thorn-brake
thorn-brake, -bush, -hedge:
1. vepres, is, m. (usu. in pl.: once f. in Lucr.): a tomb overgrown with t.-brakes and bushes, vestitum vepribus et dumetis sepulcrum, Cic Tusc. 5, 23, 64. Dimin.: veprēcŭla, id. Sest. 33, 72: (hence prov. vipera est in v., Pompon.). The adj. veprātĭcus, in Col. 7, 1, 1, is dub.; vel perticis, al.
2. veprētum (a thicket of thorns): of a t. hedge, Col. 4, 32, 1: of a t. bush, Pall. 1, 43, 3.
3. spīnētum: Virg. E. 2, 9: (either a t.-hedge or -brake).
4. sentĭcētum: Pl. Capt. 4, 2, 81.
1. vepres, is, m. (usu. in pl.: once f. in Lucr.): a tomb overgrown with t.-brakes and bushes, vestitum vepribus et dumetis sepulcrum, Cic Tusc. 5, 23, 64. Dimin.: veprēcŭla, id. Sest. 33, 72: (hence prov. vipera est in v., Pompon.). The adj. veprātĭcus, in Col. 7, 1, 1, is dub.; vel perticis, al.
2. veprētum (a thicket of thorns): of a t. hedge, Col. 4, 32, 1: of a t. bush, Pall. 1, 43, 3.
3. spīnētum: Virg. E. 2, 9: (either a t.-hedge or -brake).
4. sentĭcētum: Pl. Capt. 4, 2, 81.