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1 acumen
ăcūmĕn, ĭnis, n. [acuo], a point to prick or sting with; diff. fr. cacumen, which designates merely the summit or extremity of a thing, Doed. Syn. 2, 108.I.Lit.: tum clupei resonunt et ferri stridit acumen, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 838 P. (Ann. v. 369 ed. Vahl.):II.coni,
Lucr. 4, 431:nasi,
id. 6, 1193 (i.e. the pointed contraction of the nose before death; cf. Bentl. ad Hor. S. 1, 3, 29):stili,
Cic. de Or. 1, 33:ferrum Diana volanti abstulerat jaculo: lignum sine acumine venit,
Ov. M. 8, 353; 3, 84.—Hence, also, the sting of an animal:scorpii,
Cic. Arat. 685:—auspicium ex acuminibus, a military omen of victory, when the spears stuck in the ground suddenly begin to burn or shine at the points, Cic. Div. 2, 36, 77, and id. N. D. 2, 3; cf. Liv. 22, 1; 43, 13.—In Plin., of the taste: sharpness or pungency, 14, 20, 25.—Fig., of the mind, like acies.A.Acuteness, shrewdness, keenness, acumen:B.sermonis leporem, ingeniorum acumen, dicendi copiam,
Cic. Fl. 4; so Nep. Alc. 11; Plin. 2, 27, 27, § 97.—Also without a gen.:ubi est acumen tuum?
Cic. Tusc. 1, 6; so Lucr. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 2: Empedocles an Stertinium deliret acumen, Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 20.— Poet. also in plur.:serus Graecis admovit acumina chartis,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 161.—
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