The inner. In interiore ædium parte. Cic. Africam interiorem obtinens. Ci. The inner part of Airike. Domus interior. Vir. The inner part of the honse. Interior epistola. Cic. The middle part of the letter. Qui interiores scrntantus & reconditas literas. Cic. Which study deepe and profound learning. Interior tactus. Cic. Motus interior. Cic. Societas interior & propior. Cic. More nigh socictie. Tectum interius. Vir. Vicinus interior. Cic. Interior & familiaris vita, publicæ administrationi opponitur. Suet. Nihil est interius mente. Cic. Nothing is deeper in vs than out mind.

I. A.. In gen.: in interiore aedium parte, Cic. Sest. 10: spatium, Ov. M. 7, 670: secessit in partem interiorem, Liv. 40, 8: in interiore parte ut maneam solus cum sola, i.e. within, in the women's apartment, Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 31: interior domus, the inner part of the house, Verg. A. 1, 637; cf. epistola, the body of the letter, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 5: erit aliquid interius (mente), Cic. N. D. 1, 11: motu cietur interiore et suo (opp. quod pulsu agitatur externo), id. Tusc. 1, 23, 54: nationes, i. e. living farther in the interior, farther inland, id. de Imp. Pomp. 22: homo, i. e. the life and soul, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 66.—Hence, substt.

1. intĕrĭōres, um, m., they who live farther inland: Angrivarii multos redemptos ab interioribus reddidere, Tac. A. 2, 24.—

2. intĕrĭōra, the inner parts or places: aedium, Cic. Att. 4, 3, 3: regni, Liv. 42, 39, 1: navis, Vulg. Jon. 1, 5: deserti, id. Exod. 3, 1.—

(b). Esp. of the body, intestines, bowels: interiorum morbi, Cels. 1 praef. 68; Veg. 1, 39, 2.—

(g). Trop., the feelings, character: interiora ejus plena sunt dolo, Vulg. Sir. 19, 23.—

B. Esp., in the race-course, nearer the goal, on the left; for they drove from right to left: nunc stringam metas interiore rotā, Ov. Am. 3, 2, 12: meta, id. A. A. 2, 426: gyrus, Hor. S. 2, 6, 26; cf. Verg. A. 11, 695: et medius ... ibat, et interior, si comes unus erat, Ov. F. 5, 68. —

II. In partic.

A. Nearer: toto corpore interior periculo vulneris factus, i. e. as he was too near him to be in danger of a wound from him, Liv. 7, 10: ictibus, within the line of fire, id. 24, 34: timor, Cic. de Or. 2, 51: torus, the side nearest the wall, Ov. Am. 3, 14, 32: nota Falerni, from the inmost part of the cellar, i. e. the oldest, Hor. C. 2, 3, 8: sponda regiae lecticae, Suet. Caes. 49.—

B. More hidden, secret, or unknown: sed haec quoque in promptu fuerint: nunc interiora videamus, Cic. Div. 2, 60: interiores et reconditae litterae, id. N. D. 3, 16, 42: consilia, Nep. Hann. 2: haec interiora, the personal worth, opp. illa externa, public deeds, Cic. Ac. 2, 2, 4.—

C. Deeper, more intimate, nearer: vicini, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, 7: societas, id. Off. 3, 17: amicitia interior, Liv. 42, 17: potentia, greater, Tac. H. 1, 2: cura, Sil. 16, 339; cf. litterae, more profound, Cic. Fam. 3, 10, 9; 7, 33, 2. — Neutr. plur., with gen.: in interiora regni se recepit, Liv. 42, 39. — Hence, intĕrĭ-us, adv., in the inner part, on the inside, within, = intra (freq. only since the Aug. per.): ne fluat oratio, ne vagetur, ne insistat interius, ne excurrat longius, i. e. be too short or brief, Cic. de Or. 3, 49, 190; cf. Sen. Tranq. 9: in eo sinu duo maria: Ionium in prima parte, interius Hadriaticum, Plin. 3, 26, 29, 150; cf. Mela, 1, 6, 2; 1, 19, 1; 2, 1, 12: rapiat sitiens Venerem interiusque recondat, Verg. G. 3, 137; so Ov. M. 6, 306.—

B. Esp. farther inland, farther from the sea: penetrare, Vell. 2, 120, 2: habitare, Mel. 2, 1, 12: esse, id. 1, 19, 1; Plin. 3, 26, 29, 150.—

C. Trop. of mental operations, more inwardly or deeply: ne insistat interius (oratio), Cic. de Or. 3, 49, 190: attendere, Juv. 11, 15.