LepÛs, léporris, pen. cor. m. g. Varro. An hare.Autiti lepores.Virg.Proni lepores.Ouid.Hares low before.Exagitatus lepus.Ouid.An hare hunced.Solicitus lepus.Ouid.The searefull hare.Velox lepus. Mahilius. Fœcundus lepus. Horat. Venari leporem canibus.Virg.To hunt an hare with hounds.Molles lepores excipere. Propert. Pauidum captare leporem. Horatius. To hunt the fearefull hate. Lepus, Piscis ex lacertorum genere. Plin. A fish that is poyson to a man, and man to him.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lĕpus, ŏris, m. (com., Varr. R. R. 3, 12; Plin. 8, 55, 81, 217; v. infra) [cf. Aeol. and Sicil. le/poris, collat. form of lagw/s, Varr. L. L. 5, 101 Müll.; id. R. R. 3, 12; but Curt. compares lepor, lepidus, root in Gr. la/mpw], a hare, Varr. R. R. 3, 12; Plin. 8, 55, 81, 217: lepus multum somni affert, qui illum edit, Cato ap. Diomed. p. 358 P.; Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 31: auritosque sequi lepores, Verg. G. 1, 308: pavidus, Hor. Epod. 2, 35; id. C. 1, 37, 18: dare semesum leporem, Juv. 5, 167.—Of the she-hare: lepus cum praegnans sit, Varr. R. R. 3, 12; Plin. 8, 55, 81, 219; cf.: fecundae leporis, Hor. S. 2, 4, 44 (fecundi, Keller).—Prov.: aliis leporem exagitare, to hunt the hare for others, i. e. to do something of which others reap the advantage, Petr. 131; cf. Ov. A. A. 3, 661: lepus tute es et pulpamentum quaeris? What! you a hare, and hunting for game? —In mal. part., Liv. Andron. ap. Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 36; cf. Don. ad h. l. and Vop. Num. 13. —As a term of endearment: mens pullus passer, mea columba, mi lepus, Plaut. Cas. 1, 50.—II.Transf.A.A poisonous seafish, of the color of a hare, the Aplysia depilans, Linn.; Plin. 9, 48, 72, 155; 32, 1, 3, 8.—B.The constellation Lepus, Cic. Arat. 365; id. N. D. 2, 44, 114; Hyg. Astr. 3, 22; Manil. 5, 159.
