A caue or demie. Abdita antra. Ouid. Cæcum antrum. Lucan. A darke denne. Cauum antrum. Virg. Curuum antrum. Sil. Effossa antra. Martial. Frigida antra. Ouid. Curua antra. Ouid. Gelida. Virg. Immania. Virg. Inferna. Propert. Nigrantia. Claud. Opaca. Sed. Obscura. Ouid. Rorantia fontibus. Ouid. Vasta. Virg. Viridia. Virg. Vda. Martial. Antro se occulit. Val. Flac. Antra subite. Ouid. Antro succedere. Virg. In antra claudi. Ouid.

I. Lit.: succedere antro, Verg. E. 5, 19: subire antra, Ov. M. 1, 121: occulere se antro, Val. Fl. 8, 315: ingens, Verg. A. 6, 42: gratum, Hor. C. 1, 5, 3: gelida antra, Verg. G. 4, 509: silvestria, Ov. M. 13, 47: Dionaeo sub antro, Hor. C. 2, 1, 39: vos Caesarem Pierio recreatis antro, id. ib. 3, 4, 40: quibus antris audiar? id. ib. 3, 25, 4: harenosum Libyae Jovis antrum, Prop. 5, 1, 103: effossa antra, Mart. 13, 60; Stat. S. 4, 6; Sil. 6, 149 et saep.—In prose mostly in eccl. Lat., Vulg. Gen. 23, 20; ib. Jud. 6, 2; ib. 1 Reg. 13, 6; ib. Job, 37, 8; 38, 40: per antra et cavas rupes, Suet. Tib. 43.—

II. Fig., of the hollow of a tree: ekesae arboris antrum, Verg. G. 4, 44.—Of a sedan: clausum antrum, Juv. 4, 21.—Later, of any cavity: narium, Sid. Ep. 1, 2: palati, id. ib. 9, 13: pectoris, Prud. Psych. 6, 774.