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LNS

saepēs, saepis

(sēpēs, sēpis)

σάττω;, root svak, to make firm; Sanscr. sag, to cling; cf. σάττω; p for k, as in lupus

noun (f., 3^rd pure I-stem declension)

a hedge
enclosure

Abbreviations

saepes (sēp-), is (nom. saeps, Cic. acc. to Aus. Idyll. in Grammaticom. 12, 11; Val. Fl. 6, 537; but, saepes, Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 2; Verg. E. 1, 54; Col. 10, 374; Pall. 1, 34, 6; Claud. Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 56), f. root svak-, to make firm; Sanscr. sag, to cling; cf. σάττω; p for k, as in lupus. Prop., a hedge, fence; sing., besides the passages above cited, Pac. ap. Non. 179, 15; Verg. G. 1, 270; Col. 11, 3, 3 sq.; Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 101; Ov. H. 20, 144: viva saepis, Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 1: saepes ex agresti ligno, id. ib. 1, 14, 2.

—Plur., Poet. ap. Cic. N. D. 1, 42, 119; Caes. B. G. 2, 17; 2, 22; Verg. G. 2, 371; id. E. 8, 37; Ov. M. 1, 493.

— Meton., of any enclosure (poet.): scopulorum, Cic. poet. Div. 1, 7, 13: portarum, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 81.