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  • 1 malleolus

    mallĕŏlus, i, m. dim. [malleus], a small hammer or mallet.
    I.
    Lit., Cels. 8, 3, 29; Vulg. Jud. 4, 21:

    verba mea sunt quasi malleus conterens petram,

    id. Jer. 23, 29.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    A hammershaped slip, a mallet-shoot for planting:

    malleolus novellus est palmes, innatus prioris anni flagello, cognominatusque a similitudine rei, quod in ea parte, quae deciditur, ex vetere sarmento prominens utrinque, malleoli speciem praebet,

    Col. 3, 6, 3; cf. Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 156:

    malleolos pangere,

    to set in, plant, Col. 3, 3, 12; so,

    deponere,

    id. ib.:

    conserere,

    id. 3, 14, 2:

    demergere,

    id. 3, 18, 2:

    serere sulco, vel scrobe,

    Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 169.—
    B.
    In milit. lang., a kind of fire-dart, Amm. 23, 4, 14; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 135 Müll.:

    malleoli, manipuli spartei pice contecti, qui incensi aut in muros aut in testudines jaciuntur,

    Non. 556, 11 sq.: partim malleolos, partim fasces sarmentorum incensos supra vallum, etc., Sisenn. ap. Non. 556, 13:

    malleolos et faces ad inflammandam urbem comparare,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 32; cf. id. Mil. 24, 64: faces taedamque et malleolos stupae illitos pice parari jubet, Liv 42, 64, 3; cf. id. 38, 6, 2. —
    C.
    The tongue of a shoe-buckle:

    malleoli ossei vel aerei,

    Isid. 19, 34, 10.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > malleolus

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