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that a tax was raised from it as from a mine

  • 1 metallum

    mĕtallum, i, n., = metallon, a mine or quarry, of gold, silver, iron, or stone; voc. metalle, as if from metallus, Spart. Pesc. Nig. 126.
    I.
    Lit., the place where metals are dug, a mine:

    metalla vetera intermissa recoluit, et nova multis locis instituit,

    Liv. 39, 24:

    sandaracae,

    Vitr. 7, 7, 5:

    aurifera,

    gold-mines, Luc. 3, 209:

    silicum,

    stone-quarry, id. 4, 304:

    miniarium,

    Plin. 33, 7, 40, § 118:

    praeter annuum, quod ex metallis regiis capia, vectigal,

    Liv. 42, 12: herba tantae suavitatis, ut metallum esse coeperit, a mine, i. e. that a tax was raised from it as from a mine, Plin. 21, 7, 20, § 44: damnare in metallum, to condemn to labor in the mines or quarries:

    damnatus in metallum,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 8:

    condemnare aliquem ad metalla,

    Suet. Calig. 27:

    mediocrium delictorum poenae sunt metallum, ludus, deportatio,

    Paul. Sent. 5, 17, 3; 5, 3, 5:

    dare aliquem in metallum,

    Dig. 48, 19, 8:

    metallo plecti,

    ib. 47, 11, 7:

    puniri,

    ib. 48, 13, 6.—
    II. 1.
    A metal, as gold, silver, or iron:

    ubicumque una inventa vena argenti est, non procul invenitur alia. Hoc quidem et in omni fere materia: unde metalla Graeci videntur dixisse,

    Plin. 33. 6, 31, §

    96: auri,

    Verg. A. 8, 445:

    potior metallis libertas,

    i. e. gold and silver, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 39:

    aeris,

    Verg. G. 2, 165:

    pejoraque saecula ferri temporibus, quorum... nomen a nullo posuit natura metallo,

    Juv. 13, 30.—
    2.
    Other things dug from the earth.
    (α).
    Marble, Stat. S. 4, 3, 98.—
    (β).
    Precious stone:

    radiantium metalla gemmarum,

    Pacat. Pan. 4.—
    (γ).
    Chalk:

    admiscetur creta... Campani negant alicam confici sine eo metallo posse,

    Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 114.—
    (δ).
    Sulphur:

    utque est ingenium vivacis metalli (sulphuris),

    App. M. 9. p. 228, 23.—
    (ε).
    Salt:

    metallum fragile,

    Prud. Hamart. 744.—
    III.
    Trop., metal, stuff, material:

    saecula meliore metallo,

    Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 184:

    mores meliore metallo,

    id. Cons. Mall. Theod. 137.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > metallum

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