Nere: next to: harde by: not far of, vt vicinum malum. Plaut. Vicina & finitima rethoricæ dialectica. Cice. Logicke nigh in fashion and muche like to Rhetorik. Iurgia vicina. Hor. Mala sunt vicina bonis. Oui. Oppidum vicinum. Hor, Partus vicinus. Stat. Pecoris vicini contagia. Virg. Terra vicina mihi. Ouid. Villa vicina. Hor. Vrbes vicinæ. Virg. Cities nigh about vs. Vicina ad pariendum. Cicer. Neere hir tyme of trauaile. Vicinus illi. Plin. Very like to him.

I. Lit.

A. Adj. (mostly poet.; cf.: contiguus, finitimus): taberna, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 24: silva, id. C. 3, 29, 39: oppidum, id. Epod. 5, 44: urbes, id. A. P. 66; Verg. G. 1, 510: sedes astris, id. A. 5, 759: caelo Olympum, Tib. 4, 1, 131: heu quam vicina est ultima terra mihi! Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 52: bellum, Liv. 1, 14, 6.—Poet.: jurgia, i.e. of neighbors, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 171.—With gen.: ora vicina perusti aetheris, Luc. 9, 432.—Comp.: ni convexa foret (terra), parti vicinior esset, Ov. F. 6, 275.—

B. Substt.

1. vīcīnus, i, m., a neighbor (the predom. signif. of the word): Eutychus Tuus ... vicinus proximus, Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 7; so, proximus, Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 21; Dig. 50, 15, 4: ceteri finitimi ac vicini, Cic. Sull. 20, 58: vel tribules vel vicinos meos, id. Rosc. Am. 16, 47: si te interioribus vicinis tuis anteponis, id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, 7: bonus sane vicinus, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 132: vicine Palaemon, Verg. E. 3, 53.—

b. Transf., of time, a contemporary: Tertullianus vicinus eorum temporum, Hier. Script. Eccl. Luc.—

2. vīcīna, ae, f., a neighbor: ego huc transeo in proximum ad meam vicinam, Plaut. Cas. 2, 1, 2; 3, 3, 16; Ter. And. 1, 1, 78; id. Hec. 4, 4, 98; Quint. 5, 11, 28; Hor. C. 3, 19, 24.—With gen.: Fides in Capitolio vicina Jovis, Cic. Off. 3, 29, 104: anus vicina loci, Ov. F. 6, 399.—

3. vīcīnum, i, n., a neighboring place, the neighborhood, vicinity (mostly post-Aug.): stellae in vicino terrae, Plin. 2, 16, 13, 68; so, in vicino, id. 6, 26, 30, 122; Cels. 2, 6 fin.; Sen. Brev. Vit. 15, 3: ex (e) vicino, Col. 7, 2, 4; Plin. 23, 8, 75, 145.—Plur.: amnis rigans vicina, Plin. 6, 18, 22, 65; Ov. M. 1, 573.—With gen.: in Syriae vicina pervenire, Plin. 16, 32, 59, 135.—

II. Trop., nearly resembling in quality or nature, like, similar, kindred, allied (class.): dialecticorum scientia vicina et finitima eloquentiae, Cic. Or. 32, 113: vicina praedictae, sed amplior virtus, Quint. 8, 3, 83: in his rebus, quibus nomina sua sunt, vicinis potius uti, id. 8, 6, 35: vicina virtutibus vitia, id. 8, 3, 7: quod est u(poptw/sei vicinum, id. 9, 2, 58: odor croco vicinus est, Plin. 21, 9, 29, 53; cf. id. 21, 18, 69, 115: cui vicinum est, non negare quod obicitur, Quint. 6, 3, 81.—Comp.: ferrum molle plumboque vicinius, Plin. 34, 14, 41, 143.—

b. Absol.: non ex eodem sed ex diverso vicinum accipitur, Quint. 9, 3, 68: multum ab amethysto distat hyacinthos, tamen e vicino descendens, Plin. 37, 9, 41, 125 (al. ab vicino tamen colore descendens).—Hence, adv.: vīcīnē, in the neighborhood, near by (late Lat.): (fluvius) quantum crescit aquis, pisces vicinius offert, nearer by, Ven. Carm. 3, 12, 11: vicinissime frui, Aug. Doctr. Chr. 1, 33 fin.