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* calvĕo, ēre, v. n. [calvus], to be bald, Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 130.

calvor, 3, v. dep. a. (access. form cal-vo, ĕre, v. infra; calvio, Are, Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 720).

  1. I. To devise tricks, use artifice, attack one with artifice, to intrigue against, to deceive (except in Sallust, only ante-class. for the class. calumnior): SI. CALVITVR. PEDEMVE. STRVIT., Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Fest. s. v. struere, p. 313 Müll.; the same law is fragmentarily mentioned by Lucil. ap. Non. p. 7, 2, and Dig. 50, 16, 233.
  2. II. In gen., to deceive, delude: me calvitur suspitio, Pac. ap. Non. p. 7, 6 (Trag. Rel. v. 137 Rib.): calamitas arvas calvitur, Pac. ap. Non. p. 192, 32 (Trag. Rel. v. 396 Rib.); Plaut. Cas. 2, 2, 4: sed memet calvor, Att. ap. Non. p. 6, 33.
    Note: Pass. (cf. calumnior fin.): te vocis calvi similitudine, Pac. ap. Non. p. 6, 29; Sall. H. 3, 78 Dietsch, and Prisc. p. 883 P.

1. calvus, a, um, adj. [cf. O. H. Germ. chalo; Germ. kahl],

  1. I. bald, without hair (whether by nature or by shaving or shearing; rare; not in Lucr., Cic., Hor., or Verg.): raso capite calvus, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 306: senex, Petr. 27; Suet. Calig. 27: moechus, id. Caes. 51; Phaedr. 2, 2, 9; 5, 3, 1; 5, 6, 1.
      1. 2. Subst.: calva, ae, f., the scalp without hair, Liv. 23, 24, 12; Mart. 10, 83, 12; 12, 45, 12.
    1. B. Venus Calva, worshipped in a particular temple after the irruption of the Gauls (as it is pretended, because at that time the women cut off their hair for bowstrings), Lact. 1, 20, 7; Cypr. Idol. Van. 2, 10; Veg. Mil. 4, 9; cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 720.
  2. II. Transf. to plants: vinea a vite calva, Cato, R. R. 33, 3 (cf. Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 196, s. v. calvatus): nuces, with smooth shells, Cato, R. R. 8, 2 (quoted in Plin. 15, 22, 24, § 90, where in MSS. the var. lect. galbas prob. arose from a false orthography of a later time; cf. the letter B fin.): calvae restes, Mart. 12, 32, 20.
    Also,
    1. B. Subst.: calva, ae, f., a nut with a smooth shell, Petr. 66, 4.

2. Calvus, i, m., a cognomen of several persons, especially of the poet and orator C. Licinius; v. Licinius.