tropicus, a, um, adj., = τροπικός. Lit., of or belonging to a turn or turning, tropical: Capricornus, i. e. where the sun turns back, Aus. Idyll. 16, 7; cf. id. Ecl. de Ratione Diei Anni, 2; Manil. 3, 614.

— Trop. * tropica, ōrum, n., changes, alterations: pecuniae cupiditas haec tropica instituit, Petr. 88.

— In the later rhet. lang., figurative, metaphorical, tropical (late Lat.): figura, Gell. 13, 24, 31: locutiones, Aug. contra Mendac. 10.

—Adv.: tropicē, figuratively: loqui maluit, Aug. Genes. ad Lit. 4, 9.