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latebra

latebra, a hiding-place, lurkinghole, covert, retreat

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

latebra , ae, f.: a hiding place; recess, lodgment, retreat, 12.389; usually in pl., latebrae, ārum, an ambuscade; covert, retreat; cavern, 3.424; recess, cavity, 2.38; the hatches of a ship, the hold, 10.657. (lateō)
lătē̆bra, ae, f. [lateo], a hiding-place, lurking-hole, covert, retreat (class.; most freq. in plur.; v. infra, II. B.).
  • I Lit.: (aurum) in latebris situm est, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 2 (609): itaque in totis aedibus tenebrae, latebrae, id. Poen. 4, 2, 13 (835): latebris ac silvis aut saltibus se eripere, Caes. B. G. 6, 43: Cappadociae latebris se occultare, Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 3, 7: aliquem in latebras impellere, id. Rab. Perd. 8, 22: at Scyllam caecis cohibet spelunca latebris, Verg. A. 3, 424: tum latebras animae, pectus mucrone recludit, the hidden seat of life, id. ib. 10, 601: solis defectus lunaeque latebrae, i.e. eclipses of the moon, Lucr. 5, 751. —In sing., Cic. Cael. 26, 62: extractus e latebra, Suet. Vit. 17; id. Ner. 48: bellorum, a place of refuge from war, Luc. 5, 743: teli, the weapon's lurking-place, i.e. the place where the arrow-head was sticking in his body, Verg. A. 12, 389.—
  • II Trop.
    • A In gen., a lurking-place, hidden recess, retreat: in latebras abscondas (stultitiam) pectore penitissumo, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 64 (64); Lucr. 1, 408: cum illa conjuratio ex latebris atque ex tenebris erupisset, Cic. Sest. 4, 9: latebras suspicionum peragrare, id. Cael. 22, 53; Quint. 12, 9, 3.—In sing.: adhibuit etiam latebram obscuritatis, Cic. Div. 2, 45, 111: in tabellae latebra, id. Fam. 3, 12, 1: scribendi, a secret mode of writing, a writing in cipher, Gell. 17, 9, 4.—
    • B In partic., a subterfuge, shift, cloak, pretence, feigned excuse (only in sing.): latebram haberes, Cic. Fin. 2, 33, 107: magnificam in latebram conjecisti, id. Div. 2, 20, 46: videant, ne quaeratur latebra perjurio, id. Off. 3, 29, 106: latebram dare vitiis, Ov. A. A. 3, 754.

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