gĕmĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [id.]. I. Act., to double (class.; syn. duplico). A. Lit.: favos
, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 32: ructuosus spiritus, Cael. ap. Quint. 4, 2, 123: victoriae laetitiam
, Liv. 45, 13: semivocales
, Quint. 1, 7, 14: verba
, id. 9, 3, 28: decem vitae frater geminaverat annos
, i. e. had completed his twentieth year
, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 31: labor geminaverat aestum
, id. M. 5, 586: pericula
, Tib. 2, 3, 39: facinus
, to repeat
, Ov. M. 10, 471.—Absol.: geminabit (sc. pugnum s. plagam) nisi caves
, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 19.—In part. perf.: tum sole geminato, quod Tuditano et Aquillio consulibus evenerat, ctc.
, Cic. N. D. 2, 5, 14: verba
, id. Part. 6, 21; cf. littera
, Quint. 1, 7, 29; 1, 4, 11: victoria
, Liv. 1, 25, 11: luctus
, id. 40, 55: urbs
, id. 1, 13: onus
, Quint. 2, 3, 2: vulnus
, Ov. M. 12, 257: plausus
, Verg. G. 2, 509: consulatus
, repeated
, Tac. A. 1, 3: invidiam fieri geminati honoris
, Liv. 39, 39, 9: honor
, augmented
, Plin. Pan. 92, 1.— Poet.: quae postquam aspexit geminatus gaudia ductor Sidonius
, i. e. feeling double joy
, Sil. 10, 514.—B. Transf., to pair, join, or unite two things together: non ut Serpentes avibus geminentur, tigribus agni
, Hor. A. P. 13: geminari legionum castra prohibuit
, the encamping of two legions together
, Suet. Dom. 7; Stat. S. 1, 2, 239: non acuta Sic geminant Corybantes aera
, i. e. strike together
, Hor. C. 1, 16, 8.—In part. perf.: prope geminata cacumina montium
, nearly of the same height
, Liv. 36, 24, 9.— II. Neutr., to be double, Lucr. 4, 451.