boario
Dictionary entries
- Entry →boarius, boaria, boarium:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
of oxen/cattle; [forum boarium => cattle market at Rome];
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.)
Examples
Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...foro holitorio triumphum clamasse, et [in] foro boario bovem in tertiam contignationem sua sponte escendisse atque inde tumultu..."Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...posuerit, noscere haud absurdum reor. igitur a foro boario, ubi aereum tauri simulacrum aspicimus, quia id genus animalium..."
