Capillus, capilli. Plin. Haire.Capillas in hœdis. Gell. Goates haire.Capillorum animalia. Plin. Liese.Capillorum defluuium vel profluuium.The falling of.Albescens capillus. Horat. Waring hoare or white.Asperi capilli. Horat. Rough: curled.Cæruleo capillo Agarhyrsi. Plin. Cani capilli.Ouid.Compositus capillus.Plaut.A set or trimmed bushe.Compti capilli.Cic.Finely kembed.Coronati capilli.Ouid. Demissi. Ouid.Long.Erecti. Iuuenal. Staring. Flaui. Ouid.Flexi. Iuuenal. Hirsuti. Ouid.Curled.Horrens capillus.Plin. iun.Rough without kemming.Horridus.Cic. Humens. Ouid.Moyst.Immissi per humerum vtrunq; capilli. Ou. Hanging downe.Impulsos capillos aura dat retro.Ouid.Incincti philyra capilli.Ouid.Trussed or tyed vp.Incompti.Ouid. Inculti. Ouid.Inflati.Ouid.Blowen.Inornati capilli collo pendent.Ouid.Intonsi. Horat. Intorti. Mart. Lacerati. Iuuenal. Madidi. Ouid.Molles. Horat. Neglecti. Ouid.Nigri. Horat. Nitentes. Horat. Nitidi. Horat. Odorati. Horat. Passus capillus.Terent.Hanging downe loose.Pexi capilli. Iuuenal. Positi sine lege capilli. Ouid.Præcincti flore capilli.Ouid.Hauing a garland.Promislus capillus.Liu.Long.Pulli capilli.Ouid. Purpureus capillus. Virg.Capilli rari & cedentes.Plin. iun.Rigidi.Ouid.Rudibus dare legem capillis.Senec.Rutili capilli. Scissi. Ouid.Secti.Ouid. Auro similes capilli. Ouid.Electro similes capilli.Ouid.Spersi per colla capilli.Ouid.Sparsi rore capilli.Ouid.Sufflauus capillus, Vide SVFFLAVVS.Vdi.Ouid. Virides. Ouid.Virtati.Ouid.Tied in a coyfe or phillet. Agitat aura capillos intonsos. Horat. The wind frattereth.Comere capillos.Ouid.Capillo conscindere mulierem.Terent.To teace her haire.Coronare capillos. Horat. To set on a gariand.Disijcere capillos.Ouid.To scatter.Ducere capillis aliquem. Tibul. To draw by the haire.Germinare capillum. Plin. To flie vpon him and pull him by the haire.Lacerare capillos.Ouid. Laniare. Ouid.Ornandis operosa capillis.Ouid.Cutious, or taking great paines. &c.Pectere capillos matutinos. Oui. To kembe in the morning.Petere capillos vnguibus.Ouid.To take by the heade.Resecare capillos.Ouid.To notre or poll.Resoluta capillos.Ouid.Hauing her haire loose.Rigent capilli metu.Ouid.Stand or stare.Spargere humeium capillis. Horat. Turbare capillos.Ouid.To disorder.Vincire capillos vitta.Senec.To tye vp. Capillus, pro cœsaric.Cic.A hushe of haire. Capillus, pro barba.Cic.A heard. Capillus caprarum.Macrob.
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căpillus, i, m. (căpillum, i, n., Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 97, acc to Non. p. 198, 20) [a dim. form, akin to caput and Gr. kefalh/; lit., adj. sc. crinis]. I.Lit., the hair of the head, the hair (while crinis is any hair). A. Collect. (hence, acc. to Varr, ap. Charis. p. 80 P. in his time used only in the sing.; but the plur is found once in Cic., and since the Aug. poets very freq.) capillus passus, prolixus, circum caput Rejectus neglegenter, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 49; cf. id. Phorm. 1, 2, 56: versipellis, Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 48: compositus (or -um, acc. to Non. l. l.), id. Most. 1, 3, 97; Ter Eun. 4, 3, 4 Ruhnk.; 5, 2, 21: compositus et delibutus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 135: horridus, id. Sest. 8, 19: promissus,
long hair
, Caes. B. G. 5, 14: longus barbaque promissa, Nep. Dat. 3, 1: horrens. Tac. G. 38: ornatus, Prop. 1, 2, 1: tonsus, Ov. M. 8, 151: niger, Hor. A. P. 37: albus, id. Epod. 17, 23: albescens, id. C. 3, 14, 25: fulvus, Ov. M. 12, 273 (opp. barba): virgines tondebant barbam et capillum patris, Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58: capillum et barbam promisisse, Liv. 6, 16, 4; Plin. 11, 39, 94, 231.—B.A hair (sing. very rare): in imaginem capilli unius sat multorum, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 11, 29.—So plur. (freq.), Cic. Pis. 11, 25; Prop. 1, 15, 11; 3 (4), 6, 9; Hor. C. 1, 12, 41; 1, 29, 7; 2, 11, 15; 3, 20, 14; Quint. 8, 2, 7; 11, 3, 160 (in Ov. M. alone more than fifty times).—II.Transf.A.The hair of men gen., both of the head and beard: Dionysius cultros metuens tonsorios, candente carbone sibi adurebat capillum, Cic. Off. 2, 7, 25 Beier (cf. id. Tusc. 5, 20, 58: ut barbam et capillum sibi adurerent): ex barbā capillos detonsos neglegimus, Sen. Ep. 92, 34; Suet. Ner. 1.—B.The hair of animals: cuniculi, Cat. 25, 1: apum, Col. 9, 10, 1; Pall. Jun. 7, 7: haedi, Gell. 12, 1, 15: membranae, Pers. 3, 10; cf. Macr. S. 5, 11.—C.The threads or fibres of plants, Phn. 21, 6, 17, 33: capillus in rosā, id. 21, 18, 73, 121; hence, capillus Veneris, a plant, also called herba capillaris, maidenhair, App. Herb. 47.