Africa, Cic.As it were the forte or castell.Arx omnium gentium vrbs Roma.Cic.In arce legis præsidia constituere defenfionis meæ non licet.Cic.In the strength of the lawe.Vnicam hanc habemus arcem. Bud. We haue this onely refuge or succour. Aeriæ arces.Virg.High towers. Celsa arx. Virg.Edita arx. Sen. High. Palladis arces. Ouid.Pallas temples.Igneas arces cælum vocat. Horat. Inuictissima arx.Tacit. Eaceræ arces. Ouid.Munitissima arx.Liu. Potens. Sen. Præcipites arces. Lucan. Præropra arx. Sen. Prælustris.Ouid. Sacræ arces. Horat. Temples or churches.Summa arx.Virg. Superbæ arces. Hor. Tuta arx. Virg. Concutere arces.Ouid.Condere.Virg.To build a tower.Constructæ arces. Sil. Erigete arces. Stat.Build.Fundare arces.Virg.Impositæ montibus arces. Horat. Forces builded on hils.Inuadere in arcem causæ.Cic.To enter into the chiefe point of, &c.Liberare arcem.Cic.Moliri atcem.Virg.To goe about to build.Munire arcem.Cic.To fortisie.Retinere arcem.Cic.To keepe and defend.Subruere arces.Ouid.To casr to the ground.Tradere arcem.Tacit.To yceld vp.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Afrĭca, ae, f. [the Romans received this name from the Carthaginians as designating their country, and in this sense only the Gr. h( *)afrikh/ occurs]. I. In a restricted sense, designated by the Greeks h( *libu/h, Libya, the territory of Carthage: Nilus Africam ab Aethiopiā dispescens, Plin. 5, 9, 10, 53; 5, 4, 3: regio, quae sequitur a promontorio Metagonio ad aras Philaenorum, proprie nomen Africae usurpat, Mel. 1, 7; cf. Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, and id. Lig. 7.— II. In an extended sense, the whole of that quarter of the globe south of the Mediterranean Sea, Mel. 1, 4.—By meton. for its inhabitants: Africa, quae procul a mari incultius agebat, Sall. J. 89, 7 (cf. id. ib. 19, 5: alios incultius vagos agitare).—Hence, 1. Afrĭcānus, a, um, adj., pertaining to Africa, African: bellum Africanum,
the war of Cœsar with the partisans of Pompey in Africa
, Cic. Deiot. 9: rumores,
of the African war
, id. ib.: causa, id. Fam. 6, 13: possessiones,
in Africa
, Nep. Att. 12: gallina,
a guinea-hen
, Varr. R. R. 3, 9; cf. Plin. 10, 26, 38, 74.—Subst.: Afrĭcānae, ārum, sc. ferae, panthers, Liv. 44, 18; so Plin. 8, 17, 24, 64; Plin. Ep. 6, 34; Suet. Cat. 18; id. Claud. 21 al.—Esp., Afrĭcā-nus, surname of the two most distinguished Scipios.A. Of P. Cornelius Scipio major, who defeated Hannibal at Zama (201 B. C.). —B. Of his grandson by adoption, P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus minor, who conducted the third Punic war, destroyed Carthage (146 B.C.), and subjected the whole Carthaginian territory to the Romans.— 2. Afrĭcus, a, um, adj., African (mostly poet. for the prose Africanus): terra, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167; so Liv. 29, 23 fin.: bella, Sil. 17, 11: Vicus,
a place in Rome
,
on the Esquiline Hill
,
where the Carthaginian hostages were held in custody
, Varr. R. R. 5, 32, 44.—But esp. freq., Afrĭcus ventus, or subst.: Afrĭcus, i, m., the south-west wind, Gr. li/y, blowing between Auster and Favonius (libo/notos and ze/furos), opp. Vulturnus (kaiki/as), now called, among the Italians, Affrico or gherbino; cf. Plin. 2, 47, 46, 119, and Sen. Q. N. 5, 16: creberque procellis Africus, Verg. A. 1, 86: praeceps, Hor. C. 1, 3, 12: luctans, id. ib. 1, 1, 15: pestilens, id. ib. 3, 23, 5: protervus, id. Epod. 16, 22.—Adj.: procellae, the waves or storms caused by the Africus, Hor. C. 3, 29, 57.—In Propert., Africus, as the god of this wind, is called pater, 5, 3, 48, but Müll. here reads Aetheris.