Torus, tori, m g. Plin. A bed. It was sometime made wyth herbes wounden togither.Pellex toti regij. Sen. The kings paramour.Socia tori.Ouid.A wife.Consors tori.Ouid.An husband or wife. Altus torus. Vir. Afper torus signis eburnis. St. A bedsted of Iuorie wrought with Images.Cælebs torus. Sen. An vnmaried persons bed.Festus torus.Stat.A festiual bed.Geniales tori.Virg.Beds vsed as tables to sit at with great cheare.Illiciti tori. Lucan. Vnlawful lying with women.Mollis torus.Ouid.Obscœnus.Ouid.An vnchast best.Plumeus.Ouid.A fetherbed.Pudici tori. Sen. Purpureus torus.Ouid.A bedde haning a purple counterpoint.Quietus.Val. Flac A quiet bed to slespe in.Socialis.Ouid.A marriage bed. Et per metonymiam. A wife.Tyrius. Catul. A bed coucted with purple.Viduus.Ouid.A lone bed without a mayde lying in it. Conciliate iugales toros.Stat.To make marlages.Conductus torus. On. Lying with a woman procuted wythmoney.Viridante toro consederat herbæ.Virg.He was set downe on a greene banke made with turses.Contemerare torum alicuius.Ouid.To commit adnltery with ones wife.Pictis toris discumbere. Vir. Extruere toros.Virg.To prepare beds to cate vpon.Legitimi tori fallere iura.Ouid.To be false in the league of matrimonie, to breake the bonds of wedlocke.Fouere torum.Ouid.To be warme in his bed.Iacêre in toro.Ouid.Incumbere toro. Vir. To lie vpon.Insidere toro.Ouid.To sit vpon.Ponere se toro. Oui. To lie downe in his bed.Premere torum.Ouid.Promissus mihi torus.Ouid.Mariage promiscd me.Illicitos toros & stupra quærere. Sen. Seruans torum casta fide. Sen. Being faithfnl and true in mariage.Sternere torum.Ouid. Vestiti tori gramine. Ouid.Violare toros alicuius. Sen. To commit adulterie with ones wife. Tori.Virg.The brawnes of the armes & legges: the sleshe mirt with sinewes and gristles.Lacertorum tori. Ci. Arduos toros tollit taurus.Senec.The Bull setteth vp hys thicke and fleshy necke.-leo comantes Excutiens ceruice toros. Vi. The Lyon shaking his necke with a thicke mane or long haire.Tori venarum. Cels. Thicke swellings in vaines.Tori in vitibus. Col. Riparum tori. Vir.
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tŏres, is, m., = torques, a chain: aureus, Serv. ap. Charis. p. 118 P.
tŏrus, i, m. (also tŏrum, i, n., Varr. ap. Non. 11, 14; Lact. 6, 23, 15) [for storus; root ster-, stra-, of sterno, stramen; Gr. store/nnumi, to spread, scatter], prop., a round, swelling, or bulging place, an elevation, protuberance, prominence; hence, I.A knot, bulge: (funis) Cato, R. R. 135, 4: funiculorum, Col. 11, 3, 6; cf.: vitis toris ad arborem religetur, id. 5, 6, 25: firmi vitis, id. Arb. 16, 4.—II.The muscular or fleshy part, the muscle, brawn of animal bodies (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose): o lacertorum tori! Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 9, 22; Ov. M. 2, 854; 9, 82; 12, 402; 14, 283; 15, 230; id. H. 9, 60: leo gaudet comantes Excutiens cervice toros, Verg. A. 12, 7: luxuriatque toris animosum pectus, id. G. 3, 81; Plin. 18, 7, 18, 78; Sen. Hippol. 1042; Val. Fl. 4, 245; Tac. Or. 21: venarum tori,
varicose dilatations of the veins
, Cels. 7, 18 fin. —B.Transf., the bulge, thickness of trees: utile toros futuri draconis pasci, Plin. 17, 23, 35, 211; cf.: (asparagus) in toros striatur, id. 19, 8, 42, 146; App. Flor. p. 363, 31.—III.A raised ornament, a knot, on a garland; trop., of language: isque (stilus mediocris) uno tenore fluit, aut addit aliquos, ut in coronā, toros omnemque orationem ornamentis modicis verborum sententiarumque distinguit, Cic. Or. 6, 21.— IV.A bolster, cushion, so named from its protuberances; hence, a couch, sofa, bed (mostly poet.; syn.: stratum, lectus): antiquis torus e stramento erat, qualiter etiam nunc in castris, Plin. 8, 48, 73, 193: viridante toro consederat herbae, Verg. A. 5, 388; cf.: praebuit herba torum, Ov. H. 5, 14; id. M. 8, 655: datque torum caespes, id. ib. 10, 556: gramine vestitis accubuere toris, id. F. 1, 402: silvestrem montana torum cum sterneret uxor Frondibus, Juv. 6, 5: discumbere toris, Ov. M. 8, 565.—So of a sofa: toro sic orsus ab alto, Verg. A. 2, 2; Ov. M. 12, 579.—Of a bed: ambierantque torum, Ov. M. 7, 332: concutiuntque torum de molli fluminis ulvā Impositum lecto, id. ib. 8, 655: ebeno sublimis in atrā, id. ib. 11, 610; Suet. Aug. 73. — Of a corpse-bed, Ov. M. 9, 503; id. F. 6, 668: membra toro defleta reponunt, Verg. A. 6, 220.—Of a bridalbed, Ov. M. 6, 431: (lectica) sive illa toro resupina feretur, Ov. A. A. 1, 487; cf. Becker, Gallus, 2, p. 240 (2d ed.).—B.Transf., like thalamus, as a designation for marriage: Deucalion ... Cum consorte tori,
with his consort
,
spouse
, Ov. M. 1, 319; cf.: socia tori, id. ib. 1, 620; so id. ib. 7, 91; 7, 332; id. F. 3, 511; id. P. 3, 3, 50; id. H. 2, 41: genialis, Tac. A. 15, 37; Val. Max. 2, 6, 14: obscenus, i. e.
illicit connection
, Ov. Tr. 2, 378; cf. illiciti (with stupra), Sen. Hippol. 97: receptus in torum, Plin. 34, 2, 6, 12.—Hence, also, for a mistress: torum donare alicui, Plin. 35, 10, 36, 87.— V.An elevation, bank of earth: riparum, Verg. A. 6, 674; Stat. Th. 4, 819: pulvinorum, Plin. 19, 4, 20, 60; 22, 22, 34, 76.— VI. In architecture, a large, round moulding at the base of a column, a torus, Vitr. 3, 3, 8.