A marble stone. Nitor marmorum. Plin. The faire beautie of marble stones. Templum de marmore. Virg. Candens marmor. Luct. Deformata marmora prima manu. Quintil. Marble geossely wrought. Læue marmor. Virg. Solido de marmore templa. Virg. Expolire marmor. Quint. To polishe marble. Incidere marmori. Suet. Incisum matmor. Horat. Wrought. Nobilitatus marmore Praxiteles, Vide NOBILIS. Simulacrum è marmore. Cic. Secare marmora. Horat. InsidÛ remis impellerêre marmor. Virg. Id est, equor mare. In lento luctantur marmore consæ. Virg. The towers trauell in the quiet sea.

I. Lit.: in omni marmore, Cic. Div. 2, 21, 48: Parium marmor, Quint. 2, 19, 3; 5, 11, 30: tu secanda marmora Locas, Hor. C. 2, 18, 17: templum de marmore ponam, Verg. G. 3, 13; cf.: vivos ducent de marmore vultus, id. A. 6, 848: parietes crusta marmoris operire totius domus, Plin. 36, 6, 7, 48: A MARMORIBVS, one whose office it was to superintend the purchasing and working of marble, Inscr. Grut. 593, 7: marmora, kinds of marble, Sen. Ep. 100, 5; Plin. 36, 7, 11, 54; 36, 16, 25, 126; but blocks or pieces of marble, Hor. l. l.; Luc. 10, 114; Plin. 24, 17, 102, 160; 36, 1, 1, 2; Quint. 5, 11, 30; Mart. 5, 22, 8; v. infra.—

II. Transf.

A. Pulverized marble, marble-dust, Cato, R. R. 2, 3; Col. 12, 20 fin.; Plin. 14, 19, 24, 120; 23, 1, 24, 45.—

B. A marble, i. e.,

1. A piece of wrought marble, marble statue, etc.: Praxiteles marmore nobilitatus est Gnidiaque Venere, Plin. 7, 38, 39, 127; Hor. C. 4, 8, 13; Ov. M. 5, 234; 12, 487: duo marmora, id. ib. 7, 790; cf.: lacrimas marmora manant, id. ib. 6, 312; so plur., Sen. Ep. 90, 26; Plin. 12, 1, 5, 9; 33, 7, 40, 122; Stat. Silv. 1, 3, 36; Juv. 1, 12; 14, 40 et saep.—

2. A building of marble, Mart. 8, 3, 6; 10, 63, 1.—

3. In plur., a marble pavement, Mart. 10, 2, 9; 12, 60, 12; Claud. ap. Eutr. 2, 360; Juv. 6, 430.—

C. A mile-stone of marble: rus marmore tertio notatum, i. e. three miles from town, Mart. 7, 31, 10.—

D. A marble slab upon a sideboard, Juv. 3, 205.—

E. A hard, stony tumor in the joints of the horse: plerumque in genibus aut phlegmon oritur, aut marmora, Veg. Vet. 2, 48, 1: tumor obduratione convertitur in marmor, id. ib. 2, 48, 10.—

F. Stone in gen., Ov. M. 5, 214; 11, 404: flumen inducit marmora rebus, incrusts, id. ib. 15, 314.—

G. Poet., the bright level surface of the sea; hence, the surface of the sea, the sea in gen.: verrunt extemplo placide mare marmore flavo, Enn. ap. Gell. 2, 26, 21 (Ann. v. 377 Vahl.); Lucr. 2, 767: lento luctantur marmore tonsae, Verg. A. 7, 28; id. G. 1, 254: Libycum, id. A. 7, 718: spumant vada marmore verso, id. ib. 10, 208: marmora pelagi, Cat. 63, 88: infidum, Sil. 14, 464: medium, the surface of a lake, Val. Fl. 6, 568.