book Copy link Outline I. A literary work1. lĭber, bri, m.2. lĭbellus (a small b.)3. vŏlūmen (a roll)4. cōdex, ĭcis, m. (the leaves of which were arranged like those of modern b.s)5. charta (strictly a leaf of papyrus)II. A division or portion of a literary work1. lĭber2. vŏlūmen (inasmuch as each often occupied a separate roll)III. In pl. books of business • book: I. A literary work: 1. lĭber, bri, m.: to read b.s, l. legere, Cic.: to publish a b., l. edere, Cic.: to write a b., l. scribere, Cic.: the b. has been published, l. exiit, Cic.: a bound b., l. conglutinatus, Ulp.: he (the elder Pliny) used to say that no b. was so bad as to be utterly useless, dicere solebat nullum esse l. tam malum ut non aliqua parte prodesset, Plin. ep. 3, 5. 2. lĭbellus (a small b.): Cic.: Ov. 3. vŏlūmen (a roll): to unroll = turn over (hence, to read), to open a b., v. explicare or evolvere, Cic.: Epicurus' divine b. respecting rule and judgment, coeleste Epicuri v. de regula et judicio, Cic. 4. cōdex, ĭcis, m. (the leaves of which were arranged like those of modern b.s): Piso has filled many b.s, Piso multos c. implevit, Cic.: Ulp. 5. charta (strictly a leaf of papyrus): to grow pale with study of b.s, impallescere chartis, Pers.: the b.s of Cicero, chartae Arpinae, Mart. Phr.: to get to the end of a b., ad umbilīcos pervenire, Mart. (the roller being finished off with bosses): to explain anything without b., aliquid ex memoria (memoriter) exponere, Cic.: v. by heart. II. A division or portion of a literary work: 1. lĭber: three b.s respecting the nature of the gods are finished, tres l. perfecti sunt de natura Deorum, Cic.: I have lately read your fourth (book) de Finibus, legi tuum nuper quartum de Finibus, Cic. 2. vŏlūmen (inasmuch as each often occupied a separate roll): there are too fifteen b.s of the Metamorphoses, sunt quoque mutatae ter quinque v. formae, Ov. III. In pl. books of business: tăbŭlae: v. account-book, and foll. art.