Treasure: aboundance. Intracti thesauri Arabum; Hor. Thesaurus defossus sub lecto. Ci. Latet in thesauris. Cic. Habere thesauros alicuius. Brutus. Cicer. Obructe thesaurum alicubi. Ci. To butle his treasure in the ground. Recludete thesauros tellure. Vir. To digge ryches out of the ground. Suppeditare alicui aliquid è thesauris suis. Ci. Thesaurus copiarum. Plaut. Aboundance of riches. Thesaurus rerum omnium memoria. Cic. Memorie is the trensure house of al things. Illos locos tanquam thesauros aliquos argumentorum notatos habet. Cic. Repositus thesaurus. Quint. Treasure laide vp. Thesaurum stupri teneo. Plaut. Thesaurus mali. Plaut. Aboundaunce of euil. Condere aliquid in thesauros cauernarum. Plin. To hide in hollow places in the ground. Condere cibum in thesauros maxillarum. Plin. To hide meate in their mouth and checkes to eate after by little and little.

I. Any thing laid or stored up, a hoard, treasure, provision, store.

A. Lit.: TABVLARIVS THENSAVRORVM, Inscr. Orell. 3247: thensaurum effodere, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 53; 4, 4, 8; id. Ps. 2, 2, 33; id. Aul. prol. 7: thesaurum defodere ... invenire, Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134: nec vero quemquam senem audivi oblitum, quo loco thesaurum obruisset, id. Sen. 7, 21: non exercitus neque thensauri praesidia regni sunt, verum amici, Sall. J. 10, 4: intactis opulentior Thesauris Arabum, Hor. C. 3, 24, 2.—

2. Law t. t., treasure trove: thensaurus est vetus quaedam depositio pecuniae, cujus non exstat memoria, ut jam dominum non habeat, Dig. 41, 1, 31, 1; 41, 2, 3, 3; Cod. 10, 15, 1.—

B. Trop. (very rare): thesaurus mali, a great quantity, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 54: stupri, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 456, 19; cf.: augent ex pauxillo; thensaurum inde pariunt, id. Most. 4, 1, 8: thesauros penitus abditae fraudis vultu laeto tegentes, App. M. 5, p. 165, 15. —

2. Of persons, a treasure, loved one, a valued or dear object: Di. Quid, amator novos quispiam? Ast. Integrum et plenum adortust thensaurum, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 13; cf. id. ib. 2, 1, 34: eccum lenonem, incedit, thensaurum meum, id. Curc. 5, 2, 76; cf.: thensaurus copiarum, id. As. 3, 3, 67.—

II. A place where any thing is stored up, a storehouse, treasure - chamber, treasure - vault, treasury (cf.: cella, armarium).

A. Lit.: monedula condens semina in thesauros cavernarum, id. 17, 14, 22, 99; cf. poet., of the cells of bees, Verg. G. 4, 229: admonent quidam, esse thesaurum publicum sub terrā saxo quadrato septum, Liv. 39, 50, 3: Proserpinae, id. 29, 8, 9; 29, 18, 4; 31, 12, 1; cf. poet. of the Lower World: postquam est Orcino traditus thesauro, Naev. ap. Gell. 1, 24, 2.—

2. Esp., a strong-box, treasure-chest: cum thesaurum effregisset heres, Plin. 34, 7, 17, 37: apertis thesauris suis, Vulg. Matt. 2, 11.—

B. Trop., a repository, conservatory, magazine, collection, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 12: quid dicam de thesauro rerum omnium, memoria? Cic. de Or. 1, 5, 18; Quint. 11, 2, 1; cf.: thesauri argumentorum, Cic. Part. Or. 31, 109: suppeditat nobis Atticus noster de thesauris suis quos et quantos viros, id. Fin. 2, 21, 67: thesauros oportet esse non libros, Plin. praef. 17; cf.: mihi quoties aliquid abditum quaero, ille thesaurus est, a literary storehouse, Plin. Ep. 1, 22, 2.—

III. The title of a Greek play by Philemon, upon which Plautus founded the Trinummus, Plaut. Trin. prol. 18.