adulter

1.

ăd-ulter, ĕri, m., and ădultĕra, ae, f. [alter, acc. to Fest.: adulter et adultera dicuntur, quia et ille ad alteram et haec ad alterum se conferunt, p. 22 Müll.], orig. one who approaches another ( from unlawful or criminal love ), an adulterer or adulteress (as an adj. also, but only in the poets).

I.

Prop.:

quis ganeo, quis nepos, quis adulter, quae mulier infamis, etc.,

Cic. Cat. 2, 4:

sororis adulter Clodius,

id. Sest. 39; so id. Fin. 2, 9; Ov. H. 20, 8; Tac. A. 3, 24; Vulg. Deut. 22, 22:

adultera,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 25; Ov. M. 10, 347; Quint. 5, 10, 104; Suet. Calig. 24; Vulg. Deut. 22, 22;

and with mulier: via mulieris adulterae,

ib. Prov. 30, 20; ib. Ezech. 16, 32.—Also of animals:

adulter,

Grat. Cyneg. 164; Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 304:

adultera,

Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 43.— Poet. in gen. of unlawful love, without the access. idea of adultery, a paramour:

Danaën munierant satis nocturnis ab adulteris,

Hor. C. 3, 16, 1 sq.; so id. ib. 1, 36, 19; Ov. Ib. 338.—

II.

Adulter solidorum, i. e. monetae, a counterfeiter or adulterator of coin, Const. 5, Cod. Th.—

III.

The offspring of unlawful love: nothus, a bastard (eccl.):

adulteri et non filii estis,

Vulg. Heb. 12, 8.

2.

ădulter, -tĕra, -tĕrum, adj. (Rudd. I. p. 51, n. 36), for adulterinus, adulterous, unchaste:

crines,

finely-curled hair, like that of a full-dressed paramour, Hor. C. 1, 15, 19:

mens,

that thinks only of illicit love, Ov. Am. 3, 4, 5:

clavis,

a key to the chamber of a courtesan, id. A. A. 3, 643.—

II.

Transf., counterfeit, false: imitatio solidi, Cod. Th. 9, 22, 1.