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1 adamas
ădămas, antis, m. (acc. Gr. adamanta, adamantas), = adamas (invincible), adamant, the hard est iron or steel; hence poet., for any thing inflexible, firm, lasting, etc. (first used by Verg.):II.porta adversa ingens solidoque adamante columnae,
Verg. A. 6, 552; cf. Mart. 5, 11;adamante texto vincire,
with adamantine chains, Sen. Herc. F. 807.— Trop. of character, hard, unyielding, inexorable:nec rigidos silices solidumve in pectore ferrum aut adamanta gerit,
a heart of stone, Ov. M. 9, 615:lacrimis adamanta movebis,
will move a heart of stone, id. A. A. 1, 659; so id. Tr. 4, 8, 45:voce tua posses adamanta movere,
Mart. 7, 99:duro nec enim ex adamante creati, Sed tua turba sumus,
Stat. S. 1, 2, 69. —The diamond:adamanta infragilem omni cetera vi sanguine hireino rumpente,
Plin. 20, prooem. 1; 37, 4, 15, § 55 sq. -
2 anancites
ănancītes, ae, m., [an- anchô, to free from distress], a name of the diamond as a remedy for sadness and trouble of mind:adamas et venena vincit et lymphationes abigit metusque vanos expellit a mente. Ob id quidam eum ananciten vocavere,
Plin. 37, 4, 15, § 61 Sillig, Jan; the old reading here was anachiten. -
3 argyrodamas
argyrŏdămas, antis, m., = argurodamas, a silver-colored stone, similar to the diamond, Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 144. -
4 scutula
1.scŭtŭla, ae, f. dim. [scutra; cf. scutella].I.Lit., a little dish or platter of a nearly square form (cf. lanx), Cato, R. R. 68, 1; Mart. 11, 31, 19; 8, 71, 7.—II.Transf., of figures thus shaped, a diamond-, rhomb-, or lozenge-shaped figure:2.(pavimenta) si sectilia sunt, nulli gradus in scutulis aut trigonis aut quadratis seu favis exstent,
Vitr. 7, 1;so of a tesselated floor,
Pall. 1, 9, 5;of checkered stuffs,
Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 196 (cf. scutulatus); id. 17, 16, 26, § 118.—Of the shape of a country:formam totius Britanniae eloquentissimi auctores oblongae scutulae vel bipenni assimulavere,
Tac. Agr. 10.—Of a patch on the eye, for a disguise:scutula ob oculos lanea,
Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 42.scŭtŭla (in a Greek orthog. scy-tăla or scytălē; v. II. and III.), ae, f., = skutalê (a staff, stick).I.A wooden roller or cylinder:II.quattuor biremes, subjectis scutulis, impulsas vectibus in interiorem partem transduxit,
Caes. B. C. 3, 40, 4.—A secret writing, secret letter among the Lacedaemonians (it being written on a slip of papyrus wrapped round a skutalê; pure Lat. clava):III.scytala,
Nep. Paus. 3, 4:scytale,
Aus. Ep. 23, 23; cf. Gell. 17, 9, 15 (written as Greek, Cic. Att. 10, 10, 3, habes skutalên Lakônikên).—A cylindrical snake (of equal thickness throughout), Plin. [p. 1651] 82, 5, 19, § 53; Luc. 9, 717; Sol. 27, § 30; cf. Col. 6, 17. 1. -
5 scytale
1.scŭtŭla, ae, f. dim. [scutra; cf. scutella].I.Lit., a little dish or platter of a nearly square form (cf. lanx), Cato, R. R. 68, 1; Mart. 11, 31, 19; 8, 71, 7.—II.Transf., of figures thus shaped, a diamond-, rhomb-, or lozenge-shaped figure:2.(pavimenta) si sectilia sunt, nulli gradus in scutulis aut trigonis aut quadratis seu favis exstent,
Vitr. 7, 1;so of a tesselated floor,
Pall. 1, 9, 5;of checkered stuffs,
Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 196 (cf. scutulatus); id. 17, 16, 26, § 118.—Of the shape of a country:formam totius Britanniae eloquentissimi auctores oblongae scutulae vel bipenni assimulavere,
Tac. Agr. 10.—Of a patch on the eye, for a disguise:scutula ob oculos lanea,
Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 42.scŭtŭla (in a Greek orthog. scy-tăla or scytălē; v. II. and III.), ae, f., = skutalê (a staff, stick).I.A wooden roller or cylinder:II.quattuor biremes, subjectis scutulis, impulsas vectibus in interiorem partem transduxit,
Caes. B. C. 3, 40, 4.—A secret writing, secret letter among the Lacedaemonians (it being written on a slip of papyrus wrapped round a skutalê; pure Lat. clava):III.scytala,
Nep. Paus. 3, 4:scytale,
Aus. Ep. 23, 23; cf. Gell. 17, 9, 15 (written as Greek, Cic. Att. 10, 10, 3, habes skutalên Lakônikên).—A cylindrical snake (of equal thickness throughout), Plin. [p. 1651] 82, 5, 19, § 53; Luc. 9, 717; Sol. 27, § 30; cf. Col. 6, 17. 1.
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