A rocke: a stone: an hill. Porcum saxo silice percussit. Liu. With a flinte stone. Robur saxi, Lucr. Radices saxi. Lucr. Adamantina saxa. Lucr. Antiqua. Virg. Arentia. Ouid. Frigida. Stat. Circumlita musco saxa. Hor. Graue saxum. Ouid. Dura. Vir. Ingens. Vir. Intemerata saxa gradu. Sil. Rockes that were neuer gone on. Liquefacta saxa voluit Aetna. Vir. Lucida saxa Stat. Missilia Liu. Putria. Claud. Rigidum saxum. Ouid. Rubrum saxum quadratum. Vitruuius. Scruposa saxa. Luca. Surda. Ouid. Tumuli saxum venerabile. Lucan. Viuum saxum. Virg. Asperare saxo mucronÊ. Tac. To whet or sharpen his sword with a stone. Dura tamen molli saxa cauantur aqua. Ouid. Grandia saxa conijcere. Virg. Ingerere saxa, Vide INGERO. Intorquere saxum. Sil. Perrumpere saxa. Hor. Gurtæ pertundunt saxa. Lucre. Petisaxis. Oui. To be hurled at with stones. Reuulsum saxum è monte Ouid. Auulsa saxa mœnibus rotare. Stat. Signare carmine saxum. Ouid. To graue an Epitaph on a stone or tumbe. Templa Dei saxa structa vetusto. Virg. Subigere saxum. Sil. To rolle or tumble a stone. Iamque faces & saxavolant. Vir. Saxa voluere. Vir. Saxum voluere. Prouerb. Ter. To be occupyed and weatied with continual and vnprofitable labour. Saxum pro Scopulo. Virg. A rocke. Acuta saxa. Hor. Ardua saxis insula. Vir. Aprica saxa. Virg. Asperum saxum. Cic. Dolosa saxa. Senec. Rocks hid in the water and lying in the way to burt. Fera. Valer. Flac. Spumea, Vir. Gelida. Lucr. Præcipitia. Ouid. Inuia. Vir. Prærupta. Sil.

I. In gen., Lucr. 4, 266 sq.; cf. id. 1, 882: non est e saxo sculptus, Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 100: pars ludicre saxa Jactant, inter se licitantur, Enn. ap. Non. 134, 13 (Ann. v. 76 Vahl.): (Sisyphum) adverso nixantem trudere monte Saxum, etc., Lucr. 3, 1001: miser impendens magnum timet aëre saxum Tantalus, id. 3, 980: saxo cere comminuit brum, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 412 (Ann. v. 586 Vahl.); cf.: si glebis aut saxis aut fustibus aliquem de fundo praecipitem egeris, Cic. Caecin.21,60: magni ponderis saxa, in muro collocare, Caes. B. G. 2, 29; cf. id. ib. 7, 22 fin.; 7, 23; 7, 46: (Thyestes) summis saxis fixus asperis, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107 (Trag. v. 413 Vahl.); cf.: aspicite religatum asperis Vinctumque saxis (Prometheum), Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 23: speluncas saxis pendentibu' structas, Lucr. 6, 195; cf., of the cave of Cacus: jam primum saxis suspensam hanc aspice rupem, Verg. A. 8, 190: tot congesta manu praeruptis oppida saxis, id. G. 2, 156: inter saxa rupesque, Liv. 21, 40: saxa spargens tabo, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107 (Trag. v. 414 Vahl.): vesco sale saxa peresa, Lucr. 1, 326: nec turbida ponti Aequora fligebant naves ad saxa, id. 5, 1001: si ad saxum quo capessit, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 89 et saep.: lapis non saxum est, Plin. 36, 22, 49, 169.—In apposition: in saxis silicibus uberiores aquae sunt, in limestone rocks, Vitr. 8, 1.—

2. Prov.

a. Saxum volvere, i. e. to strive or endeavor in vain (alluding to the stone of Sisyphus): satis diu hoc jam saxum volvo, Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 55.—

b. Inter sacrum saxumque stare; v. sacrum, A. 2. b.—

II. In partic.

A. For Saxum Tarpejum (cf. Fest. p. 343 Müll. and v. Tarpejus, II.), the Tarpeian Rock: horribilis de saxo jactus, Lucr. 3, 1016; Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 31; Cic. Att. 14, 16, 2; Hor. S. 1, 6, 39; Tac. A. 2, 32; 4, 29; Dig. 48, 19, 25; v. Tarpeius.—

B. Saxum sacrum, the sacred rock on the Aventine, at which Remus consulted the auspices, Cic. Dom. 53, 136; called saxum alone, Ov. F. 5, 150.—

C. A superior kind of Cimolian chalk (creta Cimolia), Plin. 35, 17, 57, 196.—

D. Saxa Rubra; v. ruber, II. B.—

III. Transf.

1. Plur.: saxa, stony ground, rocky places: mitis in apricis coquitur vindemia saxis, Verg. G. 2, 522: Ligurum, Mart. 3, 82, 22.—

2. A stone wall: Romulus saxo lucum circumdedit alto, Ov. F. 3, 431.—

3. The strong foundation of a building: Capitolium quadrato saxo substructum, Liv. 6, 4, 12.