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A round ornament upon the capitals of Doric columns

  • 1 anulus

    1.
    ānŭlus (not ann-), i, m. [2. anus, like circulus from circum, not a dim.], a ring, esp. for the finger, a finger-ring; and for sealing, a seal-ring, signet-ring.
    I.
    Lit.:

    ille suum anulum opposuit,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 76:

    de digito anulum Detraho,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 37; id. Ad. 3, 2, 49; id. Hec. 5, 3, 31 et saep.; Lucr. 1, 312; 6, 1008; 6, 1014:

    (Gyges) anulum detraxit,

    Cic. Off. 3, 9, 38:

    gemmatus,

    Liv. 1, 11; Suet. Ner. 46; id. Caes. 33; id. Tib. 73 et saep.:

    anulo tabulas obsignare,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 67:

    sigilla anulo imprimere,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 26, 85; id. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4; Plin. 33, 1, 5 sqq. et saep.—The right to wear a gold ring was possessed, in the time of the Republic, only by the knights (equites); hence, equestris, * Hor. S. 2, 7, 53:

    anulum invenit = eques factus est,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 76.—So also jus anulorum = dignitas equestris, Suet. Caes. 33:

    donatus anulo aureo,

    id. ib. 39; so id. Galb. 10; 14; id. Vit. 12 al.; cf. Mayor ad Juv. 7, 89; Smith. Dict. Antiq.—
    II.
    Of other articles in the form of rings.
    A.
    A ring for curtains:

    velares anuli,

    Plin. 13, 9, 18, § 62. —
    B.
    A link of a chain, Plin. 34, 15, 43, § 150; cf. Mart. 2, 29.— Irons for the feet, fetters:

    anulus cruribus aptus,

    Mart. 14, 169.—
    C.
    A curled lock of hair, a ringlet:

    comarum anulus,

    Mart. 2, 66.—
    D.
    A round ornament upon the capitals of Doric columns:

    anuli columnarum,

    Vitr. 4, 3.—
    E.
    Anuli virgei, rings made of willow rods, Plin. 15, 29, 37, § 124.
    2.
    ānŭlus, i, m. dim. [1. anus], the posteriors, fundament, Cato, R. R. 159.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > anulus

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