A signe declaring one mans land or grounde from an other. A bound: a limite. The end of any thing. Pangere terminos, Vide PANGO. To sette boundes or meeres. Constituere sibi certos fines & terminos. Ci. Nullis terminis circumscribere aut definire ius suum. Cic. Terminus. Cic. The ende of any thing. Omnium ætatum certus est terminus: senectutis autem nullus certus est terminus. Angustus æui terminus. Virg. Finis & terminus contentionum. Cic. Malorum terminus. Lucret. Longius qum vitæ termini postulant, cogitare. Cice. To looke and minde further, than the boundes and compasse of his life requyreth. Terminus supremus. Plin. Stabilis terum terminus. Hor. A steadfast ende of things. Si hic terminus hæret. Virg. If this be an end certaine and vnmutable. Immobilis terminus. Claud. Terminâlis & hoc terminâle. pe. prod. Belonging to bounds. vt, Terminalis lapis. A meere stone.

I. Lit., of local boundaries: contentio de terminis, Cic. Ac. 2, 43, 132: agrorum, Plin. 18, 2, 2, 8; Hor. C. 2, 18, 24: templi, Liv. 45, 5, 7: urbis, Tac. A. 12, 23; 12, 24 fin.: possessionum, Cic. Mil. 27, 74: vicinitatis, id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8: Alexandria, in terminis Africae et Aegypti condita, Just. 21, 6, 3.—Comically, = membrum virile, Pompon. ap. Non. 146, 24 (Com. Fragm. v. 126 Rib.).— Hence,

B. Personified: Termĭnus, the deity presiding over boundaries, Ov. F. 2, 639 sq.; Varr. L. L. 5, 10, 22; Liv. 1, 55, 3; 5, 54, 7; Hor. C. S. 27; Lact. 1, 20, 38; Fest. p. 368; Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 448. —

II. Transf., in gen., a bound, limit, end, term: constituendi sunt, qui sint in amicitiā fines, ut quasi termini diligendi, Cic. Lael. 16, 56; cf.: certos mihi fines terminosque constituam, id. Quint. 10, 35: oratoris facultatem non illius artis terminis, sed ingeni sui finibus describere, id. de Or. 1, 49, 214: contentionum, id. Fam. 6, 22, 2: nullis terminis circumscribere aut definire jus suum, id. de Or. 1, 16, 70: Pompeius, cujus res gestae atque virtutes isdem quibus solis cursus regionibus ac terminis continentur, id. Cat. 4, 10, 21: omnium aetatum certus est terminus, senectutis autem nullus est certus terminus, id. Sen. 20, 72: vitae, id. Rab. Perd. 10, 29: pangere terminos, id. Leg. 1, 21, 56: termini egestatis, Plaut. As. 1, 2, 13: hos terminos dignitati statuo, Plin. Ep. 6, 29, 3.