macras
Dictionary entries
- Entry →macer, macra -macrum, macrior -or -us, macerrimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
thin (men, animals, plants), scraggy, lean, small, meager; thin (soil), poor;
acc. pl. (f.)
Examples
Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...aquis radensque Salerni 425tesca Siler nullasque uado qui Macra moratus alnos uicinae procurrit in aequora Lunae). longior educto..."Satura VII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...carmina cella, ut dignus uenias hederis et imagine macra. spes nulla ulterior; didicit iam diues auarus tantum admirari..."Liber III
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...oleas quod uiri capellarum, et anatis habeas orthopygium macrae, senemque Cynicum uincat osseus cunnus; cum te lucerna balneator..."