• MINE

1. pronoun, meus: What is thine is mine, quod tuum est, meum est (Terentianus): the inheritance is mine, hereditas mea est, mihi obtigit: it is not mine to utter a falsehood (poetical), non est mentiri meum (Terentianus).

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• s. PROP., An excavation for obtaining metals, metallum, or, plur., metalla, -orum, neuter; fodina (a pit). to make mines, metalla instituere: to work mines, metalla exercere: to work mines afresh, metalla intermissa recolere: to condemn anybody to the mines, in metallum damnare (Plin.); ad metalla condemnare (Suet.): the right of opening a mine on one’s estate, jus metallorum: iron mine metallum ferrarium or ferri: gold, silver mine, metallum aurarium, argentarium.
• Figuratively, a rich repository, *fons uberrimus, e quo haurire possumus; or by thesaurus (a treasure), etc.
• PROP., an excavation for military purposes, cuniculus (Caes.); specus suffossus (Curt.). To form a mine, cuniculum agere: to spring a mine, *vi pulveris pyrii cuniculum discutere; *ignem admovere pulveri nitrato in cuniculo defosso; *pulvere pyrio incenso moles superstructas discutere: to throw down the walls by mines, cuniculis muros subruere (Liv.).

3. v. (in military language), cuniculum agere (Liv.); aliquem locum suffodere (Plin.).