Meaning of munus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a service, office, employment
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2. a burden, duty, obligation
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3. a service, favor
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4. a spectacle, public show
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5. a public building made at the expense of an individual
   declension-3, in-plural
6. a gift
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Equivalents

Examples

“[…] ut lubentius, audiēns sē citārier ad suum mūnus, hūc aditum ferat dux bonae Veneris, bonī coniugātor amōris. […] so that with more pleasure, hearing himself being hurried to his office, towards here might come”

goodly love.

“Tū modo Pompeiā lentus spatiāre sub umbrā, cum sōl Herculeī terga leōnis adit: aut ubi mūneribus nātī sua mūnera māter”

Just slowly take a walk under the shadow, when the sun goes towards the back of the Herculean lion; or where the mother to her son's buildings her own buildings has added, a work rich by its exterior marble.

“Hīc ubi mīrāmur vēlōcia mūnera thermās,”

Here where we wonder at the speedy public building of a bath, a vain tract of land had taken the houses away from the poor.

“in stipulā placidī capiēbat mūnera somnī”

On stubble he was enjoying the gifts of peaceful sleep

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