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dens, dentis (gen. plur. usually dentium, but dentum is approved by Varr. L. L. 7, 38, 67), m. [root in Sanscr. dantas, Gr. ὀδούς, Goth. tunthus, Germ. Zahn, and Engl. tooth; cf. edo, Engl. eat], a tooth.

  1. I. Prop.: cui auro dentes juncti escunt, XII. Tab. 10, 9; Plin. 11, 37, 61, § 160 sq.; Cels. 8, 1; Cic. N. D. 2, 54; Isid. 11, 1, 52: primores, the front teeth, Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 68; also called adversi acuti, Cic. N. D. 2, 54: praecisores, Isid. 11, 1, 52; and in beasts: rapaces, Veg. Vet. 6, 1, 1: canini, the canine teeth, eye-teeth, Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 3; Cels. 8, 1; Plin. 11, 37, 61, § 160; in horses: columellares, Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 2; Plin. 11, 37, 61, § 160: maxillares, the jaw-teeth, grinders, Cels. 8, 1; called also genuini, Cic. l. l.; and molares, Isid. l. l. et saep.: dentes scalpere, Plin. 30, 4, 9, § 27: fricare, id. ib.: scariphare, id. 28, 11, 49, § 179; cf. id. 30, 3, 8, § 21: mobiles confirmare, id. 28, 11, 49, § 178; cf.: mobiles stabilire, id. 32, 7, 26, § 80: eximere, to extract, Cels. 6, 9; so, evellere, Plin. 30, 3, 8, § 25: extrahere, id. 32, 7, 26, § 79: excutere, Juv. 16, 10 et saep.: dens Indus, i. e. the elephant’s, Ov. M. 8, 288; hence for ivory, id. ib. 11, 167; also called dens Libycus, Prop. 2, 31, 12 (3, 29, 12 M.): Numida, Ov. P. 4, 9, 28; and Erythraeus, Mart. 13, 100.
      1. 2. Prov.
        1. a. Albis dentibus deridere aliquem, i. e. to laugh heartily at a person (so as to show one’s teeth), Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 48.
        2. b. Venire sub dentem, to fall into the jaws, under the clutches of, Petr. 58, 6.
        3. c. Dentem pro dente, tooth for tooth, Vulg. Matt. 5, 38.
    1. B. Meton. of things resembling a tooth, a tooth, point, spike, prong, tine, fluke, etc.: aratri, Col. 2, 4, 6; Verg. G. 2, 423 al.; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, § 135 Müll.: (irpicis) acc. to id. ib.: pectinis, id. ib.; Tib. 1, 9, 68: (clavi) id. 1, 2, 18: serrae, Plin. 16, 43, 83, § 227; Vitr. 1, 5; cf. Ov. M. 8, 246, and 6, 58; hence, in architecture, the walls indentated like the teeth of a saw, which connected the two main walls, Vitr. 6, 11: forcipis, id. 10, 2: (ancorae) Verg. A. 6, 3; for falx (vinitorum), the pruning-hook, id. G. 2, 406 et saep.
  2. II. Trop., the tooth of envy, envy, ill-will: more hominum invident, in conviviis rodunt, in circulis vellicant: non illo inimico sed hoc maledico dente carpunt, Cic. Balb. 26: invidus, Hor. Od. 4, 3, 16: ater, id. Epod. 6, 15.
    1. B. Of a destroying power: leti sub dentibus ipsis, Lucr. 1, 852; cf. of time: vitiataque dentibus aevi consumere omnia, Ov. M. 15, 235; and of water: aqua dentes habet, Petr. 42; of malice: malignitatis dentes vitare, Val. Max. 4, 7, extr. 2.

densābĭlis, e, adj. [denso], binding, astringent (late Lat.): cibus, Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 7: vaporatio, ib. 3, 3.

* densātĭo, ōnis, f. [denso], a thickening: prima, Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 82.

densātīvus, a, um, adj. [denso], binding, astringent (late Lat.): virtutis esse, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 37.

densē, adv., thickly, frequently, etc. v. densus fin.

Denselētae, ārum, m., a tribe of Northern Thrace, Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 40; Cic. Pis. 34, 84; the same called Dentheleti, Liv. 39, 53; 40, 22.

denseo, ēre, v. denso.

densĭtas, ātis, f. [densus], thickness, density (perh. not ante-Aug.).

  1. I. Lit.: limus spissatur et in densitatem coit, Plin. 35, 15, 51, § 178: chartae, id. 13, 12, 24, § 78: umoris, id. 11, 3, 2, § 6; Vulg. Isa. 9, 18 al.
  2. II. Trop.: sententiarum, Quint. 8, 5, 26: figurarum, id. 9, 2, 72.

denso, āvi, ātum, 1, and (less freq.) denseo, no perf., ētum, 2 (cf. Prisc. p. 837 P.; Charis. p. 233 ib. The MSS. often confound the two forms; densare appears to be critically certain in Liv. and Quint.; densere act. only denset, Verg. A. 11, 650; imp. densete, id. ib. 12, 264: densebant, Lucr. 5, 491: denserent, Tac. A. 2, 14; also active forms, Apul. Mund. p. 61, 13; Prud. Cath. 5, 53 al.; Sil. 4, 159; gerund, densendo, Lucr. 6, 482; pass. inf. parag. denserier, id. 1, 395; 647: densetur, Ov. M. 14, 369 al.: densentur, Hor. Od. 1, 28, 19; Verg. A. 7, 794, and other forms in Verg.; cf. Wagner, Verg. G. 1, 248.
See also addenso and condenso), v. a., to make thick, to press together, thicken (not in Cic. and Caes.).

  1. I. Lit.: Juppiter uvidus austris Densat, erant quae rara modo, et, quae densa, relaxat, Verg. G. 1, 419 (paraphrased: densatus et laxatus aer, Quint. 5, 9, 16); cf.: rarum pectine denset opus, Ov. F. 3, 820; Lucr. 1, 395: ignem, id. 1, 647; 656: omnia, id. 1, 662: agmina, Verg. A. 7, 794; cf. catervas, id. ib. 12, 264: ordines, Liv. 33, 8 fin.: scutis super capita densatis, Liv. 44, 9: funera, * Hor. Od. 1, 28, 19: glomerata corpus in unum densatur, Ov. M. 13, 605; cf.: (nubes) largos in imbres, Luc. 4, 76; Plin. 11, 41, 96, § 239: obtenta densantur nocte tenebrae, Verg. G. 1, 246; cf. Ov. M. 14, 369: hastilia, i. e. hurls thickly, Verg. A. 11, 650; cf. ictus, Tac. A. 2, 14: super acervum petrarum radices ejus densabuntur, Vulg. Job 8, 17.
    Absol.: (aestus) quasi densendo subtexit caerula nimbis, Lucr. 6, 482.
  2. II. Trop. of speech, to condense: instandum quibusdam in partibus et densanda oratio, Quint. 11, 3, 164: figuras, id. 9, 3, 101.

densus, a, um, adj. [kindred with δασύς, δαυλός (i. e. δασυλός); cf. Lat. dumus, old form dusmus, and dumetum], thick, dense, i. e. consisting of parts crowded together. opp. to rarus (on the contrary, crassus, thick, is opp. to thin, fluid; and spissus, close, compact, with the predominant idea of impenetrability; cf. also: angustus, artus, solidus—class. and freq., esp. in poets and historians; in Cic. very rare).

  1. I. Lit.
      1. 1. In space: ne dum variantia rerum Tanta queat densis rarisque ex ignibus esse, Lucr. 1, 654; cf. Verg. G. 1, 419 (for which densatus et laxatus aër, Quint. 5, 9, 16); and: (terra) Rara sit an supra morem si densa requiras … Densa magis Cereri, rarissima quaeque Lyaeo, Verg. G. 2, 227 sq.: densa et glutinosa terra, Col. praef. § 24: silva, poëta ap. Cic. Att. 12, 15; cf.: densiores silvae, Caes. B. G. 3, 29, 2: densissimae silvae, id. ib. 4, 38, 3: lucus densissimae opacitatis, Front. Strat. 1, 11, 10: denso corpore nubes, Lucr. 6, 361; cf.: denso agmine, id. 6, 100; so, agmen (sc. navium), Verg. A. 5, 834: densum umeris vulgus, Hor. Od. 2, 13, 32 et saep.: tunicae, Plin. 11, 23, 27, § 77: zmaragdi, id. 37, 5, 18, § 68: litus, sandy, Ov. M. 2, 576; cf. Verg. G. 2, 275: aequor, i. e. frozen. Luc. 2, 640: aër, Hor. Od. 2, 7, 14; cf. caelum, Cels. 1 praef.; 3, 22: nimbi, Ov. M. 1, 269: caligo, Verg. A. 12, 466; cf.: densissima nox, pitch-dark night, Ov. M. 15, 31: umbra, Catull. 65, 13; Hor. Od. 1, 7, 20 et saep.
        Without distinction, corresp. with crassus, Lucr. 6, 246 al.
        1. b. Poet. with abl., thickly set with, covered with, full of: loca silvestribus sepibus densa, poëta ap. Cic. N. D. 1, 42 fin.; cf.: specus virgis ac vimine, Ov. M. 3, 29: vallis piceis et acuta cupressu, id. ib. 3, 155: Thybris verticibus, id. F. 6, 502: ficus pomis, id. ib. 2, 253: corpora setis, id. M. 13, 846; cf. id. Am. 3, 1, 32: femina crinibus emptis, id. A. A. 3, 165: funale lampadibus, id. M. 12, 247: trames caligine opaca (coupled with obscurus), id. ib. 10, 54 et saep.
    1. B. Transf., of the parts themselves which are crowded together, thick, close, set close: superiorem partem collis densissimis castris (sc. trinis) compleverant, pitched very near together, Caes. B. G. 7, 46, 3: sepes, id. ib. 2, 22: frutices, Ov. M. 1, 122: ilex, id. F. 2, 165 et saep.: hostes, Verg. A. 2, 511: ministri, id. M. 2, 717: densior suboles, Verg. G. 3, 308: dens (pectinis), Tib. 1, 9, 68: comae, Ov. Am. 1, 14, 42; cf. pilae, id. F. 2, 348 et saep.
      Poet.: densorum turba malorum, Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 41.
      1. 2. In time, of things which take place in close succession, thick, frequent, continuous (mostly poet.): ictus, Verg. A. 5, 459; cf. plagae, Hor. Od. 3, 5, 31: Aquilo, strong, powerful, Verg. G. 3, 196: silentia, deep, profound, Val. Fl. 3, 604: amores, Verg. G. 4, 347: pericula, Ov. P. 4, 7, 15: usus, id. ib. 4, 3, 15: ictus, Amm. 15, 5, 31.
  2. II. Trop. of speech, condensed, concise: vox atrox in ira, et aspera ac densa, coarse, Quint. 11, 3, 63: tanta vis in eo (sc. Demosthene) tam densa omnia, etc., id. 10, 1, 76; cf. transf. to the writer himself: densior ille (sc. Demosthenes), hic (sc. Cicero) copiosior, ib. § 106: densus et brevis et semper instans sibi Thucydides, ib. § 73: (Euripides) sententiis densus, ib. § 68.
    Adv.: densē (very rare).
      1. 1. In space, thickly, closely, close together: caesae alni, Plin. 16, 37, 67, § 173: calcatum quam densissime, Vitr. 5, 12 med.: milites densius se commovebant, Amm. 24, 6, 8.
      2. 2. (Acc. to no. I. B. 2.) In time, frequently, rapidly, one after the other: quod in perpetuitate dicendi eluceat aliquando, idem apud alios densius, apud alios fortasse rarius, Cic. Or. 2, 7: nulla tamen subeunt mihi tempora densius istis, Ov. P. 1, 9, 11: replicatis quaestionibus dense, Amm. 29, 3 fin.