ceu adv. ce + ve, as, like as, just as: genus omne natantum, ceu naufraga corpora, fluctus Proluit, like, V.: Dirus per urbes Afer Ceu flamma per taedas, etc., H.: ceu nubibus arcus iacit colores, V.

— Followed by haud aliter, V.

— by sic, V.: aliae turpes horrent, ceu Cum venit viator, as when, V.: lupi ceu raptores, V.: pars vertere terga, Ceu quondam petiere rates, just as, V.

—As if, as it were, just as if: per aperta volans, ceu liber habenis, Aequora, V.: ceu cetera nusquam Bella forent, V.