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  • 1 columna

        columna ae, f    [2 CEL-], a column, pillar, post: columnam efficere: columnae templa sustinent: ad perpendiculum columnas exigere. — Poet.: ne pede proruas Stantem columnam, i. e. destroy the city, H.—Esp.. Columna Maenia, in the Forum Romanum, beside which sat the tresviri capitales; hence, ad columnam pervenire: ad columnam adhaerescere, i. e. fall into the hands of the jailers.—As the sign of a bookseller's shop: non concessere columnae, H.—Since pillars were set up for landmarks: Columnae Protei (i. e. fines Aegypti), V.: Herculis columnae, i. e. Calpe and Abyla, Ta.
    * * *
    column/pillar (building/monument/pedestal/waterclock), post/prop; portico (pl.); stanchion (press/ballista); water-spout; pillar of fire; penis (rude)

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  • 2 columnaris

    columnaris, columnare ADJ
    rising in form of a pillar, pillar-like, columnar

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  • 3 columen

    cŏlŭmen, ĭnis, n., and contr. cul-men, mis, n. [root cel- of excello; cf.: celsus, culmus, calamus, collis], lit., that which rises in height, is prominent, projects; hence the point, top, summit, ridge.
    I.
    Form columen, inis, n. (only this form is used by Plautus, v. Ritschl, prol. ad Plaut. p. 65).
    A.
    An elevated object, a pillar, column: ego vitam agam sub altis Phrygiae columinibus, the lofty buildings, or perh. the mountain-heights, Cat. 63, 71 Ellis ad loc.; and of a pillar of fire: Phoebi fax, tristis nunt a belli, quae magnum ad columen flammato ardore volabat, like an ascending column, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 11, 18.—
    B.
    The highest part or top of an object, e. g. of a wall; the coping; Fr. le chaperon, Cato, R. R. 15, 1; of a building, a ridge, a roof, a gable:

    in turribus et columinibus villae,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 1:

    aulae,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 1000; id. Thyest. 54 Gron.; so of the Capitol, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 20, and of the culmination of heavenly bodies: oritur Canicula cum Cancro, in columen venit cum Geminis, Nigid. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 218. —
    2.
    Trop., the top, crown, summit, first, chief, the height, etc.:

    columen amicorum Antonii, Cotyla Varius,

    Cic. Phil. 13, 12, 26:

    pars haec vitae jam pridem pervenit ad columen,

    Plin. 15, 15, 17, § 57; Col. 3, 4, 3:

    audaciae,

    the crown of impudence, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 211.—
    G.
    An elevated object that supports, sustains something; in archit., the top of a gable-end, a gable pillar, a prop, Vitr. 4, 2, 1; 4, 7, 5.—Esp. freq.,
    2.
    Trop., a support, prop, stay:

    familiae,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 57; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 76, § 176:

    senati, praesidium popli,

    Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 6; cf. id. Ep. 2, 2, 7:

    rei publicae,

    Cic. Sest. 8, 19; Curt. 9, 6, 8:

    imperii Romani, Div 38, 51, 3: regni Ausonii,

    Sil. 15, 385:

    Asiae,

    Sen. Troad. 6:

    rerum mearum (Maecenas),

    Hor. C. 2, 17, 4:

    doctrinarum, artium (Varro et Nigidius),

    Gell. 19, 14, 1; Col. 3, 4, 3.—
    II.
    culmen, ĭnis, n. (in Cic. only once; cf. the foll. B.; not in Cat., Lucr., or Hor.; in gen. first freq. since the Aug. per.).
    * A.
    Any thing high; poet., of the stalk of a bean, Ov. F. 4, 734.—
    B.
    The top, summit, e. g. of a building, a roof, gable, cupola, etc.:

    columen in summo fastigio culminis,

    Vitr. 4, 2, 1; Ov. M. 1, 295; 1, 289; Verg. E. 1, 69:

    tecta domorum,

    id. A. 2, 446; 2, 458; 4, 186:

    culmina hominum, deorum,

    i. e. of houses and temples, id. ib. 4, 671; Liv. 27, 4, 11; 42, 3, 7.—Of the dome of heaven, * Cic. Arat. 26. —Of mountain summits:

    Alpium,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 2:

    Tarpeium,

    Suet. Dom. 23.—Of the crown of the head of men, Liv. 1, 34, 9.—Of the top of the prow of a ship, Luc. 3, 709.—
    2.
    Trop., the summit, acme, height, point of culmination (perh. not ante-Aug.):

    a summo culmine fortunae ad ultimum finem,

    Liv. 45, 9, 7:

    principium culmenque (columenque, Sillig) omnium rerum pretii margaritae tenent,

    Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 106:

    ruit alta a culmine Troja,

    Verg. A. 2, 290 (Hom. Il. 13, 772: kat akrês); cf. id. ib. 2, 603:

    de summo culmine lapsus,

    Luc. 8, 8:

    regale,

    Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 64. pastorale, id. B. Get. 355:

    honoris,

    App. Flor. 3.

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  • 4 columnaris

    cŏlumnāris, e, adj. [columna], rising in the form of a pillar:

    lux,

    a pillar of fire, Prud. Ham. 476 (in imitation of the Heb., Exod. 13, 21); cf. columnifer.

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  • 5 columnifer

    columnifera, columniferum ADJ

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  • 6 columnifer

    cŏlumnĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj. [columna-fero], column-bearing:

    radius,

    a pillar of fire, Prud. Cath. 9, 51; cf. columnaris.

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  • 7 prester

    prēster, ēris, m., = prêstêr [burning].
    I.
    A fiery whirlwind, which descends in the form of a pillar of fire, a water-spout, sand-spout:

    presteras Graici quos ab re nominitarunt, etc.,

    Lucr. 6, 424:

    turbo ardentior accensusque dum furit, prester vocatur, amburens contacta pariter, et proterens,

    Plin. 2, 48, 50, § 133: spiritus cum majore vi torti sunt, fit procella terrestris, et a Graecis prester nomen accepit, App. de Mundo, p. 62 fin. —
    II.
    A kind of serpent, whose bite causes a burning thirst:

    prester quem percusserit, distenditur, enormique corpulentiā necatur extuberatus,

    Sol. 27, 32:

    torridus prester,

    Luc. 9, 791; Plin. 20, 20, 81 § 210; 24, 13, 73, § 117.

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  • 8 columna

    cŏlumna, ae, f. [root cel- of excello; v. columen, of which it is orig. a collat. form].
    A.
    A projecting object, a column, pillar, post (very freq.), Vitr. 4, 1, 1 sq.; 3, 3; Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 11:

    columnae et templa et porticus sustinent, tamen habent non plus utilitatis quam dignitatis,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 46, 180; id. Verr. 2, 1, 51, §§ 133 and 134; Quint. 5, 13, 40:

    columnae Doricae, Ionicae, Tuscanicae, Corinthiae, Atticae,

    Plin. 36, 22, 56, § 178 sq.; Vitr. 4, 1, 1 sqq.: Rostrata, a column ornamented with beaks of ships, erected in honor of Duellius, the conqueror of the Carthaginians, Quint. 1, 7, 12 Spald.; fragments of the inscription on it are yet extant, v. in the Appendix: Maenia, also absol. Columna, a pillory in the Forum Romanum, where thieves, criminal slaves, and debtors were judged and punished, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 50 Ascon.— Absol.: ad columnam pervenire. Cic. Clu. 13, 39:

    adhaerescere ad columnam,

    id. Sest. 8, 18; cf. Dict. of Antiq. s. v. columna.— Plur.:

    columnae, as the sign of a bookseller's shop,

    Hor. A. P 373 Orell. ad loc.—From the use of pillars to designate boundaries of countries:

    Columnae Protei = fines Aegypti,

    Verg. A. 11, 262; and:

    Columnae Herculis, i. e. Calpe et Abyla,

    Mel. 1, 5, 3; 2, 6, 8; Plin. 3, prooem. § 4; Tac. G. 34.—Prov.:

    incurrere amentem in columnas,

    Cic. Or. 67, 224.—
    * 2.
    Trop., a pillar, support; of Augustus, Hor. C. 1, 35, 14.—
    3.
    Transf., of objects resembling a pillar; so,
    a.
    Of the arm (comice):

    ecce autem aedificat: columnam mento suffigit suo,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 54. —
    b.
    A water-spout, Lucr. 6, 426; 6, 433; Plin. 2, 49, 50, § 134.—
    c.
    Of fire, a meteor, Sen. Q. N. 7, 20, 2; cf.

    of the pillar of cloud and of fire which guided the Exodus,

    Vulg. Exod. 13, 21 sq. —
    d.
    Membrum virile, Mart. 6, 49; 11, 51; Auct. Priap. 9, 8.—
    e.
    Narium recta pars eo quod aequaliter sit in longitudine et rotunditate porrecta, columna vocatur, Isid. Orig. 11, 1, 48.—
    * B.
    The top, summit; so only once of the dome of heaven, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 21; cf. columen.

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