Macer

1.

măcer, cra, crum, adj. [Sanscr. root mak, to crush; Gr. massô, knead; mageus, baker; Germ. mager], lean, meagre.

A.

Lit., of living beings (most freq. of animals):

taurus, opp. pinguis,

Verg. E. 3, 100:

boves,

Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 12; Juv. 14, 146:

turdi,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 72:

mustela,

id. Ep. 1, 7, 33:

ostreae inuberes et macrae,

Gell. 20, 8; Quint. 6, 3, 58.—Of parts of the body:

in macerrimis corporis partibus,

Sen. Ep. 78, 8.—Humorously of a person:

valeat res ludicra si me Palma negata macrum donata reducit opimum,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 181:

nec pharetris Veneris macer est,

Juv. 6, 138.—

B.

Of inanimate things, thin, poor, barren: solum exile et macrum, * Cic. Agr. 2, 5, 67:

ager macrior,

Varr. R. R. 1, 24, 2:

macerrimi agri,

Col. 11, 2, 7:

stirpes,

id. 3, 10, 3:

vineae,

id. 8, 1, 2:

libellus,

meagre, thin, Mart. 2, 6, 10:

ut dignus venias hederis et imagine macra,

Juv. 7, 29.

2.

Măcer, cri, m., a Roman surname.

1.

C. Licinius Macer, an historian, Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 7; id. Brut. 67, 238; Liv. 4, 7, 12. —

2.

Aemilius Macer, a poet and a friend of Virgil and Ovid, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 44; v. Aemilius.