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vāra, ae, f.
- I. A wooden horse or trestle for spreading nets upon; hence, prov.: sequitur varam vibia, one evil follows the other, Aus. Idyll. 12 praef. monos.
- II. A forked pole for spreading nets upon, Luc. 4, 439; to support a bough, Col. 5, 9, 2.
1. vārus, a, um, adj. [perh. root kar, kvar; whence Sanscr. kakras, wheel; Lat. circus, curvus, and vārus, for cvarus; cf. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 412], bent, stretched, or grown inwards, or awry.
- I. Lit.: (canes) debent esse cruribus rectis et potius varis quam vatiis, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 4; hence of persons with legs bent inwards, knock-kneed (cf. valgus): hunc varum distortis cruribus; illum Balbutit scaurum pravis fultum male talis, Hor. S. 1, 3, 47 (cf. Orelli et Dillenb. ad loc.); Lucil. ap. Non. 26, 12; Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 54; Dig. 21, 1, 10 fin.: manus, i. e. bent, crooked, Ov. M. 9, 33: bracchia, Mart. 7, 32, 9; Stat. Th. 6, 850: cornua, Ov. M. 12, 382; id. Am. 1, 3, 24: talea, Col. 5, 9, 2.
- II. Trop., diverse, different (poet.); absol.: geminos, Horoscope, varo Producis genio, Pers. 6, 18.
With dat.: alterum (genus hominum) et huic varum et nihilo sapientius, different from this, Hor. S. 2, 3, 56.
2. vărus, i, m., an eruption on the face, a blotch, pimple, Gr. ἴονθος, Cels. 6, 5; Plin. 22, 25, 73, § 151; 23, 1, 14, § 19; 23, 4, 42, § 85; 23, 4, 45, § 89.