miraculum

mīrācŭlum, i, n. [id.], a wonderful, strange, or marvellous thing, a wonder, marvel, miracle; wonderfulness, marvellousness (class.; syn.: prodigium, portentum): miracula, quae nunc digna admiratione dicimus, antiqui in rebus turpibus utebantur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 123 Müll.:

portenta et miracula philosophorum somniantium,

strange and wonderful imaginations, Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 18:

adiciunt miracula huic pugnae,

relate wonderful things, Liv. 2, 7:

esse miraculo,

to be wonderful, to excite wonder, id. 25, 8:

arbor digna miraculo,

singular, curious, Plin. 12, 1, 5, § 9:

in quae miracula, dixit, Verteris?

Ov. M. 3, 673:

omnia transformat sese in miracula rerum,

Verg. G. 4, 441:

miraculum magnitudinis,

extraordinary size, Liv. 25, 9, 14:

Euander... venerabilis vir miraculo litterarum, rei novae inter rudes artium homines,

id. 1, 7, 8:

ut mors ejus majori miraculo fuerit,

Suet. Oth. 12:

miracula septem,

the seven wonders of the world, Amm. 22, 15, 28.—

II.

Esp., in eccl. Lat., a miracle:

facientes pene incredibilia miracula,

Lact. 4, 21:

Dei,

id. 7, 9:

quibus miraculis plurimi allicientur,

id. 7, 17:

accidit quasi miraculum Deo,

Vulg. 1 Reg. 14, 15: nihil posse confingi miraculorum atque vitiorum, quod non ibi (in deorum genere) reperiatur, Aug. Civ. Dei, 4, 27.—Hence, adv.: mīrācŭlō = thaumastôs, wonderfully:

pictus,

Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 83.