Cubîle, huius cubîlis, n. g. pen. prod. Cic.A bed or couch.Terra cubile erat Anacharsi.Cic.He lay vpon the ground: the ground was his bed.Atrum cubile.Senec. Castum. Val. Flac.Consueta cubilia.Ouid. Humana. Propert. Hibernum cubile. Claud. Obseurum. Senec.Patrium.Ouid. Prædura cubilia. Cland. Very hard beds.Secreta.Ouid. Tacitum cubile. Catul. Viduum.Ouid. In cubili collocare aliquem.Cic.To lay in his bed.Inire cubile alterius.Cic.To commit aduoutrie.Instratum cubile.Virg.A bed made.Ponere cubile.Virg.Sociate cubilia cum aliquo.Ouid.To lie with one.Temerare cubile patrium.Ouid.Vsurpare duplex cubili dicitur mulier, quum adultera tur. Cic.To lye with an other beside her husband. Cubilia & nidi gallinarum & auium.Cic.Birdes neastes. Cubilia, etiam loca dicuntur, in quibus feræ cubare solent. Colum. Beastes dennes.Delitescunt cubilibus bestiæ.Cic.Hide them in their dens.Moliri cubilia ferarum. Quint. Rimoa cubilia. pro Aluearijs. Virg.Bee hyues. Dura cubilia ferri eruere. Valer. To digge the hard yron mynes.Congesta cubilia blattis.Virg. Fraudum cubilia. Cland. Cubilia auaritiæ alicuius.Cic.The neastes of his couetousnesse. Cubile salutatorium. Plin. A little chappel or closet in ones house. Cubile etiam dicitur de scructura. Plin. A seate or couche made of stoueworke.
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cŭbīle, is, n. [cubo], a place of rest, a couch, bed. I.Lit.1. Of men, Lucr. 5, 814; 5, 985; Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 90; 2, 17, 39; Liv. 30, 5, 10; Hor. S. 1, 3, 100; Curt. 5, 2, 15: salutatorium,
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, Plin. 15, 11, 10, 38.—b. In partic., a marriage-bed, Poët. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 1; Cat. 61, 183; Verg. A. 3, 324; Ov. M. 2, 592; 10, 635 et saep.—2. Of animals, the nest, lair, hole, kennel, etc.; of the mouse: mus pusillus ... aetatem uni cubili numquam committit suam, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 16.—Of dogs, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 12 sq.; Phaedr. 1, 19, 9.—Of wild beasts, Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 126.— Of the elk, Caes. B. G. 6, 27.—Of the mole, Verg. G. 1, 183.—Of bees, Verg. G. 4, 243.— Of serpents, etc., Curt. 9, 3, 8 al.—3.Poet., the couch of the setting sun: ad ortus Solis ab Hesperio cubili, Hor. C. 4, 15, 16; cf.: cubile noctis, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1140.—B.Transf., in arch., the joint or bed of a stone, beam, etc., Vitr. 2, 8; 4, 2; Plin. 36, 14, 21, 96; cf. cubiculum, II. B.—II.Trop.: avaritiae non jam vestigia, sed ipsa cubilia videre, the very den or lair, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77, 190; cf. id. Clu. 30, 82: quas (stragis) nos non vestigiis odorantes ingressus tuos, sed totis volutationibus corporis et cubilibus persecuti sumus, id. Pis. 34, 83 al.