Hortus, buius hortus. m. g. A knot gardÊ: a garden for pleasute: an ortharde.Amœnitas hortorum.Pleasantnesse of gardens.Cultissimus hortus.Cic.A garden very well trimmed.Exhaostus hortus lectis floribus. Oui. A garden out of which al the flouers be cleane gathered.Halantes floribu shorti. Vir. Indil: gens hortus. Flin. A garden lying siuttishly and vnhensomely.Itrignus hortus. Hor. Paterni horti. Cic.Pauperis horti custos. Vir. Pingues horti. Vir. Riguus hortus. Ouid.Suburbani horti.Stat. Conducere hortum.Cic.Hortum ipsi agricolæ luccidiam alteram appellant. Cice. Inferere hortos. Colum. Vide INSBRO. Inspicere Cic.Instruere Pli. iun. Cic. Mar. To furnish and trim up his garden with al things necessarie.In hortos ad cœnam aliquem inuitare.Cic.In hortis se sine interpellatoribus oblectare.Cic.To solace him selfe in his garden without any cõpany to troble himParare hortos.Cic. Præparare. Cic.Hortus in singulari, pluralique, pro hortis olitorijs accipitur A garden. Horti in fenestris. Plin. Horti vero in plurali, arboribus consiti dicuntur, & voluptatis amœnitatisoue causa parati.An orthard or garden of pleasure with an house in it.Horti pensiles Pli.Gardens made aboue ground in houses.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
hortus, i, m. [cf.: heres, co-hors; xo/rtos, an enclosure for plants; hence], a garden, a pleasure - garden, fruit - garden, kitchen - garden, vineyard (syn.: pomarium, viretum, viridarium). I.Lit.: sed is clam patrem etiam hac nocte illa per hortum transiit ad nos, Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 37: abii ad hortum nostrum, id. Most. 5, 1, 4; Col. 10, 11, 3; Plin. 19, 4, 19, 50; Cic. de Sen. 16, 56; id. Off. 3, 14, 58; id. Phil. 2, 6, 15; Lact. 2, 7; 7, 25; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 15 et saep.: horti Epicuri,
in which Epicurus taught
, Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 3; id. N. D. 1, 33, 93; id. Att. 12, 23, 2; cf. Plin. 19, 4, 19, 51: magni Senecae praedivitis horti, Juv. 10, 16: Horti Caesaris, Agrippinae, Domitiae, etc., at Rome (Trans-Tiberim); cf. Becker's Antiq. I. p. 657 sq.: Horti Maecenatis,
on the Esquiline hill
, ib. p. 540 sq.—II.Transf.A. For villa, a country-seat: in XII. tabulis legum nostrarum nusquam nominatur villa, semper in significatione ea hortus, in horti vero heredium, Plin. 19, 4, 19, 50.—B. For holera, garden-stuff, vegetables, greens, Cato, R. R. 8, 2; Hor. S. 2, 4, 16.—C. Like the Gr. kh=pos, i. q. pudendum muliebre, Poët. ap. Anth. Lat. I. p. 686 Burm.; also the posteriors of a boy, Auct. Priap. 5.