Charta, huius chartæ. Plin. Paper: a leafe of paper: any thing conteyning the description of a place in picture: a maide that had neuer childe: a booke.Chartas codicis explicare. Quint. To turne the leaues.Ad chartas parare papyrum. Vlp. Inopia chartæ minus scribitur.Cic.For lacke of.Fragilis sonitus chartarum. Lucret. Anus charta. Catul. An old booke.Bibula charta.Plin. iun.Paper that will not beare inke.Dontate charta rem agere.Cic.To write biting & taunting things: to write angerly and sharpely.Doctæ & laboriosæ chartæ. Catul. Bookes pasnfully made, and full of much good doctrine.Epistolares chartæ. Marrial. Paper for letters: writing paper.Ineptis chartis amicire aliquid Horat.Charta plumbea, Suet.A thin plate, or prece of lead.Puræ chartæ. Vlp. Fayre paper, neuer written in. Delatæ chartis merces.Cic.Explicare cliartis. Catul. To desctiue in bookes.Illinere chartis aliquid. Horat. Impallescescere nocturnis chartis. Pers. To ware pale with night study.Notata charta digitis.Ouid.Written in.No nos prodat charta.Cicer.For feare least our letters bewray vs.Promere chârtis.Cic.Silere chartæ dicuntur. Horat. When one writeth not.Sileri chartis. Horat. Not to be praysed in bookes written.In charta auersa scribere, Mart.To write on the backside. Charta, pro libro.Ouid.
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charta, ae (chartus, i, m., Lucil. ap. Non. p. 196, 19). f., = o/ xa/rths (cf. the letter A), a leaf of the Egyptian papyrus, paper, Plin. 13, 11, 21, 68 sqq.; Lucr. 6, 112; 6, 114; Cic. Att. 5, 4, 4; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 113: dentata,
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, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 14 (15), 1: emporitica inutilis scribendo involucris chartarum segestriumque mercibus usum praebet, Plin. 13, 12, 23, 76: epistulares, Mart. 14, 11in lemm.;Dig. 33, 9, 3, 10: novae, ib. 37, 11, 4: purae, ib. 32, 1, 52, 4: transversa, Suet. Caes. 56: vacuae, Mart. 14, 10, 2.—B.Meton.1.The papyrus plant itse'f, Plin. 13, 11, 21, 68.—Far more freq., 2.That which is written upon paper, a writing, letter, poem, etc., Lucr. 3, 10; 4, 971; Cic. Cael. 17, 70; id. Att. 2, 20, 3; Cat. 1, 6; 68, 46; Hor. C. 4, 9, 31; id. S. 1, 10, 4; id. Ep. 2, 1, 35; 2, 1, 161; 2, 1, 270; id. A. P. 310: Arpinae, i.e. Ciceronis, Mart. 10, 19. —II.Transf., a thin leaf, plate, lamina, tablet (cf. Lidd. and Scott, under xa/rths, 3.): plumbea, Suet. Ner. 20.