semifero
Dictionary entries
- Entry →semifer, semifera, semiferum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
half-wild; half-monster;
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.)
Examples
- M
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...coloniet Magnetes equis, Minyae gens cognita remis. 385illic semiferos Ixionidas Centaurosfeta Pelethroniis nubes effudit in antris:aspera..." - L
Phoenissae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Illuc ire morituro placet, Ubi sedit alta rupe semifero dolos Sphinx ore nectens: dirige huc gressus pedum..." 
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...Iuppiter oris progenuit viridem Myracen Tibisenaque iuxta ostia, semifero--dignum si credere--captus corpore, nec nymphae geminos exhorruit..."- P
Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...frons hominem praefert, in pristim desinit alvus, spumea semifero sub pectore murmurat unda. Tot lecti proceres ter denis..." - P
Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...abstulit Hylonome, qua nulla decentior inter semiferos altis habitavit femina silvis; haec et blanditiis et amando et amare..."