Dos, Ouid.A grace or gift of pleasant talke or singing.Honor oris. Lucret. Goodly fanour.Inanitas. Quint. Holownesse of the mouth in pronouncing or speaking.Grauis odor oris.Ouid.An ill or stinking breath.Recessus.Quintil.The inner part of the mouth.Suauitas. Quint. A pleasant voyce.Saliua. Lucret. Vitia. Quint. Adoperta ora.Ouid.Adunca ora boum.Ouid. Ægrum os. Sil. Animosi oris Accius.Ouid.Arguta ora blandis querelis.Stat.Balbum os. Horat. Cælestia ora. Ouid.Candida.Ouid. Clamosa canis ora. Lucan. Cornea.Ouid.Beakes or billes of birdes.Corruptum os. Quint. A corrnpt pronunciation.Corruscum Claud.Cristati oris alis gallus.Ouid.Culti oris facundia.Ouid.Eloquence of a pleasant tongue.Dissona vulgi ora. Lucan. Dulce os.Ouid.A pleasant and eloquent tongue.Durum. Terept. A shamelesse person.Duri oris puer, & audax.Ouid.Falsi oris ambages.Ouid.Lies: false excuses.Os faticanum.Ouid.Ore floridulo nitens. Catul. Fremebunda ora. Stat.Fœtidum.Cic.A stinking breath.Fumantia.Ouid.Formosum.Ouid. Honestum os. Virg.Frænatum os equi. Hor. Horrenda ora. Virg.Ieiunum os, Vide IEIVNVS.Immania ora, Stat. Impia. Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dōs, ōtis (gen. plur. dotium, Dig. 23, 3, 9, 1 al.; dotum, Val. Max. 4, 4, 11; Tert. Cult. Fem. 2, 9), f. [1. do, like the Sicilian dwti/nh, from dido/nai, Varr. L. L. 5, 175 Müll.], a marriage portion, dowry (for syn. cf.: donum, largitio, munus, donatio, etc.). I. Prop., Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 209; id. Ep. 2, 1, 11 et saep.; Ter. And. 5, 4, 47; id. Heaut. 5, 1, 64 sq. al.; Cic. Caecin. 25 fin.; id. Fl. 35; id. Att. 14, 13, 5; Caes. B. G. 6, 19, 1; Hor. S. 1, 2, 131; id. Ep. 1, 6, 36 et saep.—Cf. on the legal regulations respecting the dos and the t. t. used in them (dotis datio, dictio, promissio, etc.), Cod. Just. 5, 12; Dig. 23, 3 tit.: De jure dotium, Just. Inst. 2, 7, 3; Cod. Just. 5, 15: De dote cauta, non numerata; id. 5, 11: De dotis promissione et nuda pollicitatione; Dig. 33, 4 tit.: De dote praelegata; ib. 37, 7: De dotis collatione; cf. Rein's Privatr. p. 194 sq. —II.Transf., a gift, endowment, talent, property, quality (freq. since the Aug. per.; cf.: indoles, ingenium, facultates, virtutes): (juris civilis) artem verborum dote locupletasti, Cic. de Or. 1, 55: vinearum (pedamenta, vimina), Col. 4, 30, 1; cf. praediorum, Dig. 33, 7, 2; ib. 20, 3: magnae uvarum, Col. 3, 2, 17; cf.: omnis unionum, Plin. 9, 35, 56, 112: mulsi, id. 22, 24, 50, 108: aquatilium, id. 32, 11, 53, 142: formae, Ov. M. 9, 717; cf. oris, id. ib. 5, 562: corporis, id. ib. 583: ingenii (opp. bona corporis), id. A. A. 2, 112; so Curt. 3, 6, 20: corporis, Sen. Vit. Beat. 8, 3: corporis animique dotes, Suet. Tit. 3; cf.: naturae fortunaeque, Plin. Ep. 3, 3, 4: omnes belli et togae, Vell. 1, 12, 3 et saep.: silvarum dotes, the delights, i. e. the chase, Grat. Cyn. 252: est quoque carminibus meritas celebrare puellas Dos mea,
my gift
, Ov. Am. 1, 10, 60: infelix perii dotibus ipse meis, id. Pont. 2, 7, 48: dos erat ille (sc. Phaon) loci,