A body: all maner of substance. A felowship, companie or multitude. A volume. Corpus pro sola carne. C. Vires & corpus amisi. I haue lost my strength & haue nothing lefte but skin and bone on me. Artus corporis. Horat. The limmes and partes. Auctus corporis. Lucret. The increase of the bodie. Augmen corporis. Lucret. Idem. Caulæ corporis. Lucret. Compagibus corporis includi. Cicero. To be imprisoned in the bodie: as the soule is. Cura corporis. Suet. Formæ corporum. Quint. Habitus corporis. Quint. The plight of the bodie. Inclinatio corporis. Quint. The bending. Infirmitas corporis. Cic. Nixus corporis. Quint. Nisu corporis, & impetu equi peruasit. Tacit. Vitium corporis abdere. Oui. Velocitas corporis. Tacit. Vmbra corporis. Ouid. Aquæ corpus. Lucret. The substance of the water. Ferri corpus. Lucret. Condensa corpora lapidum. Lucret. Corpus mali habitus. Celsus. A bodie of an yll constitution or completion. Abundans corporis. Claud. Ægrum vel ægrotum corpus. Iuuenal. Æquæuo corpore fratres. Sil. Brethren of like age. Album corpus. Horat. Anile Ouid. Cæca corpora. Lucret. Bodies vnuisible. Cassum anima corpus. Lucret. A body without life. Castum. Seneca. Celeri corpore elapsus. Virg. Charum corpus. Seneca. Clarum. Seneca. Noble. Consortia corpora pœnæ. Ouid. Crassum corpus terræ. Lucret. The thicke bodie. Debile corpus. Lucret. Deforme. Seneca. Densissima setis corpora. Ouid. Dira corpora. Ouid. Diuino corpore Luna. Lucret. Durum corpus. Claud. Effœtum. Ouid. Egenum decoris & frontis. Sil. Egregium. Horat. Exangue. Ouid. Examine vel examinum. Quint. Homo exigm corporis. Horat. Of a small stature. Laborum ferentia corpora. Tac. Able to susteyne labour. Fessa corpora carpunt soporem. Virg. Fluido corpore liquidæ res. Lucr. Liquide thinges of moylt substance. Fluxa & resoluta corpora. Colum. Weake and feeble bodies. Formosi corporis spolium dies aufert. Senec. Time berefteth the bodie of his beautie. Fortia corpora. Virg. Fortissimo rum corporum educatio. Quint. Frigidum & exangue corpus alicuius complecti. Quint. To imbrace a dead bodie. Gelidum corpus. Iuuenal. Genitalia corpora. Lucret. The foure elementes whereof all things are ingendred. Globosa corpora. Lucret. Graue corpus. Horat. Horridum. Seneca. Id ætatis corpora. Tacit. Of that age. Immani corpore pistrix. Virg. Impube corpus. Horat. Coipus inane animæ. Ouid. From which the soule is departed. Inane corpus. Ouid. A dead bodie. Incolume. Lucret. Incultum. Cic. Indomitum. Seneca. Inertia corpora Stat. Infirmum corpus. Ouid. Informe. Stat. Ingens. Ouid. Ingenum. Ouid. Insecabilia corpora. Quint. Intactum vexatione corpus. Liu. Intolerantissima laboris corpora. Liu. That cannot in any wise abyde labour. Inualidum copus. Ouid. Inuisum. Seneca. Inutile. Ouid. Irriguum mero corpus habere. Horat. To haue swilled himself in wine. Iunenile corpus. Virg. Lacerum Ouid. Læta corpora. Lucr. Lusty bodies. Lethata. Ouid. Magoum corpus. Virg. Meretricia corpora. Ouid. Minuta. Lucret. Miserabile corpus. Ouid. Moribundum Lucret. Mortale. Horat. Natiuum. Lucret. Naufraga corpora. Virg. Niuei corporis fœmina. Sen. A woman as white as snowe. Nudum corpus. Ouid. Obelum. Plin. Fat: grosse. Obnoxia corpora. Plin. Obscœna visu. Claud. Onustum corpus vitijs. Horat. Orbum luminibus coipus Plin. Parua corpora netuorum. Lucret. Paruissima corpora. Lucret. Persectum corpas. Lucret. Perfracta cædibus corpora. Val. Flac. Pigrum corpus. Stat. Plenum. Horat. Prædara corpora. Virg. Præstauti corpore taurus. Virg. Prima corpora. Lucret. The foute elements. Procerum corpus caudæ. Lucret. Prodigiosa corpora Quint. Prona Stat. Pulchrum corpus. Virg. Quassatum viribus æui. Luc. Ratum. Lucret. A cleare bodie. Rectum. Quint. A strayte bodie. Resolotum. Ouid. A bodie stretched out. Resupinum. Ouid. Rigeus metu. Senec. Salubria corpora. Tacit. Sancta diuûm corpora. Lucret. Sanum corpus. Iuuenal. Semianimum. Lucret. Semifero corpore mater. Val. Flac. Halfe a woman, halfe a serpent. Semimarinum corpus. Lucret. Senex corpore, nunquam animo. Cic. Sicciora cornu corpora. Carul. Simulaturn corpus. Ouid. The image of ones bodie. Sine nomine corpus. Virg. Solidum. Lucret. Sparsum corpus Senatus. Lucan. Spatiosum. Ouid. Spirantia corpora. Lucan. Spissum corpus. Lucret. Spoliatum lumine corpus. Virg A dead bodie. Subductum. Ouid. Lanke and extenuate. Subtile corpus ventorum. Lucret. Superbum. Horat. Syncerum. Ouid. Tenerum. Virg. Tenue. Celsus. Terrenum. Lucret. Transformia corpora. Ouid. That may be turned into diuers shapes. Truncum corpus. Seneca. A body may med and with the eyes pulled out. Vastum. Seneca. Violatum crimioe. Sil. Distayned with villanie. Vescum. Flin. A little body. Vitiosum Horat. Vulsum. Quint. From which the hayre is rent and pulled. Abiecta corpora ostentui. Tacit. Cast out to be seene. A bit ferrum in corpus. Stat. The sworde pearced into. Abscedere corpore. Tacit. Abstrahere se corpore. Cic. To withdraw himselfe from bodily thoughles, and giue himselfe to deepe musing. Absum ptum corpus. Sil. Wasted: consumed. Affectum corpus. Liu Weake: feeble: sicke: wearie. Labore & vigilijs affecta corpora Liu. Broken. Agitare corpus. Ouid. Applaudere corpus. Ouid. Conclamata corpora. Lucan. Vide CONCLAMO. Coocruciari omni corpote. Lucret. Concussum corpus volnere. Stat. Risu totum corpus concutere. Quint. To laugh that he quaketh againe. Coodere corpus sepulcro. Ouid. To lay in the graue. Conficere corpus suum in labore. Lucret. Contasa corpora magno labore. Cic. Broken, or wearied. Corripere è stratis corpus. Virg. To rife hastily out of bedde. Corripere è lomno corpus. Virg. To start vp sodainely out of his sleepe. Morbi corripiunt corpora. Virg. Dare rumolo corpora. Ouid. To burie. Cemare corpus. Lucan. Curare corpus. Virg. Curare corpora somno. Liu. To refresh the bodies with sleepe. Dare corpus somno. Ouid. To lie downe to sleepe. Decedunt corpore febres. Lucret. Decorare corpora. Quint. Deflectere corpus prono pondere. Catul. Deluocta corpora vita. Virg. Dead. Delecta corpora. Virg. Chosen and piked men. Demittere corpus morti. Ouid. To kill. Deponere corpus. Lucret. To lie downe on the ground. Deponere corpora sub ramis arbons. Virg. To sit downe in the shadowe of a tree. Depre corpus. Ouid. Denoluere corpus in humum. Ouid. To tumble into the earth.

I. Lit. (very frequent in every period and species of composition).

A. In gen., a body, whether living or lifeless: tangere aut tangi nisi corpus nulla potest res, Lucr. 1, 305: animi voluptates et dolores nasci fatemur e corporis voluptatibus et doloribus, etc., Cic. Fin. 1, 17, 55; cf. id. Tusc. 4, 10, 23: vita, quae corpore et spiritu continetur, id. Marcell. 9, 28: parvissima quaeque Corpora constabunt ex partibus infinitis, Lucr. 1, 617: ignea rerum, id. 1, 680: terraï, id. 5, 236: acerbum Neptuni, id. 2, 472: aquae, id. 2, 232 et saep.—Poet., plur. for sing.: nudabant corpora (nymphae) venti, Ov. M. 1, 527; Tib. 1, 8, 52 (cf. sw/mata, Soph. Elec. 1232).—

B. In partic.

1. The flesh of animal bodies: ossa subjecta corpori, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 139; cf. Quint. 1, prooem. 24; 12, 10, 5: amittere, to become poor, lean, Lucr. 1, 1038; Cic. Fam. 7, 26, 2 fin.; cf.: abiit corpusque colorque, Ov. H. 3, 141; and the opp. facere, to become fat, to thrive, Cels. 7, 3 fin.; cf.: quo cibo fecisti tantum corporis, Phaedr. 3, 7, 5.—In a play upon words: inque omni nusquam corpore corpus erat, Mart. Spect. 7, 6.—

b. Transf., the wood under the bark of a tree, Plin. 17, 24, 37, 234.—Of discourse: nervis illis, quibus causa continetur, adiciunt superinducti corporis speciem, the covering, integument, Quint. 5, 8, 2; 2, 10, 5: corpus eloquentiae facere, the substance, the most essential part, id. 10, 1, 87; cf.: corpus orationis enervatur, Petr. 2.—

2. A lifeless body, a corpse, Caes. B. G. 2, 10; 2, 27; Liv. 32, 13, 8 et saep.; Ov. M. 7, 548; id. F. 2, 835 al.—In a double sense, Cic. Sull. 31, 89 Halm.—Poet., the souls of the dead, the shades or departed spirits, Verg. A. 6, 303; 6, 306.—

3. As opposed to the head, the trunk, Ov. M. 11, 794.—

4. In mal. part., the body, person: usuram ejus corporis cepit sibi, Plaut. Am. prol. 108: illa quae corpus puplicat volgo suum, id. Bacch. 4, 8, 22; id. Cist. 2, 3, 21; cf.: corpore quaestum facere, id. Poen. 5, 3, 21 al.; v. quaestus.— Hence also, the testicles, Phaedr. 3, 11, 3; Hor. S. 1, 2, 43.—

5. Periphrastically for the individual, the person (esp. poet., to suggest that which is physically admirable or excellent; also freq. in the histt.): delecta virum corpora, Verg. A. 2, 18; cf.: lectissima matrum, id. ib. 9, 272: quo pulchrior alter non fuit, excepto corpore Turni, id. ib. 7, 650; 11, 690: septena quot annis Corpora natorum, id. ib. 6, 22: ultor vestrae, fidissima corpora, mortis, Ov. M. 3, 58; 7, 655: sororum, Sil. 14, 105; Val. Fl. 2, 653: conjugum vestraque ac liberorum vestrorum, Liv. 21, 13, 7; Tac. A. 4, 72 et saep.: uti corpora nostra ab injuriā tuta forent, Sall. C. 33, 2; Liv. 9, 8, 5; 31, 46, 16: qui liberum corpus (sc. Virginiam) in servitutem addixissent, id. 3, 56, 8; so, liberum, Sall. C. 33, 2; Liv. 5, 22, 1; 29, 21, 6; Plin. Pan. 33, 1.—Of animals: corpora magna boum, heads, Verg. G. 3, 369: seu quis Pascit equos ... Corpora praecipue matrum legat, id. ib. 3, 51; id. A. 1, 193: pro tribus corporibus triginta milia talentum auri precatur accipias, Curt. 4, 11, 6.—

II. Meton., a whole composed of parts united, a body, frame, system, structure, community, corporation, etc.; of ships, the framework, Caes. B. C. 1, 54.—Of fortifications: totum corpus coronā militum cingere, Caes. B. G. 7, 72.—Of a land: Sicilia dirempta velut a corpore majore, Just. 4, 1, 1.—Of the state: alterum (praeceptum Platonis), ut totum corpus rei publicae curent, nec dum partem aliquam tuentur, reliquas deserant, Cic. Off. 1, 25, 85: quae (multitudo) coalescere in populi unius corpus poterat, Liv. 1, 8, 1; cf. id. 34, 9, 3; and: nullum civitatis, a political body, id. 26, 16, 9; 38, 9, 12; Tac. G. 39; Just. 3, 2, 2: totum corpus Macedoniae, id. 7, 1, 12; Liv. 26, 16, 9: sui corporis regem creari, id. 1, 17, 2: corpus mercatorum, guild, Ambros. Ep. 20, 6: corpori valido caput deerat (sc. exercitui dux), Liv. 5, 46, 5: oriundi ab Sabinis sui corporis creari regem volebant, id. 1, 17, 2; cf. id. 4, 9, 4; 6, 34, 5 al.: fabrorum et naviculariorum, Dig. 50, 6, 5: utros ejus habueris libros ... duo enim sunt corpora ... an utrosque, nescio, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11 (13), 4; so of a book, id. Fam. 5, 12, 4; Sen. Tranq. 9, 6; Suet. Gram. 6; Dig. 32, 50 al.; cf.: corpus omnis Romani juris, Liv. 3, 34, 7; hence, Corpus Juris, title of a Roman collection of laws, Cod. Just. 5, 13: rationum, Dig. 40, 5, 37: patrimonii, ib. 4, 2, 20: omnia maternae hereditatis, ib. 4, 31, 79.