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lēgĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj. [lex-fero], lawgiving (poet.).
- I. Adj.: Minos, Ov. Am. 3, 10, 41: legifera Ceres (as the foundress of the social life of mankind), Verg. A. 4, 58.
- II. Subst.: lēgĭfer, ĕri, m., a law-giver, applied to Moses, Lact. 4, 17, 7; Tert. Apol. 19 fin.; Prud. στεφ. 3, 363; Vulg. Isa. 33, 22.