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MorphologyDictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- sēmĭ-fer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj. [ferus], halfbestial, half man and half beast. I. Lit.:
semifer interea divinae stirpis alumno Laetus erat
, i. e. the Centaur Chiron
, Ov. M. 2, 633; so of the Centaurs
, id. ib. 12, 406; Stat. Th. 9, 220; Luc. 6, 386: caput Panis, Lucr. 4, 587: pectus (Tritonis)
, Verg. A. 10, 212: corpus Capricorni (because half goat and half fish)
, Cic. Arat. 59 Orell. N. cr.: species hominum (with portenta)
, Lucr. 2, 702 et saep.—II. Trop., half-wild, half-savage: (Cacus)
, Verg. A. 8, 267 (for which, semihomo, id. ib. 194): glires semiferum animal
, Plin. 8, 57, 82, 224: proles (canis)
, Grat. Cyn. 253: genus hominum
, Plin. 6, 19, 22, 66; Sil. 3, 542.
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