teres

tĕrĕs, ĕtis, adj. [tero; cf. Gr. terên, tender], rounded off, rounded, well-turned, round, smooth, etc.:

teres est in longitudine rotundatum, quales asseres natura ministrat,

Fest. p. 363 Müll. (class.; syn. rotundus).

I.

Lit.:

stipites,

Caes. B. G. 7, 73:

palus,

Col. 4, 33, 4:

trunci arborum,

Verg. A. 6, 207:

oliva,

id. E. 8, 16:

virga,

Ov. M. 2, 135:

fusus,

id. ib. 6, 22:

hastile,

Liv. 21, 8, 10: mucro, Verg. A. 7, 665:

lapillus,

Ov. M. 10, 260:

(fundae) habena,

Verg. A. 11, 579.—Of parts of the body:

cervix,

round, slender, Lucr. 1, 35, Verg. A. 8, 633; so,

collum,

Ov. M. 10, 113:

brachiolum,

Cat. 61, 181. surae, Hor. C. 2, 4, 21, Ov. M. 11, 80:

membra,

Suet. Caes. 45:

digiti,

Ov. A. A. 1, 622, hence, of the form:

puer,

Hor. Epod. 11, 28.—Of other objects:

plagae,

tightly twisted, firmly woven, Hor. C. 1, 1, 28 strophium, Cat. 64, 65:

zona,

Ov. F. 2, 320:

gemma,

Verg. A. 5, 313:

iaspis, Claud Rapt. Pros. 2, 40: catena,

Luc. 3, 565:

filum,

Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 80:

mitra,

Claud. in Eutr. 2, 185: coma, curling, curly, Varr. ap Non. 328, 12.—

II.

Trop., in gen., smooth, polished, elegani:

(sapiens) teres atque rotundus,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 86, imitated by Aus. Idyll. 16, 4:

Atticorum aures teretes et religiosae,

Cic. Or. 9, 27:

teretes aures intellegensque judicium,

id. Opt. Gen. 4, 11:

vox in disputationibus,

smooth, without impediment, Quint. 11, 3, 64:

oratio plena, sed tamen teres,

rounded off, polished, Cic. de Or. 3, 52, 199:

Ciceroni mollius teretiusque visum est, fretu scribere quam freto,

Gell. 13, 20, 15.— Sup. and adv. seem not to occur.