Semen, nis, pen. cor. g. Sero, seris. Colum. Seede: a kernel of any fruite: a graffe or set of a young tree. A nourse garden, kind, generation. Per translationem, the chrefe authour, begimter, or causer of a thing: that wherby a thing is nourished or maintained.Fœcundum sen en.Ouid.Perceptum semen.Ouid.Pinguia semina. Hor. Vitiata. Ouid.Corrupt. Abire in semen. Pli. To seede, or grow to seede as hearbes doe.Committere semina sulcis.Virg.To some corne.Permisto semine constant omnia. Lucr. Disserere semina in arcas. Col. Tosowe seede, &c.Data semina rudi humo.Ouid.Eruere rostro semina.Ouid.Exire in semen. Pli. To grow vp and gather to seeding.Iactare semen, Vide IACIO.Ingerere semen solo, Vide INGERO.Mandare semina terræ, Vide MANDO, mandas.Mittere rude semen in ignotam humum.Ouid.Semina mollit humus.Ouid.Obrue versata Cerealia semina terra.Ouid.Reddit arbor semen, Plin.Spargere semina. Sen. To sowe.Spargere semina per arua.Ouid.Turgessit semen in agris.Ouid. Semina.Virg.Sets: graffes: plants.Oleagineum semen. Varro. Ordinaria semina, Vide Ordinarius in ORDO.Deponere semina. Col. To set plants of vines, &c. Flammæ abstrusa semina in venis silicis.Virg.Semina limus habet virides generantia ranas.Ouid. Huius belli semen tu fuisti. C. Thou mast the verie causec and beginner of this war.Semen vrbanitatis. Ci. In animis, virtutum semina. Ci. Seeds or principles of vertues.Nequitiæ semina languidiora.Ouid.Probationum semina spargere. Quint. Semen alicuius. Suet. Kinde: generation.Conceptus semine.Ouid.Conceiued by seed of generation.Aetherium semen.Virg.Cælesti semine omnes sumus oriundi. Lucr. Dissona partu semina. Claud. Diuinum semen.Ouid.Generoso semine implere vterum.Ouid.Impia semina ferre vtero.Ouid.Inclyta semina. Sil. Mortale semen. Ouid.Virile. Lucr. Veterino semine partum genus. Lucr.
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sēmen, ĭnis, n. [root sa-, sē-; cf.: sero, sevi; Saturnus, sator, etc.]. I.Seed.1. Of plants, Cato, R. R. 17; 27; 31fin.; 34; Varr. R. R. 1, 40 sq.: semen manu spargere, Cic. Rosc. Am. 18, 50: terra semen excepit, id. Sen. 15, 51; id. N. D. 2, 32, 81; Ov. M. 1, 108; 7, 623 et saep.—2. Of men, animals, etc., Plaut. Am. 5, 2, 9; Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 4; 2, 3, 4; 3, 7, 10 al.; Lucr. 4, 1031; 4, 1034 sq.; Cels. 4, 19; Ov. M. 1, 748; 15, 760 et saep.—3.Poet., of the elements of other bodies (of fire, water, stones, etc.): ignis semina convolvunt e nubibus, Lucr. 6, 201 sq.; 6, 444; 6, 507; 6, 841: quaerit pars semina flammae in venis silicis, Verg. A. 6, 6; Ov. M. 11, 144 et saep.: in animis quasi virtutum igniculi et semina, Cic. Fin. 5, 7, 18; so id. Div. 1, 3, 6: alicujus quaestionis, Liv. 40, 19.—B.kat) e)coxh/n,spelt-seed, spelt, Plin. 18, 8, 19, 82; 18, 24, 55, 198; Col. 2, 12, 1; cf. Isid. Orig. 17, 3, 6.—II.Transf.A.A shoot used for propagating; a graft, scion, set, slip, cutting, Varr. R. R. 1, 40, 5; Verg. G. 2, 354; Col. 3, 3, 4; 3, 4, 1; 5, 10, 1 et saep.—2.A stock, race (very rare): genus ac semen, Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 95; so (with genus) id. Phil. 4, 5, 13: ipsa regio semine orta, Liv. 1, 47: videndum, ut boni seminis pecus habeas, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 4.—3.Posterity, progeny, offspring, child (poet.): non tulit in cineres labi sua Phoebus eosdem Semina, sed natum flammis Eripuit, Ov. M. 2, 629; so, semina, id. ib. 10, 470; 15, 216; id. F. 2, 383; id. Tr. 2, 415; Sen. Herc. Fur. 987; Vulg. Gen. 15, 5 et saep.—II.Trop., as in all languages, seed, i. e. origin, occasion, ground, cause; of persons, an author, prompter, insligator, etc. (class.). (a).Sing. (the predom. signif. in Cic.): stirps ac semen malorum omnium, Cic. Cat. 1, 12, 30: bellorum civilium semen et causa, id. Off. 2, 8, 29, cf. ut in seminibus est causa arborum et stirpium: sic hujus belli semen ut fuisti (for which, just before: causam belli in personā tuā constitisse), id. Phil. 2, 22, 55: sceleris, Plaut. Rud. 2, 2, 21.—(b).Plur.: in animis, quasi virtutum igniculi atque semina, Cic. Fin. 5, 7, 18: quod et Zeno in suis commentariis quasi semina quaedam sparsisset, id. Div. 1, 3, 6: si virtutes sunt, ad quas nobis initia quaedam ac semina sunt concessa naturā, Quint. 2, 20, 6: loquaces, seditiosos, semina discordiarum (tribunos plebis), Liv. 3, 19, 5: vix tamen illa semina erant futurae luxuriae,