Margo, marginis, pen. cor. com. ge. Ouid.The brimme or edge of a thing: the margent.Plena iam margine libri.Iuuen.The margent of the bocke being full. Extremo in margine rasa litera. Oui. Margo conchæ. Plin. The edge. Margines testitudinis. Plin. Margines fluminis. Var. The brimmes of the riuer banke.Gramineus margo fontis.Ouid.Ripæ margo.Ouid. Terrarum margo. Ouid.Margines imperij. Plin. The frontiers, boundes, or marches of the empire.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
margo, ĭnis, m. and f. (cf. Prisc. p. 684 P.), an edge, brink, border, margin (class., but not in Cic. or Cæs.): flumen marginibus lapideis, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 9: conchae, Plin. 9, 36, 61, 130: ulceris, id. 30, 13, 39, 113: calicis, id. 37, 2, 7, 18: gemmae, id. 37, 8, 37, 116: margine gramineo (sc. fontis), Ov. M. 3, 162: ripae, id. ib. 5, 598: agri,
, Ov. M. 1, 13: viridi si margine cluderet undas herba, Juv. 3, 14: capite super margine scuti posito, Liv. 44, 33.—In fem.: margo, quae sustinet arenam, Vitr. 5, 12; Aemil. Macer. and Rabir. ap. Charis. p. 49 P.: plena jam margine libri, Juv. 1, 5; cf. Quint. 1, 1, 27: margine in extremo littera rasa, Ov. Am. 1, 11, 22: comae, Stat. S. 2, 1, 44: oculorum, id. ib. 3, 2, 53: rostri, Plin. 9, 10, 12, 37: templi,
threshold
, Stat. S. 4, 4, 54: imperii,
boundary
, Ov. Tr. 2, 199; cf.: extremo in margine imperii, qua Rhenus alluit, Plin. 12, 20, 43, 98.—II.Transf. (poet.): partem modicae sumptam de margine cenae, i. e.