noun
vēlābrum
Meaning
- a covering
vēlābrum, i, n. velo,
I. a covering or awning stretched above the theatre, Amm. 14, 6, 25.
Vēlābrum, i, n.
I. A street in Rome on the Aventine Hill, between the Vicus Tuscus and the Forum Boarium, where especially oil-dealers and cheesemongers sold their wares, Varr. L. L. 5, § 43 sq. Müll.; Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 29; id. Curc. 4, 1, 22; Hor. S. 2, 3, 229; Tib. 2, 5, 33; Prop. 4 (5), 9, 5; Ov. F. 6, 405.— Hence, Vēlābrensis, e, adj., of or belonging to the Velabrum, Velabrian:
caseus, Mart. 13, 32, 2; cf. id. 11, 52, 10.—II. Velabrum Minus, a small street in Rome, Varr. L. L. 5, § 156 Müll.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Vēlābrum ī, n
a street of Rome on the Aventine Mount, frequented by dealers in oil and cheese, H.—Plur. (poet.), O.