Agnus, & in fœminino genere Agna. A lambe.Agnus autumnalis. Colum. Eaned in autumne.Chordi agni. Varro. Lambs eaned after their time.Expertes heibæ agni Colum.That neuer grased.Firmus agnus. Colum. Strong or lustie.Formosos agnos procreare. Varto. Hirtus agnus. Colum. That hath long wooll.Hornus agnus. Propert. This yeares lambe.Imbecillus. Columel. Weake.Immaturus. Columel. Too young to eate.Mollis. Mart. Petulcus. Lucret. Wanton. Pinguis. Virg.Robustus. Colum. Saturior lactis agnus. Colum. Full of milke.Subrumi agni. Varro. Sucking lambes.Teneri agni.Virg.Tender.Tenerior agnus. Colum. Validior. Vernus. Colum Eaned in spring time. Admittere agnos admatres. Colum. To let them to their dammes.Admouere agnum vberibus. Columel. To put them to the teate.Confirmatur agnus. Colum. Waxeth strong.Conualescit agnus. Colum. Waxeth strong.Depellere agnos lacte.Virg.To weane.Depulsi agni matribus. Varro. Weaned.Desyderant agni matrem. Varro. Lacke their dammes.Disiungere agnos mamma. Varro. To weane.Agnus editus. Colum. Eaned.Emittendi septo agni. Col. Must be put out of the close.Lasciuit agnus. Colum. The lambe playeth.Luxurians agnus. Col. That is alway playing and skipping.Senescunt agni desiderio matrum. Varro. They pine away.Subijcere agnum sub alterius mammam, si parum habet lactis mater. Varro. To put to an other Ewe.Subrumare agnos. Colum. To put lambes to the teate.Submittere agnum nutrici. Colum. To put to the ewe.Summouere agnos. Colum. To take from the flocke to sell, or eate.Sugere mammam matris dicuntur agni. Varro. To sucke. Lactens agna.Ouid.Sucking.Mera. Varro. Very young chiluer lambe.Nitida. Horat. Niuea. Iuuenal. Nouella.Ouid. Pauens. Ouid.Pulla. Horat. Tenera. Stat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
agnus, i, m. (gen. plur. agnūm, Porc. Licin. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 13) [cf. a)mno/s, which Benfey connects with o)/i+s = Sanscr. avis; Lith. ávinas = sheep], a lamb, usually for sacrifice: TERTIA. SPOLIA. IANO. QVIRINO. AGNOM. MAREM. CAEDITO, from an ancient law (of Numa?), in Fest. s. v. opima, p. 190: IVNONI. CRINIBVS. DEMISSIS. AGNAM. FEMINAM. CAEDITO., from a law of Numa in Gell. 4, 33, and Fest. s. v. pellices, p. 121: jam ego te hic agnum faciam et medium distruncabo, Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 54; Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 4 al.: agnus absque maculā, Vulg. Exod. 12, 5: agnos immaculatos, ib. Lev. 14, 10: villa abundat porco, haedo, agno, Cic. Sen. 16, 56; id. Div. 2, 11, 39; Ov. M. 7, 320; Hor. C. 3, 18, 13: ara avet immolato Spargier agno, id. ib. 4, 11, 8 al.—Prov.: Agnum lupo eripere velle, to wish to rescue a lamb from a wolf, i. e. to wish what is impossible, Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 31.—Eccl. Lat., of Christ: quasi agni immaculati Christi, Vulg. 1 Pet. 1, 19: Ecce Agnus Dei, ib. Joan. 1, 29: ceciderunt coram Agno, ib. Apoc. 5, 8 al.