hedge (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. sēpes (saep.), is, f. (often but not necessarily of growing wood = s. viva, Col. 11, 3)2. sēpīmentum naturale (quick-set) • hedge (subs.): 1. sēpes (saep.), is, f. (often but not necessarily of growing wood = s. viva, Col. 11, 3): Virg. E. 1, 54: Pall. 1, 34: Col. 2. sēpīmentum naturale (quick-set): Varr. R. R. 1, 14: v. fence.
HEDGE Copy link • HEDGE 1. s. sepes: sepimentum (any kind of hedge or fence): indago (surrounding part of a forest): septum (a hedge, and the place hedged in; e.g., for the chase, venationis). A quick hedge, naturale sepimentum vivae sepis; viva sepis: a hedge cut into shape, opus topiarium: to put a hedge round anything, aliquid sepire or consepire (general term); circumsepire; septo circumdare aliquid (when the hedge goes all round); sepis munimento cingere (when the leading notion is that of protection or defence). 2. v. *sepe viva circumdare: *cingere munimento sepis vivae, or the general terms, sepire, consepire (aliqua re); circumsepire; or vepribus et dumetis sepire (Cic.; but speaking of what was covered with brambles, etc., from neglect).