Bos, bouis, co m. g. Datiuum & ablatiuum plurales bobus per syncopam facit, & more veterum bubus. Colum. Cic.A rother beast, be it oxe, steere, or cowe, also mony whereon the print of an oxe was made.Bos in lingua. Erasinus. Corrupted with mony not to vtter the truth.Lucæ boues vocantur elephanti. Plin. Armenta boum.Virg.Droues of neate.Capita boum, pro ipsis bobus.Virg.Corpora boum.Virg. Cura boum. Virg.Custos boum.Ouid.A cowheard.Labores boum experiri.Virg.Labores boum.Virg.The tilling of the ground with oxen.Mugitus boum.Virg.The lowing of neate.Æripes bos.Ouid.Shodde with brasse or yron.Albis bobus venerari Deum. Horat. To sacrisice to God.Bos cerebrosus. Colum. A madde oxe.Contumaces boues. Colum. Restie or vnruly oxen.Cruda bos. Horat. A come that digesteth not hir meate.Bouem disiunctum curare. Horat. An oxe vnyoked.Felsi boues. Horat, Werie oxen.Forda bos.Ouid.A come great with calfe.Formosæ boues.Ouid.Faire.Immunis bos aratri.Ouid.That is not laboured.Incustoditæ boues.Ouid. Indigena bos. Ouid.Indomita bos.Val. Flac.Intacta Bos. Horat. That neuer was yoked.Lectus bos.Ouid.Macri boues. Iuuenal. Carren leane.Mactatus bos.Ouid.Minaces boues.Ouid. Bos misera. Val. Flae. Mutili boues. Colum. That haue no hornes.Omniuoræ boues. Plin. That eate all things.Opimi boues. Varro. Stallfedde oxen.Otiosus bos. Horat. Passa iugum bos.Ouid.That hath bene yoked.Pasti boues.Virg.Hauing fedde or grased: or after they haue grased.Patuli boues.Plaut.Broade headed.Pauidi boues. Claud. Perdomiti boues. Colum. Broken to the plough.Piger bos. Horat. Boues profugæ. Propert. Ruricolæ boues.Ouid.Labouring oxen.Sacri boues.Ouid. Tardi boues. Ouid. Torua bos. Virg.Triumphatus bos.Ouid.Sacrificed in a triumph.Vetulus bos. Iuuenal. Vincti boues. Ouid. Amouere boues per dolum. Horat. To steale away.Arare bobus.Ouid. Arat bos. Ouid.Conterere boues. Lucret. To ouer labour his oxen.Boues curare.Plaut.To dresse and see to.Boues disiungere. Iuuenal. To vnyoke.Domitare boues.Virg.Bos enectus arando. Horat. Wearied.Errant boues.Virg.Go grasing.Fatigare boues. Horat. Pascere boues. Virg.Dente non petit bos. Horat. Placare deos boue. Horat. Quærere boues. Virg.Subijcere boues aratro.Ouid.To put to the plough.
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bōs, bŏvis (prob. orig. form of nom. bŏ-vis, like bovare for boare, Petr. 62, 13; cf. Varr L. L. 8, 74 Müll., where, acc. to Cod. B., the read. should be: nunc in consuetudine aliter dicere pro Jovis Juppiter, pro Bovis Bos, pro Strus Strues.—Hence, gen. plur. bŏvĕrum, Cato, R. R. 62 Schneid. N. cr.; cf. Varr. L. L. l. l.: alios dicere Boum greges, alios Boverum; v. Juppiter, nux, rex, sus, and Schneid. Gr. 2, p. 171.— Regular gen. boum very freq.; uncontracted form bovum, Cic. Rep. 2, 9, 16 Halm; Cod. Sang. Colum. 6, 17, 6; 6, 37, 11, and Cod. Reg. ib. 6, 38, 4; cf. Prisc. p. 773 P.—Dat. plur. contr. bōbus, Hor. C. 3, 6, 43; id. C. S. 49; id. Epod. 2, 3; Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 159, twice; cf. Prisc. p. 773 sq. P.; but more freq. and class. būbus, even Cato, R. R. 6, 3; 54, 1; 54, 60; 54, 70; 54, 73; once bŭbŭs, Aus. Epigr. 62, 2; cf. on the other hand, Serv. ad Verg. E. 8, 86.—Exs. of the uncontracted form bovibus are entirely. wanting; v. Neue, Formenl. 1, 280 sqq.; 1, 289), comm.; generally masc. in prose (hence, femina bos, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 17; Liv. 25, 12, 13; 27, 37, 11; Col. 6, 24, 3; Plin. 8, 46, 71, 186; Tac. G. 40) [from the root bo-, prop. the roaring, kindr. with Gr. bou=s, bw=s; Sanscr. gō, gu]. I.An ox, a bull, a cow; described by Plin. 8, 45, 70, 176 sq.; Cato, R. R. 70 sq.; Varr. R. R. 1, 20, 1; 2, 1, 12 sq.; 2, 5, 7.—In gen.: quia boves bini hic sunt in crumenā, i. e. the price of them, Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 16: Olympiae per stadium ingressus esse Milo dicitur, cum umeris sustineret bovem, Cic. Sen. 10, 33: consimili ratione venit bubus quoque saepe Pestilitas, Lucr. 6, 1131: quae cura boum, qui cultus habendo Sit pecori, Verg. G. 1, 3: bos est enectus arando, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 87; Verg. G. 3, 50 sq.; Col. lib. 6; Pall. Mart. 11, 1 sq.—In fem.: actae boves, Liv. 1, 7, 6: bove eximiā captā de grege, id. 1, 7, 12; Ov. M. 8, 873; so, torva, Verg. G. 3, 52: cruda, Hor. Epod. 8, 6: intactae, id. ib. 9, 22: formosa, Ov. M. 1, 612: incustoditae, id. ib. 2, 684: vidisti si quas Boves, id. ib. 2, 700: forda, fecunda, id. F. 4, 630 and 631 al. —Prov.: bovi clitellas imponere, to put a pack - saddle upon an ox, i. e. to assign one a duty for which he is not qualified, old Poët. ap. Cic. Att. 5, 15, 3 (in the form non nostrum onus: bos clitellas (sc. portabat), Quint. 5, 11, 21 Spald.); cf.: optat ephippia bos, piger optat arare caballus, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 43; and Amm. 16, 5, 10.—Humorously, for a whip cut from neat's leather, a raw hide: ubi vivos homines mortui incursant boves, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 20: bos Lucas, the elephant; v. Lucani, D.—II.A kind of sea-fish of the genus of the turbot, Plin. 9, 24, 40, 78; Ov. Hal. 94; cf. Plin. 32, 11, 54, 152.