Caninius, One that was Consull of Rome onelye seauen honres.
Canînus, pen. prod. Adiectiuum. Doggish: currish: of a dogge.Canina eloquentia. Quint. Doggish elnquence, practised in depraning of other.Canini dentes. Plin. The eye teeth.Verba canina latrare.Ouid.To rasse spitefully.Caninum prandium, vocatur abstemium.Plaut.A dinner without wine.Caninus appetitus.The hungry fickenesse.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Cănīnĭus, a, the name of a plebeian gens at Rome.I. C. Caninius Rebilus, lieutenant of Cœ sar in Gaul, consul for a few hours at the end of December, A. U. C. 709; hence the jest of Cicero: Caninio consule scito neminem prandisse, Cic. Fam. 7, 30, 1; cf. id. Att. 12, 37, 4.—II. Caninius Rebilus, perh. a son of the preceding, notorious for his abandoned life, Sen. Ben. 2, 21, 5.—III. L. Caninius Gallus, accuser of Antony, afterwards his son-in-law, Cic. Fam. 1, 2, 1; 1, 4, 1; 2, 8, 3; 7, 1, 4; 9, 2, 1; Val. Max. 4, 2, 6. —Hence, Cănīnĭānus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Caninius Gallus: tempus,
the time when Caninius proposed that Pompey should restore the dethroned king Ptolemy
, Varr. R. R. 2, 7; 3; Cels. 8, 1; Plin. 11, 37, 61, 160: scaeva canina,
a favorable augury taken from meeting a dog or from his barking
, Plaut. Cas. 5, 4, 4.—B.Subst.: canīna, ae, f. (sc. caro), dog's flesh: canis caninam non ēst, Auct. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, 32 Müll.—II.Trop.: prandium, in which no wine is drunk, mean, Varr. ap. Gell. 13, 30, 12 sq. (v. the connection, and cf. with our dog-cheap): littera, i. e. the letter R, Pers. 1, 109: facundia, i. e. abusive from its snarling sound, snarling, Appius ap. Sall. H Fragm. 2, 37 Dietsch (from Non. p. 60, 24): eloquen tia, Quint. 12, 9, 9; Lact. 6, 18, 26; cf. Spald. Quint. l. l.: caninum studium locupletissimum quemque adlatrandi, i. e. causidicorum. Col. 1, praef. 9: verba,