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  • 1 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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  • 2 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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  • 3 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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