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semivir

semivir, adj, a half-man, man who is half beast

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

sēmivir, virī, adj., m.: half man, effeminate, unmanly, 4.215.

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semivirumque Noun: masculine genitive plural, Noun: masculine accusative singular of semivir

See semivirumque in Morpho

sēmĭ-vĭr, vĭri, m. adj., a half-man, i. q. semihomo and semimas (not ante-Aug.).
  • I Lit.
    • A Half man and half beast, e. g. the Centaur Chiron. Ov. F. 5, 380; the Minotaur, id. A. A. 2, 24 (cf. semibos): Nessus, id. H. 9, 141.—
    • B An hermaphrodite, Ov. M. 4, 386; Plin. 11, 49, 110, § 263.—
  • II Transf., emasculated.
    • A Lit., of a priest of Cybele (cf. semimas), Juv. 6, 513: semiviri chori, Sil. 17, 20: formosum adulescentem semivirum reddidit, Lact. 1, 17, 7. —
    • B Trop., unmanly, womanish, effeminate: et nunc ille Paris cum semiviro comitatu, Verg. A. 4, 215: Phryx, id. ib. 12, 99; Lact. 1, 10, 9; Stat. Ach. 2, 363.—So esp. of debauchees: qui tam atrocem caedem pertinere ad illos semiviros crederent (for which, just before: molles and obsceni viri), Liv. 33, 28, 7: impure ac semivir, Luc. 8, 552.

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