sylvester

silvestris ( silvester, Plin. 14, 16, 19, § 110; Col. 1, praef. 25; Sen. Hippol. 460; also written sylv- ), e (collat. form, dat. SILVANO SILVESTRO, Inscr. Orell. 4990; gen. plur. sync. silvestrum, Att. Trag. Rel. v. 256 Rib.), adj. [silva].

I.

Of or belonging to a wood or forest, overgrown with woods, wooded, woody (class.;

syn. saltuosus): collis silvestris,

Caes. B. G. 2, 18:

mons,

Varr. R. R. 1, 12, 1; Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132:

locus,

id. Lael. 19, 68; Caes. B. G. 5, 19; 6, 34; 7, 35; Liv. 27, 26, 7:

saltus,

Curt. 4, 3, 21:

antra,

Ov. M. 13, 47:

ager,

Col. 11, 2, 52; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 186:

via (with inculta),

Cic. Brut. 74, 259:

silvestris et montuosus situs (opp. campestris),

Col. 7, 2, 3:

silvestria saecla ferarum,

Lucr. 5, 965; cf. id. 5, 1410:

belua,

i. e. a she-wolf, Cic. Rep. 2, 2, 4;

hence also: uber,

i. e. of a she-wolf, Prop. 3, 9 (4, 8), 51:

homines,

living in woods, foresters, Hor. A. P. 391:

numen, sphinx,

Plin. 36, 12, 17, § 77 (Jahn reads de quā siluere):

bellum,

Lucr. 5, 1244:

silvestri nata sub umbrā fraga,

Ov. M. 13, 815: silvestria virgulta, i. e. foresttrees (opp. prolem olivae), Verg. G. 2, 2.— Subst.: silvestrĭa, ĭum, woodlands, forest:

an culta ex silvestribus facere potui,

Liv. 38, 49, 7; Plin. 25, 7, 33, § 70.—

II.

Transf.

A.

Of plants and animals, growing wild, wild:

tauri,

Plin. 8, 21, 30, § 74:

arietes (with feri),

Col. 7, 2, 4:

gallinae,

id. 7, 8, 12:

arbor,

Verg. E. 3, 70:

arbores silvestres ac ferae,

Col. 3, 1, 2:

pruni,

id. 2, 2, 20:

faba,

Plin. 18, 12, 30, § 121:

mel,

id. 11, 16, 15, § 41; Vulg. Matt. 3, 4:

cicer,

Plin. 22, 25, 72, § 148:

oliva,

Ov. M. 2, 681:

corna,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 57 et saep.— Comp.:

silvestriora omnia tardiora,

Plin. 16, 27, 50, § 116; 22, 25, 71, § 146.—

B.

In gen., for agrestis, sylvan, rural, pastoral ( poet. ):

Musa,

Lucr. 4, 589; Verg. E. 1, 2 (for which, agrestis, id. ib. 6, 8):

truculentus et silvester,

Sen. Hippol. 461.