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1 vallus
1. I.In gen. (rare).a.For supporting vines, Verg. G. 1, 264; 2, 25.—b.A pole set with teeth and fastened to a cart, pushed forwards by oxen placed behind;II.used by the Gauls for cutting grain,
Plin. 18, 30, 72, § 296 (in Pall. 7, 2, called vehiculum).—Esp., in milit. lang., a stake, palisade, used for intrenchment (freq. and class.): qui labor, quantus agminis;B.ferre plus dimidiati mensis cibaria... ferre vallum, etc.,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37:Scipio Africanus militem cottidie in opere habuit et triginta dierum frumentum, ad septenos vallos ferre cogebat,
Liv. Epit. 57: virgulta vallo caedendo, id. 25, 36, 5:vallum cae dere et parare jubet,
id. 33, 5, 4:vallum secum ferente milite,
id. 33, 6, 1:quo qui intraverant, se ipsi acutissimis vallis induebant: hos cippos appellabant,
Caes. B. G. 7, 73.—Transf.1.Collect. for vallum, a rampart set with palisades, Caes. B. C. 3, 63; Auct. B. Alex. 2, 3; Tib. 1, 10, 9.—2. 2.vallus, i, f. dim. [contr. for vannulus, from vannus], a little winnowing-van for grain or provender, Varr. R. R. 1, 52, 2; 1, 23, 5; id. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 166.
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