laureus

laurĕus, a, um, adj. [id.], of laurel, laurel-.

I.

Adj.:

vectes laurei,

Cato, R. R. 31:

folia,

id. ib. 76:

corona,

Liv. 23, 11:

in nitidā laurea serta comā,

Ov. Tr. 2, 172:

oleum,

laurel-oil, Plin. 20, 13, 51, § 137:

ramus,

id. 15, 30, 40, § 136:

ramulus,

Suet. Caes. 81:

pira,

i. e. that smell like laurel, Col. 12, 10:

cerasa,

grafted on laurel, Plin. 15, 25, 30, § 104:

nemus,

Mart. 10, 92, 11.—

II.

Subst.: laurĕa, ae, f.

A.

(Sc. arbor.) The laurel-tree:

laurea in puppi navis longae enata,

Liv. 32, 1:

tum spissa ramis laurea fervidos Excludet ictus,

Hor. C. 2, 15, 9:

factis modo laurea ramis annuit,

Ov. M. 1, 566:

ex Pannonia,

Plin. Pan. 8, 3.—

B.

(Sc. corona.) A laurel crown or garland, laurel branch, as the ornament of Apollo, of poets, of ancestral images, of generals enjoying a triumph, and of letters containing news of a victory:

te precor, o vates, assit tua laurea nobis,

Ov. R. Am. 75:

laureā donandus Apollinari,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 9:

cedant arma togae, concedat laurea linguae, Cic. poët. Off. 1, 22, 77: quam lauream cum tua laudatione conferam,

id. Fam. 15, 6, 1. Sometimes victorious generals, instead of a triumphal procession, contented themselves with carrying a laurel branch to the Capitol:

de Cattis Dacisque duplicem triumphum egit: de Sarmatis lauream modo Capitolino Jovi retulit,

Suet. Dom. 6:

urbem praetextatus et laurea coronatus intravit,

id. Tib. 17; id. Ner. 13; Plin. Pan. 8:

thyrsus enim vobis, gestata est laurea nobis,

Ov. P. 2, 5, 67:

bellorum laureas victori tradens,

Just. 14, 4, 17.—

2.

Trop., a victory, triumph:

primus in toga triumphum linguaeque lauream merite,

Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 117; cf.:

parite laudem et lauream,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 53.