To strike or kill with stones: to rayne stones. Laprdata tÊpla. Tranquil. Temples battared with stones in a tempest. Lapidauit. Liu. It rayned stones. De cælo lapidauerat. Liu. Idem. Lapidatum est, id est, lapidibus pluit. Liu.

A stone: a mill: an hill: a negligent person that sticreth not liuely in doing. Coniectus lapidum. Lucr. A hurling of stones. Lapis bibulus. Virg. A pumish stone. Clari lapides. Horat. Lapis incusus. Virg. A mill stone pecked and wrought. Lubricus lapis Sen. Missiles lapides. Liu. Molaris lapis. Quint. A mill stone. Nudus lapis. Virg. Operaril lapides, Vide OPVS. Ordinarius lapis. Vitru. Osseus lapis. Plin. Parius lapis. Virg. White marble. Pellociduli lapidis deliciæ. Catul. Appetere lapidibus, Vide APPETO. Circunstruere lapidibus. Plin. To lay stones round about. Cooperire aliquem lapiditus, Vide COOPERIO. Lapidem ferre altera manu, panem ostÊtare altera. Plaut. To beare a stone in one hand & bread in the other: To flatter before ones face & speake vnhappily behinde his backe. Dpenly to shew him selfe a friende & priuily to play the enemie. Iactare lapidem. Virg. Iactu lapidum incessere aliquem. Ouid. Incidere in lapidem, Vide INCIDO. Loqueris lapides. Plaut. Thy wordes kill me or beate out my braines. Candidiore lapide notare diem. Catul. Obruere lapidibus, Vide OBRVO. Lapidem verberare. Plaut. To loose his labour. Lapidibus apud veteres miliaria signabantur: idcirco lapis quandoq; pro miliario ponitur. Vnde Ad quartum lapidem, & similia frequentissimè apud Liuium leguntur. Foure miles off. Et extra primum lapidem. Bud. More than a mile from. Lapis pro monre. Virg. Quamuis lapis omnia oudus, limosóque palus obducat paicua iunco. Virg. De lapide empti. Slanes & vile persons bought in the market standing on a stone. I apidem, hominem dicimus. Teren. A slow felow that doth not bestirre him. Quid stas lapis? Terent.

I. With personal object: exercitus imperatorem lapidavit, Flor. 1, 22; Petr. 93: eum lapidare coeperunt, Auct. B. Hisp. 23: Stephanum, Vulg. Act. 7, 58: Paulum, id. ib. 14, 18.—

(b). To cast stones upon, to bury: praeteriens aliquis nos lapidabit, Petr. 114, 11.—

(g). With an inanim. object: quo defunctus est die, lapidata sunt templa, Suet. Calig. 5.—

B. Trop., to assail, assault, strike at: notantes impotentiam ejus hac dicacitate lapidatam, Macr. S. 2, 7 init.—

II. Impers.: lapidat, it rains stones: quia Veiis de caelo lapidaverat, Liv. 27, 37: Reate imbri lapidavit, id. 43, 13.—In the pass. form: quod de caelo lapidatum esset, Liv. 29, 14, 4: propter crebrius eo anno de caelo lapidatum, id. 29, 10, 4.

I. In gen.: stillicidi casus lapidem cavat, Lucr. 1, 313: undique lapides in murum jaci coepti sunt, Caes. B. G. 2, 6; cf. Cic. Mil. 15, 41: pars eminus glande aut lapidibus pugnare, Sall. J. 57, 4: lapide percussus, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 33: lapidem habere, ut illi cerebrum excutiam, id. Capt. 3, 4, 69; cf. Cic. de Or. 2, 47, 197: consul ingentem vim modicorum, qui funda mitti possent, lapidum paraverat, Liv. 38, 20, 1; Gell. 4, 14, 3 sqq.: e lapide duro parietes construere, Plin. 36, 22, 51, 171: lapis duritia marmoris, id. 36, 22, 46, 163: bibulus, sandstone, pumice-stone, Verg. G. 2, 348: molaris, a millstone, Quint. 2, 19, 3; cf.: num me illue ducis, ubi lapis lapidem terit? i. e. into the mill, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 16: Parius, Parian stone, i. e. Parian marble, Verg. A. 1, 593: lapide candidiore diem notare, i. e. to mark with a white stone the luckiest day, Cat. 68, 148; cf. lapillus.—

B. Trop. for dulness, stupidity, want of feeling: ego me credidi homini docto rem mandare: is lapidi mando maximo, Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 47: i, quid stas, lapis? quin accipis? Ter. Heaut. 4, 7, 3; cf. id. ib. 5, 1, 43: tu, inquam, mulier, quae me omnino lapidem, non hominem putas, id. Hec. 2, 1, 17; and with silex (q. v.): tu es lapide silice stultior, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 78; cf.: lapides mehercule omnes flere ac lamentari coëgisses, Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 245: lapis est ferrumque suam quicumque puellam verberat, Tib. 1, 10, 59: aut mare prospiciens in saxo frigida sedi, quamque lapis sedes, tam lapis ipsa fui, Ov. H. 19, 30.—Prov.: lapidem ferre altera manu, altera panem ostentare, i. e. to flatter openly and injure secretly, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 18: verberare lapidem, i. e. to hurt one's self more than one's enemy, id. Curc. 1, 3, 41: lapides loqui, to speak hard words, id. Aul. 2, 1, 29: ad eundem lapidem bis offendere, to commit the same error twice, Aus. Ep. 11; so, bis ad eundem (sc. lapidem), Cic. Fam. 10, 20, 2.—

II. In partic.

A. A mile-stone, set up on the roads at every thousand paces, which made a Roman mile; hence, with an ordinal numeral added to denote distance in miles: ad quartum et vicesimum lapidem a Roma, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 14; cf.: effoditur ad vigesimum ab Urbe lapidem, Plin. 33, 12, 56, 159: sacra videt fieri sextus ab Urbe lapis, Ov. F. 6, 682: intra vicesimum lapidem, Liv. 5, 4 fin.: duodecimum apud lapidem, Tac. A. 3, 45: a tertio lapide, Flor. 2, 6 fin.: ad lapidem undecimum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 250 Müll.—Sometimes ellipt. without lapis: ad duodecimum a Cremona, Tac. H. 2, 24: ad quartum, id. ib. 2, 39: ad octavum, id. ib. 3, 15.—

B. The stone or stone elevation on which the prætor stood at slavesales: in eo ipso astas lapide, ubi praeco praedicat, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 7, 17; Col. 3, 3, 8: praeter duos de lapide emptos tribunos, Cic. Pis. 15, 35.—

C. Terminalis, a landmark, boundary-stone, Amm. 18, 2, 15; called lapis alone, Lact. 1, 20 fin.; so, lapis sacer, Liv. 41, 13; cf.: non fixus in agris, qui regeret certis finibus arva, lapis, Tib. 1, 3, 44; cf. id. 1, 1, 12.—

D. A gravestone, tombstone, Prop. 3 (4), 1, 37; Tib. 1, 3, 54; called also ultimus, Prop. 1, 17, 20.—

E. A precious stone, gem, jewel, pearl (mostly poet.), Cat. 69, 3: gemmas et lapides, Hor. C. 3, 24, 48: clari lapides, id. ib. 4, 13, 14; Ov. A. A. 1, 432; Sil. 12, 231; Mart. 11, 50, 4; Tac. A. 3, 53; Macr. S. 7, 13, 11.—

F. A statue: Jovem lapidem jurare, the statue of Jupiter at the Capitol, Cic. Fam. 7, 12, 2; Gell. 1, 21, 4; v. Juppiter.—

2. Meton.: albus, a table of white marble, a marble table, Hor. S. 1, 6, 116.