Nemus, némoris, pen. cor. n. g. Cic.A woode seruing for pleasure: a groue.Prærupu nemoris dorsum. Horat. Recessus nemorum. Lucan. Saltus nemorum.Virg.The lanne in woods.Strages nemorum. Sil. The cutting downe of woods.Fortunatorum nemorum amœna vireta.Virg.Studiosus nemorum.Ouid. Alta nemora.Virg. Arcanum nemus. Val. Flac.Ardua nemora.Val. Flac.Argntum nemus.Virg.The whistling or rustling woode mareth a lowde noyse.Atrum nemus horrenti vmbra.Virg.Auia nemora. Lucret. Celsum nemus. Sil. Densum nemus arboribus.Ouid.Excelsum.Senec. Opacum. Plin. Ferrugincum.Stat. Seclusum nemus in valle reFœdum.Stat. ducta. Virg.Frondeum.Virg. Solum, Virg.Frondiferum. Lucrer. Sublime Lucan. Frondosum. Apul. Vacoum. Horat. Gelidum. Horat. Vetustum. Iuuen.Nigrum.Virg.Darcke. Vmbriferum. Virg.Obscurum.Senec. Vmbrosum nemus. Ouid.Odoratum lauri nemus. Nemus quod nulla ceciderat ætas.Ouid.A woode or groue that was neuer cut.Nemora & syluæ multos commouent.Cic.Congesto nemore aceruans aggerem.Senec.Making a great heape of trees layed one vpon an other.Succisum curuare nemus. Lucan. To crooke trees that are cut downe to make a bridge.Ignaua nemora cuertit. Virgilius. He did cut dowe barred woodes.Grauescit nemus fœtu.Virg.Insonuit vento nemus.Ouid.Totum inuoluit flammis nemus.Virg.Peragrare nemora.Cic. Flamma peredit nemus. Stat.Plangunt nemora ingenti vento. Virgil. The woodes coarts with great winde.Vernat nemus.Senec.The woode springeth.Violati nemus securi.Ouid.To cut trees with an axe.Omne nemus virebit.Virg.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
nĕmus, ŏris, n. [root nem-, distribute; Gr. ne/mw, nomo/s; cf. ne/mos, pasturage, and Lat. Numa, numerus], = ne/mos, a wood with open glades and meadows for cattle, a wood with much pasture-land, a grove;poet., a wood in gen. (cf.: saltus, silva, lucus). I.Lit.: cras foliis nemus Multis tempestas Sternet, Hor. C. 3, 17, 9: multos nemora silvaeque commovent, Cic. Div. 1, 50, 114: in nemore Pelio, Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 22, 34 (Trag. v. 280 Vahl.): montium custos nemorumque (Diana), Hor. C. 3, 22, 1: gelidum, id. ib. 1, 1, 30: nemorum saltus, Verg. E. 6, 56: nemus arboribus densum, Ov. F. 6, 9: nemorum avia, id. M. 1, 479: nemora in domibus sacros imitantia lucos, Tib. 3, 3, 15: sacri fontis nemus, Juv. 3, 17.—B. In partic., a heath or grove consecrated to a divinity: Angitiae nemus, Verg. A. 7, 759.—Also alone: Nĕmus, the sacred grove of Diana at Aricia, where Cæsar had a villa, Cic. Att. 15, 4, 5; cf.: tabulam pictam in nemore Dianae posuit, Plin. 35, 7, 33, 52; v. nemorensis, II. B.—II.Poet. transf., a tree: nemora alta, Luc. 1, 453; Mart. 9, 62, 9; cf. Verg. G. 2, 401.—Also, wood: strictum acervans nemore congesto aggerem, Sen. Herc. Fur. 1216.