GROVE, a small wood or cluster of trees. Among the ancient groves were held in great veneration. The proseuchæ, and high places of the Jews, whither they resorted for the purposes of devotion, were probably situated in groves (see JOSHUA xxiv. 26). The proseuchæ in Alexandria, mentioned by Philo, had groves about them; for he complains that the Alexandrians, in a tumult against the Jews, cut down the trees of their proseuchæ. There were groves near many of the Roman temples, which were consecrated to some god, and, as Cicero alleges, called luci by antiphrasis, a non lucendo, as being shady and dark.