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1. verres, is (collat. form of the nom. sing. verris, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 8), m. [Sanscr. root varsh-, to rain, wet; whence vrshabha, bull; cf. ἔρση, dew], a male swine, boar-pig (syn.: aper, porcus), Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 21; Col. 7, 9, 7; Hor. C. 3, 22, 7.
Transf., contemptuously, of a man, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 67.
2. Verres, is, m., the surname of the prœtor C. Cornelius, notorious for his bad government of Sicily; hence,
verrĭcŭlum, i, n. [verro], a drag-net, seine (more freq. called everriculum), Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 59 (but the true read., Val. Max. 4, 1, ext. 7, is everriculum).
1. verrīnus, a, um, adj. [1. verres], of a boar-pig, boar-, hog-, pork-: jecur, Plin. 28, 10, 42, § 152: fel, id. ib.: adeps, id. 28, 9, 37, § 140: sincipita, id. 8, 51, 77, § 209.
In a punning lusus verbb.: jus, v. 2, Verres, B.
2. Verrīnus, a, um, v. 2. Verres, B.
1. Verrĭus, a, um, v. 2, Verres, A.
2. Verrĭus Flaccus, a celebrated grammarian of the time of Augustus and Tiberius, Suet. Gram. 17.