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Cīnĕas, ae, m., = Κινέας, the friend of king Pyrrhus of Epirus, who counselled him to make peace with the Romans, he is said to have had a remarkably retentive memory, Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 59; id. Sen. 13, 43; id. Fam 9, 25, 1; Plin. 7, 24, 24, § 88; 14, 1, 3, § 12; Sen. Contr 1, prooem. p. 65 Bip.

* cĭnĕfactus, a, um, adj. [cinis-facio]: at nos horrifico cinefactum te prope busto … deflevimus, i. e. turned to ashes, Lucr. 3, 906, cf. Non. p. 93, 33 (Lachm. ad loc. makes the word = qui jam prope cineris colorem et adspectum nanctus est, but cf. Munro ad loc.).

cĭnĕrācĕus, a, um, adj. [cinis], similar to ashes, ashy terra, Plin. 17, 5, 4, § 33: color, ash-colored, id. 27, 7, 27, § 44.

‡ cĭnĕrārĭum, ii, v. cinerarius, II. B.

cĭnĕrārĭus, a, um, adj. [cinis], pertaining to ashes.

  1. I. As adj. very rare: fines, boundaries of land bordering upon graves, Auct. Limit. p 296 Goes.
  2. II. More freq. subst.
    1. A. cĭnĕrārĭus, ii, m., a servant who heated in glowing ashes the iron used in curling hair, a hair-curler, Varr. L. L, 5, § 129 Müll., Cat. 61, 138; Sen. Const. 14, 1; Acro ad Hor S. 1, 2, 98; Tert. ad Uxor. 2, 8.
    2. B. CINERARIVM, ii, n., in tombs, the receptacle for the ashes of the dead, Inscr. Orell. 4358; 4513 al.

cĭnĕresco, ĕre, v. inch. n. [id.], to turn to ashes (late Lat.), Tert. Apol. 40, Fulg. Myth. 2, 18; Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 1, 20.

cĭnĕrĕus, a, um, adj. [cinis], similar to ashes, ash-colored: color, Col. 2, 2, 16; Scrib. 23; Plin. 37, 10, 68, § 183 sq.: terra, id. 35, 16, 54, § 192 uva, id. 14, 3, 4, § 42.
Hence, subst.: cĭnĕrĕum, ĕi, n., a kind of salve, Scrib. Comp. 37; cf.: collyrium spodiacum a quibusdam cinereum dicitur, id. ib. 24 init.

* cinĕrĭcĭus (-tĭus), a, um, adj. [cinis], similar to ashes, like ashes: terra, Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 7.

cĭnĕrōsus, a, um, adj. [cinis], full of ashes: mortui, App. M. 4, p. 150, 27: canities, id. ib. 7, p. 299, 41.

cĭnis, ĕris, m. (in sing. fem., Lucr. 4, 926; Cat. 68, 90; 101, 4; Caesar, acc. to Non. p. 198, 11; Calvus ap. Non. l. l. and ap. Charis; p. 78 p; App. M. 9, 12, p. 222; Scrib. c. 226; 230; 232; 245, Ser. c. 44; Aus. Parent 27, 3; Inscr. Orell 4479; cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, p. 657; access. form: hoc cĭnus, Gloss. Labb.; Sicul. Flacc. p. 140, 17, Agrim. p. 308, 3; p. 308, 5; cf. Lachm. ad Lucr 2, p. 190, and a nom. cĭ-ner is mentioned by Prisc. 5, p. 688: 6, p. 707) [kindr with κόνις; cf. also naucus], ashes,

  1. I. In gen. (while favilla is usually the ashes that is light like dust, or is still glowing; cf.: corporis favillam ab reliquo separant cinere, Plin. 19, 1, 4, § 19: cinis e favillā et carbonibus ad calfaciendum triclinium illatis exstinctus et jam diu frigidus exarsit repente, Suet. Tib. 74), Lucr. 1, 872; cf. id. 1, 890, and 4, 927; Cato ap. Charis. p. 78 P.; Suet. Tib. 74; Col. 2, 15, 6; 11, 3, 28; 12, 22, 1; Hor. C. 4, 13, 28.
    1. B. From the use of ashes for scouring vessels, the proverb is derived: hujus sermo haut cinerem quaeritat, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 10.
  2. II. Esp.
    1. A. The ashes of a corpse that is burned; so very freq. in both numbers; in plur. esp. freq. in the poets and postAug. prose.
          1. (α) In sing.: cur hunc dolorem cineri ejus atque ossibus inussisti? Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 44, § 113: ex tuā calamitate cinere atque ossibus filii sui solacium reportare, id. ib. 2, 5, 49, § 128: dare poenas cineri atque ossibus clarissimi viri, id. Phil. 13, 10, 22: obsecravit per fratris sui mortui cinerem, id. Quint. 31, 97 (cf. in plur.: jura per patroni tui cineres, Quint. 9, 2, 95); Cat. 101, 4; Tib. 1, 3, 7; Verg. A. 3, 303; 4, 623; 10, 828; 11, 211; Hor. Epod. 17, 33; Ov. M. 7, 521; 12, 615; Sil. 8, 129.
            Poet. for death, or the person after death: Troja virūm et virtutum omnium acerba cinis, Cat. 68, 90: et cedo invidiae, dummodo absolvar cinis, i. e. after my death, Phaedr. 3, 9, 4: et mea cum mutuo fata querar cinere, Tib. 2, 6, 34: nunc non cinis ille poëtae Felix? Pers. 1, 36: post cinerem (after burning the corpse) cineres haustos ad pectora pressant, Ov. M. 8, 538.
            Figuratively: cineri nunc medicina datur, i. e. when it is too late, Prop. 2 (3), 14, 16.
          2. (β) In plur., Cat. 68, 98; Verg. A. 5, 55: expedit matris cineres opertos Fallere, Hor. C. 2, 8, 9; id. A. P. 471; Ov. M. 13, 426; Suet, Calig. 15; Quint. 7, 9, 5; 9, 2, 95; Inscr. Orell. 4834 al.
    2. B. The ruins of a city laid waste and reduced to ashes: cineres patriae, Verg. A. 10, 59: patriae cinis, Auct. Her. 4, 8, 12; cf. Ov. M. 2, 216.
    3. C. Trop., an emblem of destruction, ruin, annihilation: si argentum’st, omne id ut fiat cinis, Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 31: quicquid erat nactus praedae majoris, ubi omne Verterat in fumum et cinerem, i. e. had consumed, spent, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 39; cf. Tib. 1, 9, 12; Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 68.