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  • 1 līgnum

        līgnum ī, n    [1 LEG-], gathered wood, firewood (only in plur.): ligna circumdare, ignem subicere: ignem ex lignis viridibus fieri iussit: ligna super foco reponens, H.—Prov.. In silvam ligna ferre, i. e. carry coals to Newcastle, H.— Timber, wood: hos lignum stabat ad usūs, i. e. to make tables, Iu.— A piece of wood, something made of wood: fisso ligno, spearshaft, V.: leges incidere ligno, a wooden table, H.: mobile, a puppet, H.: supervacuum, writing-tablet, Iu.: dolato Confisus ligno, plank, Iu.— A tree: nautis venerabile, V.: triste, H.
    * * *
    wood; firewood; timber; "stump"; gallows/cross; tree of the cross; staves (pl.)

    Latin-English dictionary > līgnum

  • 2 orbis

    orbis, is (nom. orbs, Ven. Carm. 8, 5. — Abl. regul. orbe;

    but orbi,

    Lucr. 5, 74:

    ex orbi,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 16; Rutil. ap. Charis. p. 112 P.: orbi terrae, in the meaning in the world, Cic. Sest. 30, 66; so,

    orbi terrarum,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 38, § 82 Halm; id. Dom. 10, 24; id. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 112 P.), m. [etym. dub.; perh. akin to Sanscr. dhvar, bend, twist], any thing of a circular shape, a ring, round surface, disk, hoop, orbit, orb, a circle (class.; cf.: circus, circulus, gyrus, spira).
    I.
    Lit.:

    in orbem torquere,

    Cic. Univ. 7:

    curvare aliquid in orbem,

    Ov. M. 2, 715:

    certumque equitavit in orbem,

    id. ib. 12, 468.—Of a ring:

    et digitum justo commodus orbe teras,

    fit exactly, Ov. Am. 2, 15, 6:

    unionum,

    roundness, Plin. 9, 35, 56, § 113.—Of a circle formed by men:

    ut in orbem consisterent,

    place themselves in a circle, form a circle, Caes. B. G. 5, 33:

    cum illi, orbe facto, se defenderent,

    id. ib. 4, 37:

    orbem volventes suos increpans,

    Liv. 4, 28:

    in orbem pugnare,

    id. 28, 22, 15:

    in orbem sese stantibus equis defendere,

    id. 28, 33, 15: stella (phaethôn) eundem duodecim signorum orbem annis duodecim conficit, the zodiac, Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 52:

    lacteus,

    the Milky Way, id. Rep. 6, 16, 16.—Of the orbit of a heavenly body:

    sidera circulos suos orbesque conficiunt,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 15, 15.—Of a serpent, the windings, coils:

    immensis orbibus angues Incumbunt pelago,

    Verg. A. 2, 204.—Of a circular surface or disk:

    orbis mensae,

    a round table-top, Ov. H. 17, 87; cf. Juv. 11, 122.—Also, simply orbes, a round table, Mart. 2, 43; Juv. 1, 137.—Of a quoit or discus:

    ictus ab orbe,

    Ov. Ib. 590.—Of the scale of a balance:

    instabilis natat alterno depressior orbe,

    Tib. 4, 1, 44.—Of a mirror:

    addidit et nitidum sacratis crinibus orbem,

    Mart. 9, 18, 5.—Of a shield:

    illa (hasta) per orbem Aere cavum triplici... Transiit,

    Verg. A. 10, 783; Petr. 89.—Of a mosaic pavement of rounded pieces [p. 1276] of marble, Juv. 11, 175.—Of a scale, one side of a balance, Tib. 4, 1, 44.—Of the millstones of an oil-mill, Cato, R. R. 22.—Of the wooden disk placed over olives in pressing them, Cato, R. R. 18.—Of the hoop or tire of a wheel:

    rotarum orbes circumacti,

    Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 52.—Of the wheel itself:

    undaque jam tergo ferratos sustinet orbes,

    Verg. G. 3, 361.—Hence, the wheel of fortune, Tib. 1, 5, 70; Ov. Tr. 5, 8, 7; id. P. 2, 3, 56.—Of the socket of the eye:

    inanem luminis orbem,

    Ov. M. 14, 200.—Of the eye itself:

    gemino lumen ab orbe venit,

    Ov. Am. 1, 8, 16:

    ardentes oculorum orbes ad moenia torsit,

    Verg. A. 12, 670.—Of the sun's disk or orb:

    lucidus orbis,

    Verg. G. 1, 459.—Of the moon's disk or orb:

    quater junctis implevit cornibus orbem Luna, quater plenum tenuata retexuit orbem,

    Ov. M. 7, 530.—Of the circle of the world, the world, the universe:

    Juppiter arce suā totum cum spectet in orbem,

    Ov. F. 1, 85:

    renatus,

    the new-born day, Sil. 5, 56: terrarum or terrae, the circle or orb of the earth, the world (since the ancients regarded the earth as a circular plane or disk):

    permittitur infinita potestas orbis terrarum,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 13, 33:

    ager Campanus orbis terrae pulcherrimus,

    id. ib. 2, 28, 76; id. Sest. 30, 66:

    cunctus ob Italiam terrarum clauditur orbis?

    Verg. A. 1, 233; cf. id. ib. 7, 224.—Also, simply orbis (so mostly poet.):

    hic, ubi nunc Roma est orbis caput, arbor et herbae,

    Ov. F. 5, 93:

    unus,

    Juv. 10, 168; 4, 148:

    universus,

    Vulg. Luc. 2, 1; id. Apoc. 12, 9.—Hence, a country, region, territory:

    Eoo dives ab orbe redit,

    the East, Ov. F. 3, 466:

    Assyrius,

    Juv. 2, 108:

    noster,

    Plin. 12, 12, 26, § 45.— A kind of fish, Plin. 32, 2, 5, § 14 Sillig; cf. Isid. Orig. 12, 6, 6.—
    II.
    Trop., a circle.
    A.
    Of things that return at a certain period of time, a rotation, round, circuit:

    ut idem in singulos annos orbis volveretur,

    Liv. 3, 10:

    insigne regium in orbem per omnes iret,

    in rotation, id. 3, 36:

    orbis hic in re publicā est conversus,

    the circle of political changes, Cic. Att. 2, 9, 1.—
    B.
    Orbis doctrinae, an encyclopœdia: orbis ille doctrinae quam Graeci enkuklion paideian vocant, Quint. 1, 10, 1.—
    C.
    Of speech, a rounding off, roundness, rotundity:

    circuitum, et quasi orbem verborum conficere,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 51, 198:

    orationis,

    id. Or. 71, 234:

    historia non tam finitos numeros quam orbem quendam contextumque desiderat,

    Quint. 9, 4, 129.—
    D.
    A circle or cycle of thought:

    sententiae Pyrrhonis in hunc orbem quem circumscripsimus, incidere non possunt,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 8, 23; cf.:

    circa vilem patulumque orbem,

    Hor. A. P. 132.—
    E.
    Esp.: in orbem ire, to go the rounds, go around:

    quinque dierum spatio finiebatur imperium ac per omnes in orbem ibant,

    in turn, Liv. 1, 17, 6; 3, 36, 3.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > orbis

  • 3 abacus

    ăbăcus, i (according to Prisc. 752 P. also ăbax, ăcis; cf. id. p. 688), m.,=abax, akos, prop. a square tublet; hence, in partic.,
    I.
    A sideboard, the top of which was made of marble, sometimes of silver, gold, or other precious material, chiefly used for the display of gold and silver vessels, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 16, § 35; 2, 4, 25, § 57; id. Tusc. 5, 21, 61; Varr. L. L. 9, § 46 Mūll.; Plin. 37, 2, 6, § 14; Juv. 3, 2-0-4:

    perh. also called mensae Delphicae,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 59 init. Zumpt; Mart. 12, 67. Accord. to Liv. 39, 6, 7, and Plin. 34, 3, 8, § 14, Cn. Manlius Vulso flrst brought them from Asia to Rome, B.C. 187, in his triumph over the Galatae; cf. Becker, Gall. 2, p. 258 (2d edit.).—
    II.
    A gaming-board, divided into compurtments, for playing with dice or counters, Suet. Ner. 22; Macr. S. 1, 5.—
    III.
    A counting-table, covered with sand or dust, and used for arithmetical computation, Pers. 1, 131; App. Mag. p. 284; cf. Becker, Gall. 2, p. 65. —
    IV.
    A wooden tray, Cato, R. R. 10, 4.—
    V.
    A painted panel or square compariment in the wall or ceiling of a chamber, Vitr. 7, 3, 10; Plin. 33, 12, 56, § 159; 35, 1, 1, § 3, and 35, 6, 13, § 32.—
    VI.
    In architecture, a fiat, square stone on the top of a column, immediately under the architrare, Vitr. 3, 5, 5 sq.; 4, 1, 11 sq.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > abacus

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