Long and rounde like a tree or piller: smoothe: euen. Aures teretes & religiosæ. Cic. Of fine iudgement, and curious in esteeming a stile. Habere aures teretes. Cic. Ceruix teres. Cic. Gemma teres. Virg. Collum teres. Oui. Lapilli teretes. Ouid. Digiti teretes. Oui. Malum teres. Ouid. Oratio teres. Ci. A stile running pleasantly without greate ornaments of eloquence. Plagæ teretes. Hor. Nettes made of rounde cordes. Puer teres. Horat. Structura teres. Plin. Suræ terctes. Ouid. Totus teres arque rotundus. Horat. All full and persite of himselfe without other helpe.

I. Lit.: stipites, Caes. B. G. 7, 73: palus, Col. 4, 33, 4: trunci arborum, Verg. A. 6, 207: oliva, id. E. 8, 16: virga, Ov. M. 2, 135: fusus, id. ib. 6, 22: hastile, Liv. 21, 8, 10: mucro, Verg. A. 7, 665: lapillus, Ov. M. 10, 260: (fundae) habena, Verg. A. 11, 579.—Of parts of the body: cervix, round, slender, Lucr. 1, 35, Verg. A. 8, 633; so, collum, Ov. M. 10, 113: brachiolum, Cat. 61, 181. surae, Hor. C. 2, 4, 21, Ov. M. 11, 80: membra, Suet. Caes. 45: digiti, Ov. A. A. 1, 622, hence, of the form: puer, Hor. Epod. 11, 28.—Of other objects: plagae, tightly twisted, firmly woven, Hor. C. 1, 1, 28 strophium, Cat. 64, 65: zona, Ov. F. 2, 320: gemma, Verg. A. 5, 313: iaspis, Claud Rapt. Pros. 2, 40: catena, Luc. 3, 565: filum, Plin. 11, 24, 28, 80: mitra, Claud. in Eutr. 2, 185: coma, curling, curly, Varr. ap Non. 328, 12.—

II. Trop., in gen., smooth, polished, elegani: (sapiens) teres atque rotundus, Hor. S. 2, 7, 86, imitated by Aus. Idyll. 16, 4: Atticorum aures teretes et religiosae, Cic. Or. 9, 27: teretes aures intellegensque judicium, id. Opt. Gen. 4, 11: vox in disputationibus, smooth, without impediment, Quint. 11, 3, 64: oratio plena, sed tamen teres, rounded off, polished, Cic. de Or. 3, 52, 199: Ciceroni mollius teretiusque visum est, fretu scribere quam freto, Gell. 13, 20, 15.—Sup. and adv. seem not to occur.