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|lshtext=<b>lăcus</b>: ūs (<br /><b>I</b> gen. laci, Vulg. Dan. 6, 17; 24; id. Jer. 37, 15; Cassiod. Var. 11, 14; dat. and abl. plur. lacis, Anthol. Lat. 5, 71, 10: lacibus, Plin. 23, 1, 20, § 33; [[usually]] lacubus, Ov. M. 12, 278 al.), m. [[root]] lak, to [[tear]]; Gr. [[λάκος]], [[λακερός]], [[λάκκος]]; Lat. [[lacer]], [[lacinia]], [[lacuna]], lāma; cf. [[lacerna]]; [[originally]] [[any]] [[thing]] [[hollow]], [[hence]].<br /><b>I</b> A [[large]] [[vessel]] for liquids, a [[basin]], [[tank]], [[tub]]; esp. a [[vat]] [[into]] [[which]] the [[wine]] flowed from the [[press]], [[Cato]], R. R. 25; 67, 2; Col. 12, 18, 3: tu [[quoque]] devotos, Bacche, relinque [[lacus]], Tib. 2, 3, 64: de lacubus proxima musta tuis, Ov. F. 4, 888; a [[tank]] of [[water]], in [[which]] [[heated]] [[metal]] [[was]] cooled: alii stridentia tingunt Aera lacu, Verg. G. 4, 173: gelido ceu [[quondam]] [[lamina]] [[candens]] [[tincta]] lacu, stridit, Ov. M. 9, 170: [[ferrum]], igne [[rubens]] ... lacubus demittit, id. ib. 12, 278.—Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf.: [[oratio]] [[quasi]] de musto ac lacu fervida, i. e. [[still]] [[new]], [[that]] has not done fermenting, Cic. Brut. 83, 288.—<br /><b>II</b> A [[large]] [[body]] of [[water]] [[which]] rises and falls (opp. [[stagnum]], a [[standing]] [[pool]]), a [[lake]], [[pond]]: agri, aedificia, [[lacus]], stagna, Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 7: exhalant [[lacus]] nebulam, Lucr. 5, 463: deae, quae illos Hennenses [[lacus]] lucosque incolitis, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 72, § 188; cf. 2, 4, 48, § 107: Averni, Lucr. 6, 746; Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37: [[Albanus]], id. Div. 1, 44, 100: [[Fucinus]], Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 124: dicebar [[sicco]] vilior esse lacu, Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 12: ad spurcos [[lacus]], Juv. 6, 603.—Poet., of a [[river]]: [[deinde]] lacu [[fluvius]] se condidit [[alto]] Ima petens, Verg. A. 8, 66; cf. v. 74; of the [[Styx]], id. ib. 6, 134; 238; 393.—<br /><b>III</b> A [[large]] [[reservoir]] for [[water]], a [[basin]], [[tank]], [[cistern]] (of [[which]] [[there]] were a [[great]] [[number]] in [[Rome]]), Front. 3; 78; Liv. 39, 44; Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 121: a furno redeuntes lacuque, Hor. S. 1, 4, 37.—A [[place]] called Lacus: garruli et malevoli [[supra]] Lacum, at the [[pond]] (perh. Lacus [[Curtius]] or Lacus Juturnae), Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 16.—Prov.: [[siccus]] [[lacus]], for [[something]] [[useless]], Prop. 2, 11, 11 (3, 6, 12).—<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> A [[hole]] in [[which]] [[lime]] is slacked, a [[lime]]-[[hole]], Vitr. 7, 2, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> One of the bins or receptacles for [[pulse]] in a [[granary]]: sed et lacubus distinguuntur granaria, ut [[separatim]] quaeque legumina ponantur, Col. 1, 6, 14.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>c</b> A [[den]] or [[cave]] for lions: labitur in lacum leonum, Prud. Cath. 4, 65; Vulg. Dan. 6, 7.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>d</b> The [[pit]], the [[place]] of the [[dead]] (cf. II. fin. [[supra]]): salvasti me a descendentibus in lacum, Vulg. Psa. 29, 4.—<br /> For [[lacunar]], a panel in a [[ceiling]] ([[ante]]-[[class]].): [[resultant]] aedesque lacusque, Lucil. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 726.

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