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LNS

caesariēs, caesariēī

kindr. with Sanscr. kesa, coma, caesaries, Bopp, Gloss. p. 85, a

noun (f., 5^th declension)

a dark, head of hair, the hair
the hair of dogs
the hair of the beard

Abbreviations

caesaries, ēi, f. kindr. with Sanscr. kēsa, coma, caesaries, Bopp, Gloss. p. 85, a, a dark (acc. to Rom. taste, beautiful) head of hair, the hair (mostly poet.; only sing.). Of men (so most freq.), Plaut. Mil. 1, 2, 64: ipsa decoram Caesariem nato genitrix afflarat, Verg. A. 1, 590: nitida, id. G. 4, 337: flava, *Juv. 13, 165: pectes caesariem, *Hor. C. 1, 15, 14: umeros tegens, Ov. M. 13, 914: terrifica, id. ib. 1, 180: horrida fieri, id. ib. 10, 139: horrifica, Luc. 2, 372 et saep.

—In prose: promissa, Liv. 28, 35, 6; Vulg. Num. 6, 5.

— Of women, Cat. 66, 8; Verg. G. 4, 337 Forbig. ad loc.; Ov. Am. 3, 1, 32; id. M. 4, 492.

—* Transf., the hair of dogs, Grat. Cyn. 272.

— Barbae, the hair of the beard (very rare), Ov M. 15, 656.