I. Lit.
A. In gen., a sister: Th. Salve, mea soror. Pl. Frater mi, salve, Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 57; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 68 sq.: germana soror, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 42 Vahl.); cf.: “mea soror gemina germana,” Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 30 sq.; so, “germana,” Cic. Mil. 27, 73: “Jovis,” i. e. Juno, Verg. A. 1, 47; Hor. C. 3, 3, 64; Ov. M. 3, 266; id. F. 6, 27 al.: “Phoebi,” i. e. Luna, id. H. 11, 45; cf. id. F. 3, 110: “agnam Aeneas matri Eumenidum magnaeque sorori ferit,” i. e. to Nox and Terra, Verg. A. 6, 250: “doctae,” i. e. the Muses, Tib. 3, 4, 45; Ov. M. 5, 255; “called also sorores novem,” id. Tr. 5, 12, 45: “genitae Nocte,” i. e. the Furies, id. M. 4, 451; “called also crinitae angue sorores,” id. ib. 10, 349; “and, vipereae,” id. ib. 6, 662: “tristes,” i. e. the Fates, Tib. 3, 3, 35; “called also sorores tres,” Prop. 2, 13, 44 (3, 5, 28); Hor. C. 2, 3, 15; Ov. M. 15, 808.—Of beasts: “in grege prioris anni sororem equa comitatur,” Plin. 8, 42, 64, § 156.—Prov.: “bonae mentis soror est paupertas,” Petr. 84, 4.—
B. In partic., poet.: “sorores,” the Muses, Prop. 3 (4), 1, 17. the Fates, Cat. 64, 326; Ov. H. 12, 3; 15, 81; Mart. 4, 54, 9; 4, 73, 3; the Danaides, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 67; Ov. H. 14, 15.—
II. Transf. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
A. A cousin, the daughter of a father's brother, Ov. M. 1, 351.—
B. A female friend, playmate, or companion, Verg. A. 1, 321; 11, 823; Tib. 3, 1, 26; Sen. Hippol. 611; Petr. 127; Mart. 2, 4, 3; 12, 20, 2; “Inscr. Marin. Iscriz. Alb. p. 60.—In eccl. Lat.,” female Christians, Vulg. 1, Tim. 5, 2.—
