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cĭcer, ĕris, n., the chickpea: Cicer Arietinum, Linn. (used only in sing. acc. to Varr. L. L. 8, 25, 115; 9, 39, 142; 10, 3, 174); Col. 2, 10, 19; Plin. 18, 12, 32, § 124 sq.; Pall. Mart. 4; Plaut. Bacch. 4, 5, 7; Hor. S. 1, 6, 115; 2, 3, 182; id. A. P. 249; Mart. 1, 104; Pers. 5, 177; Petr. 14, 3.

cĭcĕra, ae, f., pulse similar to the chickpea, chickling-vetch: Lathyrus cicera, Linn.; Col. 2, 11, 1; 2, 11, 12; Pall. Mart. 6.

cĭcercŭla, ae, f. dim. [cicera; al. cicer; v. Plin. 18, 12, 32, § 124], a kind of small chickpea, Col. 2, 10, 19; Plin. 18, 12, 32, § 124; 18, 18, 73, § 304; 22, 25, 72, § 148; Pall. Jan. 5; id. Febr. 4.

cĭcercŭlum, i, n., an African species of the pigment sinopis, Plin. 35, 6, 13, § 32.

Cĭcĕro, ōnis, m., = Κικέρων, a Roman cognomen in the gens Tullia.

  1. I. M. Tullius Cicero, the greatest of the Roman orators and writers; born on the 3d of January, 106 B.C. (648 A.U.C.), at Arpinum (hence Arpinae chartae, Mart. 10, 19, 17); assassinated, at the age of sixty-three years, by the soldiers of Antonius, 43 B.C. (711 A.U.C.): ille se profecisse sciat, cui Cicero valde placebit, Quint. 10, 1, 112; Juv. 10, 114 al.
    Hence,
    1. B. Cĭcĕrōnĭānus, a, um, adj., Ciceronian: simplicitas, Plin. praef. § 22: mensa, id. 13, 16, 30, § 102: aquae, in the villa of Cicero, at Puteoli, medicinal to the eyes, id. 31, 2, 3, § 6.
      Subst.: Ciceronianus es, non Christianus, i. e. a follower of Cicero, Hier. Ep. 22, n. 30.
  2. II. Q. Tullius Cicero, the brother of I., whose work, De petitione consulatūs, is yet extant.

Cĭcĕrŏmastix, īgis, m. (the scourge of Cicero, a word formed after the Gr. Ὀμηρομάστιξ), a lampoon of Largius Licinius against Cicero, Gell. 17, 1, 1.