impubes

impūbes ( inp- ), ĕris, and (more freq., but not in Cic. or Cæs.) impūbis, is (form -es, Cic. Cat. 4, 6, 13; Caes. B. G. 6, 21; Val. Max. 6, 9, 9; Suet. Dom. 10; Ov. F. 2, 239;

form -is,

Hor. Epod. 5, 13; id. C. 2, 9, 15; Tac. H. 3, 25; 4, 14; Ov. M. 3, 417; 9, 416; Lucr. 5, 673; Liv. 9, 14, 11; 2, 13, 10; Verg. A. 9, 751; 7, 382; Plin. 23, 7, 64, § 130; Suet. Claud. 43 al.), adj. [2. in-pubes], not having attained to manhood, below the age of puberty, under age, youthful, beardless:

filium ejus impuberem in carcere necatum esse dixit,

Cic. Cat. 4, 6, 13:

qui de servis liberisque omnibus ad impuberes supplicium sumit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 14 fin.; Suet. Claud. 27; id. Ner. 35; id. Dom. 10:

puer,

Ov. F. 2, 239:

comitemque impubis luli,

Verg. A. 5, 546:

nec impubem parentes Troïlon Flevere semper,

Hor. C. 2, 9, 15:

capillus impubium impositus,

Plin. 28, 4, 9, § 41.— Esp. subst.: impūbes, is, com.:

productis omnibus elegisse impubes dicitur,

Liv. 2, 13, 10.—Freq. as leg. t. t., a person under years of discretion:

impuberes quidem in tutela esse omnium civitatum jure contingit,

Gai. Inst. 1, 189:

an impubes rem alienam amovendo furtum faciat,

id. ib. 3, 208.—

B.

Transf., of things:

corpus,

Hor. Epod. 5, 13:

malae,

Verg. A. 9, 751:

anni,

Ov. M. 9, 417.—

II.

In partic., celibate, virgin, chaste:

qui diutissime impuberes permanserunt, maximam inter suos ferunt laudem,

Caes. B. G. 6, 21, 4.