elbow

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bracchĭum (less correctly brāchĭ-um; gen. bracchi, Lucr. 6, 434), ii, n. [perh. kindr. with Gr. brachiôn; but cf. Sanscr. bāhu; like frango, Sanscr. bhang, Bopp, Gloss. p. 239 a], the arm; particularly,

Lit., the forearm, from the hand to the elbow (while lacertus is the upper arm, from the elbow to the shoulder), Lucr. 4, 830; 6, 397:

bracchia et lacerti,

Ov. M. 1, 501; 1, 550 sq.:

subjecta lacertis bracchia,

id. ib. 14, 305; Curt. 8, 9, 21; 9, 1, 29:

(feminae) nudae bracchia et lacertos,

Tac. G. 17 (opp. umerus); Cels. 8, 1, § 79 sqq.; 8, 10, § 55 sqq.—Far oftener,

Transf.

In gen., the arm, the whole arm, from the shoulder to the fingers, Pac. ap. Non. p. 87, 26, and Varr. L. L. 5, 7, p. 4 Müll.; id. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4:

quod eum bracchium fregisse diceret,

Cic. de Or. 2, 62, 253; cf. Cels. 1, 10, 3:

multi ut diu jactato bracchio praeoptarent scutum manu emittere et nudo corpore pugnare,

Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

bracchium (sc. dextrum) cohibere togā,

Cic. Cael. 5, 11 (cf. Sen. Contr. 5, 6:

bracchium extra togam exserere): eodem ictu bracchia ferro exsolvunt (i.e. venas incidunt, as, soon after, crurum et poplitum venas abrumpit),

Tac. A. 15, 63; 1, 41.—Of embraces:

collo dare bracchia circum,

to throw the arms round the neck, Verg. A. 6, 700; cf.:

circumdare collo,

Ov. M. 9, 459:

implicare collo,

id. ib. 1, 762:

inicere collo,

id. ib. 3, 389:

cervici dare,

Hor. C. 3, 9, 2:

lentis adhaerens bracchiis,

id. Epod. 15, 6: Hephaestionis bracchium hastā ictum est, Curt. 4, 16, 31:

ut in jaculando bracchia reducimus,

Quint. 10, 3, 6:

sinisteriore bracchio,

Suet. Dom. 17:

bracchia ad superas extulit auras,

Verg. A. 5, 427:

alternaque jactat Bracchia protendens (Dares),

id. ib. 5, 377:

juventus horrida bracchiis,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 50.—Of a rower:

si bracchia forte remisit,

Verg. G. 1, 202:

matri bracchia tendere,

Ov. M. 3, 723:

patrio tendens bracchia caelo,

id. ib. 9, 210:

tendens ad caelum bracchia,

id. ib. 9, 293:

precando Bracchia sustulerat,

id. ib. 6, 262.—Prov.:

dirigere bracchia contra Torrentem,

to swim against the current, Juv. 4, 89.—

Of the movement of the arms in speaking:

bracchii projectione in contentionibus, contractione in remissis,

Cic. Or. 18, 59; so Quint. 11, 3, 84:

extento bracchio paululum de gestu addidit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242:

demissa bracchia,

Quint. 2, 13, 9:

a latere modice remota,

id. 11, 3, 159:

ut bracchio exserto introspiciatur latus,

id. 11, 3, 118:

aliqui transversum bracchium proferunt et cubito pronunciant,

id. 11, 3, 93:

bracchium in latus jactant,

id. 4, 2, 39:

si contendemus per continuationem, bracchio celeri, mobili vultu utemur,

Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—

Of the motion of the arms in dancing:

bracchia in numerum jactare,

Lucr. 4, 769;

imitated by Ov.: numerosa bracchia jactat (ducit, Jahn),

Ov. Am. 2,4,29, and id. R. Am. 754; Lucr. 4, 790; imitated in Ov. A. A. 1, 595; Prop. 2 (3), 22, 6; imitated in Stat. S. 3, 5, 66; cf.

of the labors of the Cyclopes: illi inter sese magnā vi bracchia tollunt In numerum,

Verg. G. 4, 174.—

Trop.: levi or molli bracchio agere aliquid, to do any thing superficially, negligently, remissly (prob. peculiar to the lang. of conversation), Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6; so,

molli bracchio aliquem objurgare,

id. ib. 2, 1, 6.—Prov.:

praebuerim sceleri bracchia nostra tuo,

lend a hand, Ov. H. 7, 126.—

The limbs of animals analogous to the arms of men; of the claws of crawfish, etc., Ov. M. 4, 625; 10, 127; 15, 369; Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 97: hence also of the sign Cancer, Ov. M. 2, 83; also of Scorpio, Verg. G. 1, 34; Ov. M. 2, 82; 2, 195.—Of the claws of the nautilus, Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88, and other sea-fish, id. 11, 48, 108, § 258.—Of the lion:

in feminum et bracchiorum ossibus,

Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214.—

Comicé for armus or femur (as inversely armus = bracchium): Ar. Edepol vel elephanto in Indiā Quo pacto pugno perfregisti bracchium. Py. Quid? bracchium? Ar. Illud dicere volui femur, the shoulder, the shoulder-blade of the elephant, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 26 sq. Brix ad loc.—

The branches of trees (cf. Ov. M. 1, 550: in ramos bracchia crescunt;

v. also manus and coma): vitem sub bracchia ungito,

Cato, R. R. 95 fin.;

of the vine,

Verg. G. 2, 368; Col. 4, 24, 2; 7, 8 sq.; 5, 5, 9 sq.; Pall. Febr. 9, 6;

id. Mai, 2, 1: quatiens bracchia Quercus,

Cat. 64, 105:

differt quod in bracchia ramorum spargitur,

Plin. 13, 9, 18, § 62:

(aesculus) Tum fortes late ramos et bracchia tendens, etc.,

Verg. G. 2, 296; Ov. M. 14, 630; Val. Fl. 8, 114.—

An arm of the sea:

nec bracchia longo Margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite,

Ov. M. 1, 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16.—

The collateral branches or ridges of a mountain:

Taurus ubi bracchia emittit,

Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98.—

Poet., = antenna, the sail-yards:

jubet intendi bracchia velis,

Verg. A. 5, 829; cf. Stat. S. 5, 1, 244.—

In milit. lang., a ( natural or artificial) outwork or line for connecting two points in fortifications, etc.; Gr. skelê:

aliā parte consul muro Ardeae bracchium injunxerat,

a line of communication, Liv. 4, 9, 14; 38, 5, 8; 22, 52, 1 Drak.; 44, 35, 13; Hirt. B. Alex. 30; id. B. Afr. 38; 49; 51; 56; id. B. Hisp. 5; 6; 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16; Luc. 3, 387; 4, 266.—So of the side-works, moles, dikes, in the fortification of a harbor, Liv. 31, 26, 8; cf. Just. 5, 8, 5 Gron.; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 15; Suet. Claud. 20.—

The arm of a catapult or ballista, Vitr. 1, 1; 10, 15 sq.

bracchĭum (less correctly brāchĭ-um; gen. bracchi, Lucr. 6, 434), ii, n. [perh. kindr. with Gr. brachiôn; but cf. Sanscr. bāhu; like frango, Sanscr. bhang, Bopp, Gloss. p. 239 a], the arm; particularly,

Lit., the forearm, from the hand to the elbow (while lacertus is the upper arm, from the elbow to the shoulder), Lucr. 4, 830; 6, 397:

bracchia et lacerti,

Ov. M. 1, 501; 1, 550 sq.:

subjecta lacertis bracchia,

id. ib. 14, 305; Curt. 8, 9, 21; 9, 1, 29:

(feminae) nudae bracchia et lacertos,

Tac. G. 17 (opp. umerus); Cels. 8, 1, § 79 sqq.; 8, 10, § 55 sqq.—Far oftener,

Transf.

In gen., the arm, the whole arm, from the shoulder to the fingers, Pac. ap. Non. p. 87, 26, and Varr. L. L. 5, 7, p. 4 Müll.; id. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4:

quod eum bracchium fregisse diceret,

Cic. de Or. 2, 62, 253; cf. Cels. 1, 10, 3:

multi ut diu jactato bracchio praeoptarent scutum manu emittere et nudo corpore pugnare,

Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

bracchium (sc. dextrum) cohibere togā,

Cic. Cael. 5, 11 (cf. Sen. Contr. 5, 6:

bracchium extra togam exserere): eodem ictu bracchia ferro exsolvunt (i.e. venas incidunt, as, soon after, crurum et poplitum venas abrumpit),

Tac. A. 15, 63; 1, 41.—Of embraces:

collo dare bracchia circum,

to throw the arms round the neck, Verg. A. 6, 700; cf.:

circumdare collo,

Ov. M. 9, 459:

implicare collo,

id. ib. 1, 762:

inicere collo,

id. ib. 3, 389:

cervici dare,

Hor. C. 3, 9, 2:

lentis adhaerens bracchiis,

id. Epod. 15, 6: Hephaestionis bracchium hastā ictum est, Curt. 4, 16, 31:

ut in jaculando bracchia reducimus,

Quint. 10, 3, 6:

sinisteriore bracchio,

Suet. Dom. 17:

bracchia ad superas extulit auras,

Verg. A. 5, 427:

alternaque jactat Bracchia protendens (Dares),

id. ib. 5, 377:

juventus horrida bracchiis,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 50.—Of a rower:

si bracchia forte remisit,

Verg. G. 1, 202:

matri bracchia tendere,

Ov. M. 3, 723:

patrio tendens bracchia caelo,

id. ib. 9, 210:

tendens ad caelum bracchia,

id. ib. 9, 293:

precando Bracchia sustulerat,

id. ib. 6, 262.—Prov.:

dirigere bracchia contra Torrentem,

to swim against the current, Juv. 4, 89.—

Of the movement of the arms in speaking:

bracchii projectione in contentionibus, contractione in remissis,

Cic. Or. 18, 59; so Quint. 11, 3, 84:

extento bracchio paululum de gestu addidit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242:

demissa bracchia,

Quint. 2, 13, 9:

a latere modice remota,

id. 11, 3, 159:

ut bracchio exserto introspiciatur latus,

id. 11, 3, 118:

aliqui transversum bracchium proferunt et cubito pronunciant,

id. 11, 3, 93:

bracchium in latus jactant,

id. 4, 2, 39:

si contendemus per continuationem, bracchio celeri, mobili vultu utemur,

Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—

Of the motion of the arms in dancing:

bracchia in numerum jactare,

Lucr. 4, 769;

imitated by Ov.: numerosa bracchia jactat (ducit, Jahn),

Ov. Am. 2,4,29, and id. R. Am. 754; Lucr. 4, 790; imitated in Ov. A. A. 1, 595; Prop. 2 (3), 22, 6; imitated in Stat. S. 3, 5, 66; cf.

of the labors of the Cyclopes: illi inter sese magnā vi bracchia tollunt In numerum,

Verg. G. 4, 174.—

Trop.: levi or molli bracchio agere aliquid, to do any thing superficially, negligently, remissly (prob. peculiar to the lang. of conversation), Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6; so,

molli bracchio aliquem objurgare,

id. ib. 2, 1, 6.—Prov.:

praebuerim sceleri bracchia nostra tuo,

lend a hand, Ov. H. 7, 126.—

The limbs of animals analogous to the arms of men; of the claws of crawfish, etc., Ov. M. 4, 625; 10, 127; 15, 369; Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 97: hence also of the sign Cancer, Ov. M. 2, 83; also of Scorpio, Verg. G. 1, 34; Ov. M. 2, 82; 2, 195.—Of the claws of the nautilus, Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88, and other sea-fish, id. 11, 48, 108, § 258.—Of the lion:

in feminum et bracchiorum ossibus,

Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214.—

Comicé for armus or femur (as inversely armus = bracchium): Ar. Edepol vel elephanto in Indiā Quo pacto pugno perfregisti bracchium. Py. Quid? bracchium? Ar. Illud dicere volui femur, the shoulder, the shoulder-blade of the elephant, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 26 sq. Brix ad loc.—

The branches of trees (cf. Ov. M. 1, 550: in ramos bracchia crescunt;

v. also manus and coma): vitem sub bracchia ungito,

Cato, R. R. 95 fin.;

of the vine,

Verg. G. 2, 368; Col. 4, 24, 2; 7, 8 sq.; 5, 5, 9 sq.; Pall. Febr. 9, 6;

id. Mai, 2, 1: quatiens bracchia Quercus,

Cat. 64, 105:

differt quod in bracchia ramorum spargitur,

Plin. 13, 9, 18, § 62:

(aesculus) Tum fortes late ramos et bracchia tendens, etc.,

Verg. G. 2, 296; Ov. M. 14, 630; Val. Fl. 8, 114.—

An arm of the sea:

nec bracchia longo Margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite,

Ov. M. 1, 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16.—

The collateral branches or ridges of a mountain:

Taurus ubi bracchia emittit,

Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98.—

Poet., = antenna, the sail-yards:

jubet intendi bracchia velis,

Verg. A. 5, 829; cf. Stat. S. 5, 1, 244.—

In milit. lang., a ( natural or artificial) outwork or line for connecting two points in fortifications, etc.; Gr. skelê:

aliā parte consul muro Ardeae bracchium injunxerat,

a line of communication, Liv. 4, 9, 14; 38, 5, 8; 22, 52, 1 Drak.; 44, 35, 13; Hirt. B. Alex. 30; id. B. Afr. 38; 49; 51; 56; id. B. Hisp. 5; 6; 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16; Luc. 3, 387; 4, 266.—So of the side-works, moles, dikes, in the fortification of a harbor, Liv. 31, 26, 8; cf. Just. 5, 8, 5 Gron.; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 15; Suet. Claud. 20.—

The arm of a catapult or ballista, Vitr. 1, 1; 10, 15 sq.

cŭbĭtum, i, n. ( cŭbĭtus, i, m., Cels. 8, 1; 8, 16; Non. p. 201, 16) [id.], the elbow (serving for leaning upon).

Prop., Cels. 1. 1.; Plin. 11, 45, 102, § 249; Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 13; Verg. A. 4, 690; Ov. M. 7, 343; Hor. C. 1, 27, 8; id. S. 2, 4, 39; Quint. 11, 3, 93 al.—

Meton.

The bending, curvature of a shore:

orae,

Plin. 3, 13, 18, § 111. —

As a measure of length, the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger, an ell, a cubit, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 201, 18; Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 15; Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 66; id. Att. 13, 12, 3; Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 22; Suet. Aug. 43 al.—Prov.:

assiduo cursu cubitum nullum procedere,

Cic. Att. 13, 12, 3; cf.:

cursitare ac ne cubiti quidem mensuram progredi,

Suet. Tib. 38.—Hence, Ital. cubito; Fr. coude.

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the elbow / a cubit

ancōn, ōnis, m. [v. ango], = ankôn (the bend of the arm), t. t., for the pure Lat. cubitum.

The arm of a workman's square, Vitr. 3, 3 fin.; 8, 6.—

A stone in a wall, which projects above more than below, and supports something; a console or volute, Vitr. 4, 6.—

The knobbed bars of a hydraulic engine, Vitr. 10, 13.—

Forked poles for spreading nets (pure Lat., ames, Hor. Epod. 2, 33), Grat. Cyn. 87.—

The arm of a chair, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1.—

A kind of drinking-vessel in an alehouse, Dig. 33, 7, 13.

Ancōn, ōnis, f. [v. ango], a headland and bay, as the name implies, on the coast of Pontus, east of Amisus, now Derbend Bournow, Val. Fl. 4, 600; cf. Apoll. Rhod. 2, 369.

Ancōn, ōnis, or Ancōna, ae, f. [v. ango], = Ankôn, an ancient seaport town in the north of Picenum, situated on a promontory forming a remarkable curve or elbow, as the name implies, founded by the Syracusans, still called Ancona; form Ancōna, Cic. Phil. 12, 9, 23; id. Fam. 16, 12, 2; Caes. B. C. 1, 11; Plin. 2, 72, 74, § 182; 3, 13, 18, § 111 sq. al.—Form Ancōn, Mel. 2, 4, 5; Cat. 36, 13; Sil. 8, 438; Juv. 4, 40 al.; and in a pun: Cingulum nos tenemus;

Anconem amisimus,

Cic. Att. 7, 11, 1.

ancōn, ōnis, m. [v. ango], = ankôn (the bend of the arm), t. t., for the pure Lat. cubitum.

The arm of a workman's square, Vitr. 3, 3 fin.; 8, 6.—

A stone in a wall, which projects above more than below, and supports something; a console or volute, Vitr. 4, 6.—

The knobbed bars of a hydraulic engine, Vitr. 10, 13.—

Forked poles for spreading nets (pure Lat., ames, Hor. Epod. 2, 33), Grat. Cyn. 87.—

The arm of a chair, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1.—

A kind of drinking-vessel in an alehouse, Dig. 33, 7, 13.

Ancōn, ōnis, f. [v. ango], a headland and bay, as the name implies, on the coast of Pontus, east of Amisus, now Derbend Bournow, Val. Fl. 4, 600; cf. Apoll. Rhod. 2, 369.

Ancōn, ōnis, or Ancōna, ae, f. [v. ango], = Ankôn, an ancient seaport town in the north of Picenum, situated on a promontory forming a remarkable curve or elbow, as the name implies, founded by the Syracusans, still called Ancona; form Ancōna, Cic. Phil. 12, 9, 23; id. Fam. 16, 12, 2; Caes. B. C. 1, 11; Plin. 2, 72, 74, § 182; 3, 13, 18, § 111 sq. al.—Form Ancōn, Mel. 2, 4, 5; Cat. 36, 13; Sil. 8, 438; Juv. 4, 40 al.; and in a pun: Cingulum nos tenemus;

Anconem amisimus,

Cic. Att. 7, 11, 1.

ancōn, ōnis, m. [v. ango], = ankôn (the bend of the arm), t. t., for the pure Lat. cubitum.

The arm of a workman's square, Vitr. 3, 3 fin.; 8, 6.—

A stone in a wall, which projects above more than below, and supports something; a console or volute, Vitr. 4, 6.—

The knobbed bars of a hydraulic engine, Vitr. 10, 13.—

Forked poles for spreading nets (pure Lat., ames, Hor. Epod. 2, 33), Grat. Cyn. 87.—

The arm of a chair, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1.—

A kind of drinking-vessel in an alehouse, Dig. 33, 7, 13.

Ancōn, ōnis, f. [v. ango], a headland and bay, as the name implies, on the coast of Pontus, east of Amisus, now Derbend Bournow, Val. Fl. 4, 600; cf. Apoll. Rhod. 2, 369.

Ancōn, ōnis, or Ancōna, ae, f. [v. ango], = Ankôn, an ancient seaport town in the north of Picenum, situated on a promontory forming a remarkable curve or elbow, as the name implies, founded by the Syracusans, still called Ancona; form Ancōna, Cic. Phil. 12, 9, 23; id. Fam. 16, 12, 2; Caes. B. C. 1, 11; Plin. 2, 72, 74, § 182; 3, 13, 18, § 111 sq. al.—Form Ancōn, Mel. 2, 4, 5; Cat. 36, 13; Sil. 8, 438; Juv. 4, 40 al.; and in a pun: Cingulum nos tenemus;

Anconem amisimus,

Cic. Att. 7, 11, 1.

arcus, ūs, m. (the orthography, arquus (cf. arquatus), is freq. in MSS., like quum for cum, quur for cur, etc.; cf. Freund ad Cic. Mil. p. 31 sq. Thus Charis. p. 92 P. upon Cic. N. D. 3, 20, 51, reads arcuis; Prisc. p. 712 P. arci; and Non. p. 425, 5, upon Lucr. 6, 526, arqui; but the distinction which the latter gram. points out (arcus suspensus fornix appellatur; arquus non nisi qui in caelo apparet, quam Irim poëtae dixerunt) does not seem to be well founded.— Abl. plur. never found;

acc. to the gram., Don. p. 1751,

Diom. p. 285, Prisc. p. 779, Rhem. Palaem. p. 1371 P. al., it was arcubus; so Vulg. 2 Esdr. 4, 13; cf. Rudd. I. p. 104, n. 48.— Gen. sing. arqui, Lucr. 6, 526 Lachm., and Cic. N. D. 3, 20, 51 B. and K.— Dat. arcu, Sil. 4, 18.— Nom. plur. ARCVVS, Corp. Inscr. V. 85; Inscr. Henz. 5313: arci, Varr. ap. Non. p. 77, 12.— Acc. ARCOS, Corp. Inscr. II. 3420.— Fem., Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 712 P.; cf. id. 658 P.; and Serv. ad Verg. 6, 610, says that Catull. and others used it as fem.; v. Neue, Formenl. I. p. 679) [cf. Sanscr. arālas = bent, the bent arm, aratnis = Gr. ôlenê; Lat. ulna; Germ. Elbogen; Engl. elbow. Curt.], prop., something bent; hence,

A bow (syn. cornu).

For shooting: intendit crinitus Apollo Arcum auratum, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 54 Müll.):

arcus intentus in aliquem,

Cic. Sest. 7:

haec cernens arcum intendebat Apollo Desuper,

Verg. A. 8, 704; 9, 665; so Vulg. Psa. 10, 3; 36, 14:

arcum tendere,

ib. 3 Reg. 22, 34; ib. 4 Reg. 9, 24:

adductus,

Verg. A. 5, 507:

remissus,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 67:

arcum dirigere in aliquem,

Pers. 3, 60:

quom arcum et pharetram mi et sagittas sumpsero,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 98; so,

arcum suscitare,

Vulg. Hab. 3, 9 et saep. —

The rainbow (fully: pluvius arcus, v. infra, II.), Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 712 P. (Ann. v. 393 Vahl.): Tum color in nigris existit nubibus arqui, * Lucr. 6, 526 Lachm.:

arcus ipse ex nubibus efficitur quodam modo coloratis,

Cic. N. D. 3, 20, 51:

ceu nubibus arcus Mille jacit varios adverso sole colores,

Verg. A. 5, 88 Rib.; so Ov. M. 6, 63; 11, 632; 14, 838:

pluvius describitur arcus,

Hor. A. P. 18; Liv. 30, 2; 41, 21; Plin. 18, 35, 80, § 353; Sen. Q. N. 1, 5 and 6:

arcum meum ponam in nubibus,

Vulg. Gen. 9, 13 sqq. (in Vulg. Apoc. 4, 3; 10, 1, iris, q. v.) al.—

A bow or arch in building, a vault, arch, triumphal arch, etc.:

efficiens humilem lapidum compagibus arcum,

Ov. M. 3, 30; 3, 160; Juv. 3, 11; Suet. Ner. 25:

marmoreus arcus,

id. Claud. 1; so id. ib. 11; id. Dom. 13; cf. Plin. Pan. 59, 2 Schwarz.—

Transf.

Poet. or in post-Aug. prose, any thing arched or curved like a bow; of the breaking of waves:

niger arcus aquarum,

Ov. M. 11, 568.—Of the windings of a serpent:

immensos saltu sinuatur in arcus,

Ov. M. 3, 42.—Of a curve in flight:

dea se paribus per cælum sustulit alis Ingentemque fugā secuit sub nubibus arcum,

Verg. A. 5, 658.—Of the curving or bendings of a bay:

sinus curvos falcatus in arcus,

Ov. M. 11, 229 (cf.:

inque sinus scindit sese unda reductos,

Verg. A. 1, 161).—

Of a harbor: Portus ab Euroo fluctu curvatus in arcum,

Verg. A. 3, 533.—Of boughs of trees, Verg. G. 2, 26 et saep.—Of the back of a chair, Tac. A. 15, 57.—

The mathematical arc, Sen. Q. N. 1, 10; Col. 5, 2, 9.—Hence, of the five parallel circles of the globe which bound the zones (or perhaps rather, the zones themselves):

via quinque per arcus,

Ov. M. 2, 129.

lăcertus, i, m., the muscular part of the arm, from the shoulder to the elbow, the upper arm.

Lit., opp. bracchium, the forearm, Lucr. 4, 829; cf.:

laudat digitosque manusque, Bracchiaque et nudos mediā plus parte lacertos,

Ov. M. 1, 501; and:

subjecta lacertis brachia sunt,

id. ib. 14, 304; cf. also Quint. 8 prooem. 19:

brachia quoque et lacertos auro colunt,

Curt. 8, 9, 21.—

Transf.

The arm (esp. as brawny, muscular):

nam scutum gladium galeam in onere nostri milites non plus numerant quam umeros, lacertos, manus,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37:

Milo Crotoniates nobilitatus ex lateribus et lacertis suis,

Cic. de Sen. 9, 27:

excusso lacerto telum torquere,

Sen. Ben. 2, 6; Prop. 2, 18 (3, 15), 37:

lacertos collo imponere,

Ov. H. 16, 219:

lacerto jaculari,

id. Am. 3, 12, 27:

amplecti,

id. ib. 3, 8, 11:

candida cingantur colla lacertis,

id. A. A. 2, 457:

laevus,

Verg. A. 11, 693; Hor. S. 1, 6, 74:

adducto contortum hastile lacerto immittit,

Verg. A. 11, 561:

secto requiem sperare lacerto,

Juv. 6, 106. —Of bees:

spicula exacuunt rostris, aptantque lacertos,

i. e. make trial of, Verg. G. 4, 74.—

Transf.

A blow or cast from a strong arm, Sil. 16, 562; 1, 262.—

Trop., muscular power, muscle, strength, military force:

in Lysia saepe sunt lacerti, sic ut fieri nihil possit valentius,

Cic. Brut. 16, 64:

hastas oratoris lacertis viribusque torquere,

id. de Or. 1, 57, 242:

me civilis tulit aestus in arma, Caesaris Augusti non responsura lacertis,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 48;

Flor. prooem. § 8: viribus confisus admirandisque lacertis,

Juv. 10, 11.

lăcertus, i, a lizard; a sea-fish; v. lacerta.

rĕ-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3 ( perf. reposivi, Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16; part. sync. repostus, a, um, on account of the metre, Lucr. 1, 35; 3, 346; Verg. G. 3, 527; id. A. 1, 26; 6, 59; 655; 11, 149; Hor. Epod. 9, 1; Sil. 7, 507 al.), v. a., to lay, place, put, or set back, i. e.,

With the idea of the re predominant.

To lay, place, put, or set a thing back in its former place; to replace, restore, etc. (class.; syn. remitto).

Lit.:

cum suo quemque loco lapidem reponeret,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 146:

quicque suo loco,

Col. 12, 3, 4:

humum,

the earth dug from a pit, Verg. G. 2, 231:

pecuniam in thesauris,

Liv. 29, 18, 15 Weissenb.; 31, 13; cf.:

ornamenta templorum in pristinis sedibus,

Val. Max. 5, 1, 6:

infans repositus in cunas,

Suet. Aug. 94:

ossa in suas sedes,

Cels. 8, 10, 1:

femur ne difficulter reponatur vel repositum excidat,

set again, id. 8, 20; 8, 10, 7: se in cubitum, to lean on the elbow again (at table), Hor. S. 2, 4, 39:

insigne regium, quod ille de suo capite abjecerat, reposuit,

Cic. Sest. 27, 58:

columnas,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 147:

tantundem inaurati aeris,

Suet. Caes. 54:

togam,

to gather up again, Quint. 6, 3, 54; 11, 3, 149:

capillum,

id. 11, 3, 8, prooem. §

22: excussus curru ac rursus repositus,

Suet. Ner. 24:

nos in sceptra,

to reinstate, Verg. A. 1, 253; cf.:

reges per bella pulsos,

Sil. 10, 487:

aliquem solio,

Val. Fl. 6, 742:

veniet qui nos in lucem reponat dies,

Sen. Ep. 36, 10:

ut mihi des nummos sexcentos quos continuo tibi reponam hoc triduo aut quadriduo,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 38; Sen. Ben. 4, 32 fin.:

quosdam nihil reposuisse,

Plin. Ep. 8, 2, 6:

donata,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 39:

flammis ambesa reponunt Robora navigiis,

to replace, restore, Verg. A. 5, 752:

aris ignem,

id. ib. 3, 231:

molem,

Sil. 1, 558:

ruptos vetustate pontes,

Tac. A. 1, 63:

fora templaque,

id. H. 3, 34:

amissa urbi,

id. A. 16, 13:

statuas a plebe disjectas,

Suet. Caes. 65:

cenam,

Mart. 2, 37, 10;

so esp. freq. in Vergil, of the serving up of a second course, as of a renewed banquet: sublata pocula,

Verg. A. 8, 175:

plena pocula,

id. G. 4, 378:

vina mensis (soon after, instaurare epulas),

id. A. 7, 134:

epulas,

id. G. 3, 527:

festas mensas,

Stat. Th. 2, 88:

cibi frigidi et repositi,

Quint. 2, 4, 29.—

Trop., to put or bring back; to replace, restore, renew:

ut, si quid titubaverint (testes), opportuna rursus interrogatione velut in gradum reponantur,

Quint. 5, 7, 11; cf.:

excidentes unius admonitione verbi in memoriam reponuntur,

id. 11, 2, 19:

nec vera virtus, cum semel excidit, Curat reponi deterioribus,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 30.—

To represent or describe again, to repeat:

fabula quae posci vult et spectata reponi,

Hor. A. P. 190:

Achillem (after Homer),

id. ib. 120; cf.:

dicta paterna,

Pers. 6, 66.—

To repay, requite, return:

cogitemus, alios non facere injuriam, sed reponere,

Sen. Ira, 2, 28; cf. Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 19:

semper ego auditor tantum? nunquamne reponam?

repay, Juv. 1, 1.—

To put back, put to rest, quiet:

pontum et turbata litora,

Val. Fl. 1, 682; cf.:

post otiosam et repositam vitam,

Amm. 29, 1, 44.—

To bend backwards, lay back: (grues) mollia crura reponunt, bend back (in walking), Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 3, 76 (Ann. v. 545 Vahl.);

imitated by Virgil: pullus mollia crura reponit,

Verg. G. 3, 76:

cervicem reponunt et bracchium in latus jactant,

Quint. 4, 2, 39:

tereti cervice repostā,

Lucr. 1, 35:

interim quartus (digitus) oblique reponitur,

Quint. 11, 3, 99:

hic potissimum et vocem flectunt et cervicem reponunt,

id. 4, 2, 39:

membra (mortui) toro,

Verg. A. 6, 220:

membra stratis,

id. ib. 4, 392.—

To lay aside or away for preservation; to lay up, store up, keep, preserve, reserve (class.; cf.: regero, reservo).

Lit.: nec tempestive demetendi [p. 1571] percipiendique fructūs neque condendi ac reponendi ulla pecudum scientia est, Cic. N. D. 2, 62, 156:

cibum,

Quint. 2, 4, 29:

formicae farris acervum tecto reponunt,

Verg. A. 4, 403:

Caecubum ad festas dapes,

Hor. Epod. 9, 1:

mella in vetustatem,

Col. 12, 11, 1; 12, 44, 7:

alimenta in hiemem,

Quint. 2, 16, 16:

(caseum) hiemi,

Verg. G. 3, 403:

omnia quae multo ante memor provisa repones,

id. ib. 1, 167:

thesaurum,

Quint. 2, 7, 4:

scripta in aliquod tempus,

id. 10, 4, 2.— Poet.:

eadem (gratia) sequitur tellure repostos, i. e. conditos,

buried, Verg. A. 6, 655; cf.:

an poteris siccis mea fata reponere ocellis? (= me mortuum),

Prop. 1, 17, 11:

tu pias laetis animas reponis Sedibus,

Hor. C. 1, 10, 17:

repono infelix lacrimas, et tristia carmina servo,

Stat. S. 5, 5, 47.—

Trop.:

opus est studio praecedente et acquisitā facultate et quasi repositā,

Quint. 8, prooem. §

29: aliquid scriptis,

id. 11, 2, 9:

manet altā mente repostum Judicium Paridis,

Verg. A. 1, 26:

reponere odium,

Tac. Agr. 39 fin.:

sensibus haec imis... reponas,

Verg. E. 3, 54.—

To put in the place of, to substitute one thing for another (class.).

Lit.:

non puto te meas epistulas delere, ut reponas tuas,

Cic. Fam. 7, 18, 2:

Aristophanem pro Eupoli,

id. Att. 12, 6, 2; Quint. 11, 2, 49:

eorumque in vicem idonea reponenda,

Col. 4, 26, 2:

dira ne sedes vacet, monstrum repone majus,

Sen. Phoen. 122.—

Trop.:

at vero praeclarum diem illis reposuisti, Verria ut agerent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 21, § 52.—

To lay aside, to lay down, lay by, put away.

Lit.:

remum,

Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16:

arma omnia,

Caes. B. C. 2, 14:

caestus artemque,

Verg. A. 5, 484:

feretro reposto,

id. ib. 11, 149:

onus,

Cat. 31, 8:

telasque calathosque infectaque pensa,

Ov. M. 4, 10; Sil. 7, 507:

rursus sumptas figuras,

Ov. M. 12, 557:

bracchia,

to let down, Val. Fl. 4, 279.— Poet.:

jam falcem arbusta reponunt,

i. e. permit to be laid aside, Verg. G. 2, 416.—

Trop.:

brevem fugam,

to end the flight, Stat. Th. 6, 592:

iram,

Manil. 2, 649.—

With the idea of the verb predominant, to lay, place, put, set a thing anywhere (freq. and class.; syn. colloco).

Lit.:

grues in tergo praevolantium colla et capita reponunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125:

colla in plumis,

Ov. M. 10, 269:

litteras in gremio,

Liv. 26, 15:

hunc celso in ostro,

Val. Fl. 3, 339:

ligna super foco Large reponens,

Hor. C. 1, 9, 6:

(nidum) ante fores sacras reponit,

Ov. M. 15, 407.— With in and acc.:

uvas in vasa nova,

Col. 12, 16:

data sunt legatis, quae in aerarium reposuerant,

Val. Max. 4, 3, 9:

anulos in locellum,

id. 7, 8, 9; cf.:

mergum altius in terram,

Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 205.—

Trop., to place, put, set; to place, count, reckon among:

in vestrā mansuetudine atque humanitate causam totam repono,

Cic. Sull. 33, 92:

vos meam defensionem in aliquo artis loco reponetis,

id. de Or. 2, 48, 198:

suos hortatur, ut spem omnem in virtute reponant,

Caes. B. C. 2, 41:

in se omnem spem,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 12, 36:

nihil spei in caritate civium,

Liv. 1, 49; 2, 39:

salutem ac libertatem in illorum armis dextrisque,

id. 27, 45:

verum honorem non in splendore titulorum, sed in judiciis hominum,

Plin. Pan. 84, 8; id. Ep. 1, 3, 3:

plus in duce quam in exercitu,

Tac. G. 30; Liv. 24, 37:

plus in deo quam in viribus reponentes,

Just. 24, 8, 2:

fiduciam in re reponere,

Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 16; 1, 8, 14:

ea facta, quae in obscuritate et silentio reponuntur,

id. ib. 1, 8, 6:

quos equidem in deorum immortalium coetu ac numero repono,

place, count, reckon among, Cic. Sest. 68, 143; so,

sidera in deorum numero,

id. N. D. 2, 21, 54; cf. id. ib. 3, 19, 47 Mos. N. cr.:

Catulum in clarissimorum hominum numero,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 90, § 210: aliquem in suis, Antonius ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1.— With in and acc.:

homines morte deletos in deos,

Cic. N. D. 1, 15, 38:

in deorum numerum reponemus,

id. ib. 3, 19, 47:

Isocratem hunc in numerum non repono,

id. Opt. Gen. 6, 17:

aliquid in fabularum numerum,

id. Inv. 1, 26, 39; and:

hanc partem in numerum,

id. ib. 1, 51, 97:

in ejus sinum rem publicam,

Suet. Aug. 94.—Hence, rĕpŏsĭ-tus ( rĕpostus), a, um, P. a.

Remote, distant (syn. remotus;

very rare): penitusque repostas Massylum gentes,

Verg. A. 6, 59:

terrae,

id. ib. 3, 364:

populi,

Sil. 3, 325:

convalles,

App. M. 4, p. 145, 6.—

Laid aside, stored up:

spes,

Vulg. Col. 1, 5:

corona justitiae,

id. 2, Tim. 4, 8.

ulna, ae, f. [Gr. ôlenê; Goth. aleina; Germ. Elle; cf. Ellenbogen; Engl. ell], the elbow.

Lit., Plin. 11, 43, 98, § 243.—

Transf.

Poet., in gen., the arm:

tremula patris dormientis in ulnā,

Cat. 17, 13; Prop. 2, 18 (3, 10), 9; Ov. M. 7, 847; 9, 652; 11, 63; Luc. 3, 664; Sil. 3, 457; 10, 499; Stat. S. 5, 3, 266 al.—

As a measure of length.

An ell, Verg. E. 3, 105; id. G. 3, 355; Hor. Epod. 4, 8; Ov. M. 8, 748. —

As much as a man can clasp with both arms, a fathom, Plin. 16, 40, 76, § 202.