Waxe: images of waxe, with braunches to declare the genealogie of noble men: also a certaine roote. Ceras aliquando pro libellis siue epistolis capimus. Iuuen. Bookes: tables: letters. Primæ & secundæ ceræ testamenti, pro primis & secundis tabellis siue folijs testamenti. Suet. The first leaues. Codicis cera extrema. Cic. Alba. Plin. Commutabilis. Cic. Flaua. Ouid. Flauens. Ouid. Fragilis. Iuuen. Impatiens caloris. Ouid. Infamis ac nefaria. Cic. Laborata. Stat. Made with great paine of bees. Legitima. Cic. Miniatula. Cic. Red waxe. Odorata. Ouid. Pusilla. Iuuenal. Ceræ sexangulæ. Ouid. Litle holes in the houy combe, wherin the hony is. Solutæ igne ceræ. Ouid. Melted. Tenax cera. Virg. Clanmle. Tenues ceræ. Val. Flac. Circunlinire cera. Cic. Ceræ credere aliquid. Plaut. To write in tables of waxe. Calamos cera coniungere plures. Virg. Nomen alicuius cera defigere. Ouid. Fingere in ceris. Cic. To worke or make in waxe. Mollissimam ceram ad arbitrium formare & fingere. Cic. To fashion and worke waxe. Illita ceris pocula. Ouid. Liquescit cera. Virg. Melteth. Mollire ceram digitis. Ouid. To make soft. Tabescere ceræ dicunt. Ouid.

To dresse or couer with waxe.

II. Meton., acc. to its diff. uses.

A. Most freq., a writing-tablet covered with wax, Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 59; id. Curc. 3, 40; Cic. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 62; Ov. M. 9, 521; Liv. 1, 24, 7; Quint. 1, 1, 27; 10, 3, 31; 11, 2, 32; Suet. Caes. 83 al. —Hence, prima, secunda, etc., cera, the first, etc., leaf or page, Suet. Ner. 17; Hor. S. 2, 5, 54; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 36, 92.—

B. A seal of wax, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 96; Cic. Fl. 16, 37; Ov. Am. 2, 15, 16; Plin. 2, 51, 52, 137.—

C. A waxen image of an ancestor, a wax figure: cera illa (sc. majorum imaginum) atque figura, Sall. J. 4, 6; Ov. F. 1, 591; Juv. 8, 19; cf.: expressi cerā voltus, Plin. 35, 2, 2, 6.—

D. Wax used in encaustic painting, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 4 Schneid.; Plin. 35, 7, 31, 49; id. 35, 11, 39, 122; and 35, 11, 41, 149; Stat. S. 1, 1, 100.