noun

pūbes

gen. pūbis · gender feminine · decl. 3rd

(nom. pubis, Prud. Cath. 7, 162), , 1. pubes

the signs of manhood; the hair which appears on the body at the age of puberty

the signs of manhood, i. e. the hair which appears on the body at the age of puberty, Gr. ἥβη.

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Lit.: si inguen jam pube contegitur, Cels. 7, 19: capillus et pubes, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 58.—

by extension

The hair •

The hair in gen.: ciliorum, Mart. Cap. 2, § 132.—

The private parts

The private parts, Verg. A. 3, 427; Ov. Am. 3, 12, 22; Plin. 11, 37, 83, § 208; 28, 15, 60, § 215; App. M. 10, p. 254, 3.—

grown-up males; youth; young men poetic •

Collect., grown-up males, youth, young men (class.): omnem Italiae pubem, Cic. Mil. 23, 61; Verg. A. 5, 573: robora pubis Lecta, id. ib. 8, 518: Romana, Liv. 1, 9; Tac. A. 6, 1; id. H. 2, 47; Sil. 1, 667.—Poet., transf., of bullocks, Verg. G. 3, 174.—

men; people; population ••

In gen., men, people, population: pube praesenti, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 124; Cat. 64, 4; 268; 68, 101: Dardana, Verg. A. 7, 219: captiva, Hor. C. 3, 5, 18: Romana, id. ib. 4, 4, 46 al.—

fulness; ripeness figuratively •

Trop., fulness, ripeness: pube agri variorum seminum laeti, Amm. 24, 5, 1.

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