]] juvenis, e. g. Cic. Fam. 2, 1, [[with]] Att. 2, 12; cf. id. Top. 7; [[often]] the [[adulescentia]] passes [[beyond]] the [[period]] of [[manhood]], [[even]] to [[senectus]]; [[while]] in [[other]] cases [[adulescentia]] is [[limited]] to 25 years, Cic. Tusc. 2, 1, 2 Goer.: “Primo gradu [[usque]] ad annum XV. pueros dictos, [[quod]] sint puri, i. e. [[impubes]]. Secundo ad XXX. annum ab adolescendo sic nominatos,” Varr. ap. Censor. [[cap]]. 14. “[[Tertia]] ([[aetas]]) [[adulescentia]] ad gignendum adulta, quae porrigitur (ab [[anno]] XIV.) [[usque]] ad vigesimum octavum annum,” Isid. Orig. 11, 2, 4. Thus [[Cicero]], in de Or. 2, 2, calls [[Crassus]] [[adulescens]], [[though]] he [[was]] 34 years old; in id. Phil. 2, 44, [[Brutus]] and [[Cassius]], [[when]] in [[their]] 40th [[year]], are called adulescentes; and in id. ib. 46, [[Cicero]] calls [[himself]], at the [[time]] of his [[consulship]], i. e. in his 44th [[year]], [[adulescens]]; cf. Manut. ap. Cic. Fam. 2, 1, p. 146): [[tute]] me ut fateare faciam esse adulescentem moribus, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 67: [[bonus]] [[adulescens]], Ter. And. 4, 7, 4: adulescentes bonā indole praediti, Cic. Sen. 8, 26: [[adulescens]] luxu [[perditus]], Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 42: [[adulescens]] [[perditus]] et [[dissolutus]], Cic. Tusc. 4, 25; Vulg. Gen. 34, 19; ib. Matt. 19, 20.—Homo and [[adulescens]] are [[often]] used [[together]]: amanti homini adulescenti, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 94; Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 53; Cic. Fam. 2, 15: hoc se labore durant homines adulescentes, Caes. B. G. 6, 28; Sall. C. 38; id. J. 6; Liv. 2, 6.— Fem.: optimae adulescenti facere injuriam, Ter. And. 3, 2, 8: Africani [[filia]] [[adulescens]], Cic. Div. 1, 18 fin. The [[young]] Romans [[who]] attended the proconsuls and propraetors in the provinces were [[sometimes]] called adulescentes ([[commonly]] contubernales), Caes. B. C. 1, 23; 1, 51. Sometimes [[adulescens]] serves to [[distinguish]] the younger of [[two]] persons of the [[same]] [[name]]: [[Brutus]] [[adulescens]], Caes. B. G. 7, 87: P. [[Crassus]] [[adulescens]], id. ib. 1, 52, and 3, 7: L. [[Caesar]] [[adulescens]], id. B. C. 1, 8.

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