consanguineus

con-sanguĭnĕus, a, um ( gen. plur. consanguineūm, Lucr. 3, 73), adj., springing from the same blood, related by blood.

I.

In a restricted sense, of brothers and sisters, brotherly, sisterly (so mostly poet. ):

umbrae,

Ov. M. 8, 476:

turba,

id. H. 14, 121:

scelus,

Stat. Th. 11, 407:

angues,

i. e. born with her, kindred, id. ib. 11, 61:

acies,

Claud. in Rufin. 2, 237.—Of animals: arietes, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44 (Praetext. v. 21 Rib.). —Of abstract subjects:

caritas ( = benevolentia fraterna),

Val. Max. 5, 5, 3; cf.

scelus,

Stat. Th. 11, 407.— Subst.: consanguĭnĕ-us, i, m., a brother, Cic. Att. 2, 23, 3; and consanguĭnĕa, ae, f., a sister, Cat. 64, 118. —

II.

In a more gen. sense, related, kindred:

homines,

Caes. B. C. 1, 74:

Turnus,

Verg. A. 7, 366:

Roma,

Sil. 1, 608:

dextra,

id. 1, 655. —Esp. freq. as subst. plur.: consanguĭ-nĕi, ōrum, kindred, relations, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 77; Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 35; Caes. B. G. 1, 11; 1, 33; Suet. Caes. 81; id. Claud. 25.—General senses, related, kindred (so most freq. in prose and poetry), Lucr. 3, 73; 6, 1282; cf. Dig. 38, 16, 1.—

2.

Poet., transf.:

consanguineus Leti Sopor,

Verg. A. 6, 278 (in acc. with Hom. Il. x, 231: Upnos kasignêtos Thanatoio).—

* B.

Trop.:

res rustica proxima et quasi consanguinea sapientiae,

Col. 1, prooem. § 4.