pubes

1.

pūbes and pūber (cf. Prisc. p. 707 P.; also pūbis, ĕris, Caes. ib.), ĕris, adj. [root pu-, to beget; in Sanscr. putras, son; pumans, man; cf.: puer, pūpa, putus, etc.], that is grown up, of ripe age, adult, pubescent.

I.

Lit. (class.):

pubes et puber qui generare potest: is incipit esse a quattuordecim annis: femina a duodecim viri potens, sive patiens, ut quidam putant,

Fest. p. 250 Müll.; Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 224:

filii,

Cic. Off. 1, 35, 129: priusquam pubes esset, Nep. Dion, 4, 4:

ad puberem aetatem,

Liv. 1, 3.—

B.

Subst.: pūbĕres, um, m., grown-up persons, adults, men (cf.:

adulescens, ephebus): omnes puberes armati convenire consuerunt,

Caes. B. G. 5, 56; id. B. C. 2, 13; 3, 9; Sall. J. 26, 3; 54, 6; Tac. A. 13, 39.— Sing. collect.:

omnem Italiae pubem commiserat,

Cic. Mil. 23, 61; Liv. 1, 9, 6; Suet. Ner. 43; Tac. H. 2, 47.— Rarely, of one person, a youth:

ne praejudicium fiat impuberi per puberis personam,

Dig. 37, 10, 3, § 8.—

II.

Transf., of plants, covered with soft down, downy, pubescent, ripe:

folia,

Verg. A. 12, 413:

uvae,

Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 4, 4 Mai.

2.

pūbes (nom. pubis, Prud. Cath. 7, 162), is, f. [1. pubes], the signs of manhood, i. e. the hair which appears on the body at the age of puberty, Gr. hêbê.

I.

Lit.:

si inguen jam pube contegitur,

Cels. 7, 19:

capillus et pubes,

Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 58.—

II.

Transf.

A.

The hair in gen.:

ciliorum,

Mart. Cap. 2, § 132.—

B.

The private parts, Verg. A. 3, 427; Ov. Am. 3, 12, 22; Plin. 11, 37, 83, § 208; 28, 15, 60, § 215; App. M. 10, p. 254, 3.—

C.

Collect., grown-up males, youth, young men (class.):

omnem Italiae pubem,

Cic. Mil. 23, 61; Verg. A. 5, 573:

robora pubis Lecta,

id. ib. 8, 518:

Romana,

Liv. 1, 9; Tac. A. 6, 1; id. H. 2, 47; Sil. 1, 667.— Poet., transf., of bullocks, Verg. G. 3, 174.—

2.

In gen., men, people, population:

pube praesenti,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 124; Cat. 64, 4; 268; 68, 101:

Dardana,

Verg. A. 7, 219:

captiva,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 18:

Romana,

id. ib. 4, 4, 46 al.—

III.

Trop., fulness, ripeness:

pube agri variorum seminum laeti,

Amm. 24, 5, 1.