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fascĭa ( fascea), ae, f. [kindred with fascis], a band, bandage, swathe, girth, fillet.

Prop. (to bind up diseased parts of the body; to wrap round the feet to prevent the boots from rubbing them; to bind under the breasts of women; a headband set with pearls, etc.;

syn.: redimiculum, vitta, infula, diadema): devinctus erat fasciis,

Cic. Brut. 60, 217; Suet. Dom. 17; id. Galb. 21; Gell. 16, 3, 4; cf.:

fasciis crura vestiuntur,

Quint. 11, 3, 144: cum vincirentur pedes fasciis, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 537, 5; id. Att. 2, 3, 1 (cf. with Val. Max. 6, 2, 7); Plin. 8, 57, 82, § 221; Dig. 34, 2, 25 (with pedules); Lampr. Alex. Sev. 40 al.:

carnem praependentem fascia substringere,

Suet. Galb. 21:

brachio lanis fasciisque obvoluto,

id. Dom. 17:

inflatum circa fascia pectus eat,

Ov. A. A. 3, 274; Mart. 14, 134:

vides illum Scythiae regem, insigni capitis decorum? si vis illum aestimare, fasciam solve: multum mali sub illa latet,

Sen. Ep. 80 fin.; so of a diadem, Suet. Caes. 79:

puero fasciis opus est, cunis, incunabulis,

i. e. swaddling-cloths, Plaut. Truc. 5, 13:

somniasse se, ovum pendere ex fascia lecti sui cubicularis,

a bed-girth, Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134; Mart. 5, 62, 5; 14, 159:

uvas sole siccatas junci fasciis involvit,

bands of rushes, mats, Plin. 15, 17, 18, § 66: nitor, qualem Bruttia praestabat calidi tibi fascia visci, plaster, Juv. 9, 14.— Prov.: non es nostrae fasciae, i. e. of our rank or condition, Petr. 46.—

Transf.

The casing of a door, Varr. ap. Non. 451, 20; and 86, 10.—

In archit., a wreath round a pillar, a listel, Vitr. 3, 3 med. —

A streak of cloud in the sky:

nil color hic caeli, nil fascia nigra minatur,

Juv. 14, 294.—

A zone of the earth:

orbi terrae in quinque zonas, sive melius fascias dico, discernitur,

Mart. Cap. 6, §§ 602, 607.

fascĭa ( fascea), ae, f. [kindred with fascis], a band, bandage, swathe, girth, fillet.

Prop. (to bind up diseased parts of the body; to wrap round the feet to prevent the boots from rubbing them; to bind under the breasts of women; a headband set with pearls, etc.;

syn.: redimiculum, vitta, infula, diadema): devinctus erat fasciis,

Cic. Brut. 60, 217; Suet. Dom. 17; id. Galb. 21; Gell. 16, 3, 4; cf.:

fasciis crura vestiuntur,

Quint. 11, 3, 144: cum vincirentur pedes fasciis, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 537, 5; id. Att. 2, 3, 1 (cf. with Val. Max. 6, 2, 7); Plin. 8, 57, 82, § 221; Dig. 34, 2, 25 (with pedules); Lampr. Alex. Sev. 40 al.:

carnem praependentem fascia substringere,

Suet. Galb. 21:

brachio lanis fasciisque obvoluto,

id. Dom. 17:

inflatum circa fascia pectus eat,

Ov. A. A. 3, 274; Mart. 14, 134:

vides illum Scythiae regem, insigni capitis decorum? si vis illum aestimare, fasciam solve: multum mali sub illa latet,

Sen. Ep. 80 fin.; so of a diadem, Suet. Caes. 79:

puero fasciis opus est, cunis, incunabulis,

i. e. swaddling-cloths, Plaut. Truc. 5, 13:

somniasse se, ovum pendere ex fascia lecti sui cubicularis,

a bed-girth, Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134; Mart. 5, 62, 5; 14, 159:

uvas sole siccatas junci fasciis involvit,

bands of rushes, mats, Plin. 15, 17, 18, § 66: nitor, qualem Bruttia praestabat calidi tibi fascia visci, plaster, Juv. 9, 14.— Prov.: non es nostrae fasciae, i. e. of our rank or condition, Petr. 46.—

Transf.

The casing of a door, Varr. ap. Non. 451, 20; and 86, 10.—

In archit., a wreath round a pillar, a listel, Vitr. 3, 3 med. —

A streak of cloud in the sky:

nil color hic caeli, nil fascia nigra minatur,

Juv. 14, 294.—

A zone of the earth:

orbi terrae in quinque zonas, sive melius fascias dico, discernitur,

Mart. Cap. 6, §§ 602, 607.

ōra, ae, f. [kindred with Sanscr. avāra, ripa citerior fluminis], the extremity of a thing; the border, brim, edge, margin, end, boundary.

Lit.

In gen. (class.; syn.: limbus, fimbria, instita, margo): omnes avidi spectant ad carceris oras, at the barriers, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107 (Ann. v. 88 Vahl.):

oras pocula circum,

Lucr. 4, 12:

(clipei),

Verg. A. 10, 243:

vestimentorum,

Fest. p. 182 Müll.; Vulg. Exod. 26, 10; id. Hag. 2, 13:

gemmae,

Plin. 37, 10, 66, § 180:

vulneris,

Cels. 5, 26, 23:

aether, extrema ora et determinatio mundi,

Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 101. cf.:

regio nes, quarum nulla esset ora, nulla extremitas,

id. Fin. 2, 31, 102.—

In partic., the coast, sea-coast (syn.:

litus, ripa): Graeciae,

Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 1:

Asiae,

Nep. Alc. 5, 6:

maritima,

Caes. B. G. 3, 8:

Jordanis,

Vulg. 1 Macc. 9, 43;

but transf.: ora maritima,

the inhabitants of the coast, people of the maritime districts, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 23, 67. So, jam Misenensem classem et pulcherrimam Campaniam oram descivisse, Tac. H. 3, 60.—

Transf.

A region, clime, country:

quacumque in orā ac parte terrarum,

Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 164:

gelida, Hor C. 1, 26, 4: conexa arbustorum ratio est, quas in oras debeant spectare,

Plin. 17, 2, 2, 19 (al. horas):

Trojae qui primus ab oris Italiam... venit,

Verg. A. 1, 1; cf. id. ib. 3, 97; 10, 706.—

Poet.: luminis orae, the world, the earth, life, light: tu produxisti nos intra luminis oras, Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64 (Ann. v. 118 Vahl.); cf.: sum (i. e. eum) quae dederit in luminis oras, id. Fragm. ap. Fest. s. v. sum, p. 298 Müll. (Ann. v. 165 Vahl.); Lucr. 1, 22:

inde enascitur atque oras in luminis exit,

id. 1, 170; 1, 179; cf. id. 5, 224; 781:

quem Rhea sacerdos Furtivum partu sub luminis edidit oras,

Verg. A. 7, 660:

sponte suā quae se tollunt in luminis oras,

id. G. 2, 47: Acherontis orae, the lower regions:

animas Acheruntis in oras Ducere,

Lucr. 6, 763.—

A zone:

globum terrae duabus oris distantibus habitabilem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 68.—

A rope or cable by which a ship or boat is fastened to the shore; opp. ancoralia, the anchor-cables:

cum alii resolutis oris in ancoras evecti tenentur, alii, ne quid teneat, ancoralia incidunt,

Liv. 22, 19, 10 Weissenb. ad loc.:

ne hostes cum suis simul inrumperent, trahunt scalas orasque et ancoras praecidunt,

id. 28, 36, 11; cf.:

sublatae sunt ancorae, solvimus oram, profecti sumus,

Quint. 4, 2, 41; Ep. ad Tryph. 3.—

Trop. (very rare, and only poet.): quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? qs. to unroll the edges of the picture of this war, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.): imitated by Virgil:

aspirate canenti... Et mecum ingentis oras evolvite belli,

Verg. A. 9, 528; cf.

Serv. ad loc.: in luminis oras eruere,

to bring to light, Lucr. 5, 1455.

Ŏra ( Hŏra), ae, f., the name of Hersilia, as a goddess, Ov. M. 14, 851.

ōra, ae, f. [kindred with Sanscr. avāra, ripa citerior fluminis], the extremity of a thing; the border, brim, edge, margin, end, boundary.

Lit.

In gen. (class.; syn.: limbus, fimbria, instita, margo): omnes avidi spectant ad carceris oras, at the barriers, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107 (Ann. v. 88 Vahl.):

oras pocula circum,

Lucr. 4, 12:

(clipei),

Verg. A. 10, 243:

vestimentorum,

Fest. p. 182 Müll.; Vulg. Exod. 26, 10; id. Hag. 2, 13:

gemmae,

Plin. 37, 10, 66, § 180:

vulneris,

Cels. 5, 26, 23:

aether, extrema ora et determinatio mundi,

Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 101. cf.:

regio nes, quarum nulla esset ora, nulla extremitas,

id. Fin. 2, 31, 102.—

In partic., the coast, sea-coast (syn.:

litus, ripa): Graeciae,

Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 1:

Asiae,

Nep. Alc. 5, 6:

maritima,

Caes. B. G. 3, 8:

Jordanis,

Vulg. 1 Macc. 9, 43;

but transf.: ora maritima,

the inhabitants of the coast, people of the maritime districts, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 23, 67. So, jam Misenensem classem et pulcherrimam Campaniam oram descivisse, Tac. H. 3, 60.—

Transf.

A region, clime, country:

quacumque in orā ac parte terrarum,

Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 164:

gelida, Hor C. 1, 26, 4: conexa arbustorum ratio est, quas in oras debeant spectare,

Plin. 17, 2, 2, 19 (al. horas):

Trojae qui primus ab oris Italiam... venit,

Verg. A. 1, 1; cf. id. ib. 3, 97; 10, 706.—

Poet.: luminis orae, the world, the earth, life, light: tu produxisti nos intra luminis oras, Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64 (Ann. v. 118 Vahl.); cf.: sum (i. e. eum) quae dederit in luminis oras, id. Fragm. ap. Fest. s. v. sum, p. 298 Müll. (Ann. v. 165 Vahl.); Lucr. 1, 22:

inde enascitur atque oras in luminis exit,

id. 1, 170; 1, 179; cf. id. 5, 224; 781:

quem Rhea sacerdos Furtivum partu sub luminis edidit oras,

Verg. A. 7, 660:

sponte suā quae se tollunt in luminis oras,

id. G. 2, 47: Acherontis orae, the lower regions:

animas Acheruntis in oras Ducere,

Lucr. 6, 763.—

A zone:

globum terrae duabus oris distantibus habitabilem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 68.—

A rope or cable by which a ship or boat is fastened to the shore; opp. ancoralia, the anchor-cables:

cum alii resolutis oris in ancoras evecti tenentur, alii, ne quid teneat, ancoralia incidunt,

Liv. 22, 19, 10 Weissenb. ad loc.:

ne hostes cum suis simul inrumperent, trahunt scalas orasque et ancoras praecidunt,

id. 28, 36, 11; cf.:

sublatae sunt ancorae, solvimus oram, profecti sumus,

Quint. 4, 2, 41; Ep. ad Tryph. 3.—

Trop. (very rare, and only poet.): quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? qs. to unroll the edges of the picture of this war, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.): imitated by Virgil:

aspirate canenti... Et mecum ingentis oras evolvite belli,

Verg. A. 9, 528; cf.

Serv. ad loc.: in luminis oras eruere,

to bring to light, Lucr. 5, 1455.

Ŏra ( Hŏra), ae, f., the name of Hersilia, as a goddess, Ov. M. 14, 851.

ōra, ae, f. [kindred with Sanscr. avāra, ripa citerior fluminis], the extremity of a thing; the border, brim, edge, margin, end, boundary.

Lit.

In gen. (class.; syn.: limbus, fimbria, instita, margo): omnes avidi spectant ad carceris oras, at the barriers, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107 (Ann. v. 88 Vahl.):

oras pocula circum,

Lucr. 4, 12:

(clipei),

Verg. A. 10, 243:

vestimentorum,

Fest. p. 182 Müll.; Vulg. Exod. 26, 10; id. Hag. 2, 13:

gemmae,

Plin. 37, 10, 66, § 180:

vulneris,

Cels. 5, 26, 23:

aether, extrema ora et determinatio mundi,

Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 101. cf.:

regio nes, quarum nulla esset ora, nulla extremitas,

id. Fin. 2, 31, 102.—

In partic., the coast, sea-coast (syn.:

litus, ripa): Graeciae,

Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 1:

Asiae,

Nep. Alc. 5, 6:

maritima,

Caes. B. G. 3, 8:

Jordanis,

Vulg. 1 Macc. 9, 43;

but transf.: ora maritima,

the inhabitants of the coast, people of the maritime districts, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 23, 67. So, jam Misenensem classem et pulcherrimam Campaniam oram descivisse, Tac. H. 3, 60.—

Transf.

A region, clime, country:

quacumque in orā ac parte terrarum,

Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 164:

gelida, Hor C. 1, 26, 4: conexa arbustorum ratio est, quas in oras debeant spectare,

Plin. 17, 2, 2, 19 (al. horas):

Trojae qui primus ab oris Italiam... venit,

Verg. A. 1, 1; cf. id. ib. 3, 97; 10, 706.—

Poet.: luminis orae, the world, the earth, life, light: tu produxisti nos intra luminis oras, Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64 (Ann. v. 118 Vahl.); cf.: sum (i. e. eum) quae dederit in luminis oras, id. Fragm. ap. Fest. s. v. sum, p. 298 Müll. (Ann. v. 165 Vahl.); Lucr. 1, 22:

inde enascitur atque oras in luminis exit,

id. 1, 170; 1, 179; cf. id. 5, 224; 781:

quem Rhea sacerdos Furtivum partu sub luminis edidit oras,

Verg. A. 7, 660:

sponte suā quae se tollunt in luminis oras,

id. G. 2, 47: Acherontis orae, the lower regions:

animas Acheruntis in oras Ducere,

Lucr. 6, 763.—

A zone:

globum terrae duabus oris distantibus habitabilem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 68.—

A rope or cable by which a ship or boat is fastened to the shore; opp. ancoralia, the anchor-cables:

cum alii resolutis oris in ancoras evecti tenentur, alii, ne quid teneat, ancoralia incidunt,

Liv. 22, 19, 10 Weissenb. ad loc.:

ne hostes cum suis simul inrumperent, trahunt scalas orasque et ancoras praecidunt,

id. 28, 36, 11; cf.:

sublatae sunt ancorae, solvimus oram, profecti sumus,

Quint. 4, 2, 41; Ep. ad Tryph. 3.—

Trop. (very rare, and only poet.): quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? qs. to unroll the edges of the picture of this war, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.): imitated by Virgil:

aspirate canenti... Et mecum ingentis oras evolvite belli,

Verg. A. 9, 528; cf.

Serv. ad loc.: in luminis oras eruere,

to bring to light, Lucr. 5, 1455.

Ŏra ( Hŏra), ae, f., the name of Hersilia, as a goddess, Ov. M. 14, 851.

plāga, ae, f. [cf. plango], = plêgê, a blow, stroke, wound, stripe (class.; syn.: ictus, verbera, vulnus).

Lit.

In gen., Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 51, § 134:

(pueris) dant animos plagae,

Verg. A. 7, 382; Ov. M. 12, 487; 13, 119; Gell. 5, 15, 7:

plagae et vulnera,

Tac. G. 7.—Of the shock of atoms striking together, Cic. Fat. 20, 48; cf. id. ib. 10, 22.—

In partic., a blow which wounds or injures; a stroke, cut, thrust; a wound (class.).

Absol.:

plagis costae callent,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 4:

quem irrigatum plagis pistori dabo,

refreshed by a flogging, id. Ep. 1, 2, 18:

plagas pati,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 13:

plagas perferre,

to bear, receive blows, Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 41:

plagam accipere,

id. Sest. 19, 44:

plagam mortiferam infligere,

to inflict a mortal wound, id. Vatin. 8, 20:

plaga mediocris pestifera,

id. Off. 1, 24, 84:

verbera et plagas repraesentare,

stripes and blows, Suet. Vit. 10:

plagis confectus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 140:

flagelli plaga livorem facit,

Vulg. Ecclus. 28, 21:

plagam curare,

Cels. 5, 26, 24:

suere,

id. 5, 26, 23.—

With gen.:

scorpionum et canum plagas sanare,

Plin. H. N. 23 prooem. 3, § 6.—

Transf., a welt, scar, stripe:

etiam de tergo ducentas plagas praegnatis dabo,

swollen welts, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 10.—

Trop.

A blow, stroke; an injury, misfortune (class.):

illa plaga est injecta petitioni tuae maxima,

that great blow was given, that great obstacle was presented, Cic. Mur. 23, 48:

sic nec oratio plagam gravem facit, nisi, etc.,

makes a deep impression, id. Or. 68, 228:

levior est plaga ab amico, quam a debitore,

loss, injury, id. Fam. 9, 16, 7:

hac ille perculsus plaga non succubuit,

blow, disaster, Nep. Eum. 5.—

A plague, pestilence, infection (late Lat.):

leprae,

Vulg. Lev. 13, 2; id. 2 Reg. 24, 25.—

An affliction, annoyance (late Lat.), Vulg. Deut. 7, 19:

caecitatis,

id. Tob. 2, 13.—

Slaughter, destruction (late Lat.):

percussit eos plagā magnā,

Vulg. 1 Reg. 23, 5; id. 2 Reg. 17, 9.

plăga, ae, f. [root plak- of Gr. plakous; cf. planca, plancus, plānus].

A region, quarter, tract (mostly poet.; v. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 12, where de plagis omnibus is the reading of the best MSS., but pagis of the edd.; but cf. Mütz. ad Curt. p. 516 sq.; and Krebs, Antibarb. p. 869;

syn.: regio, tractus, terra): aetheria,

the ethereal regions, the air, Verg. A. 1, 394: caeli scrutantur plagas, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 13, 30:

et si quem extenta plagarum Quattuor in medio dirimit plaga solis iniqui,

zones, Verg. A. 7, 226:

ardens,

the torrid zone, Sen. Herc. Oet. 67; also called fervida, id ib. 1219: septentrionalis, Plin. 16, 32, 59, § 136:

ea plaga caeli,

Just. 42, 3, 2:

ad orientis plagam,

Curt. 4, 37, 16:

ad orientalem plagam,

on the east, in the eastern quarter, Vulg. Deut. 4, 41:

contra orientalem plagam urbis, id. Josue, 4, 19: ad septentrionalem plagam collis,

side, id. Judic. 7, 1 et saep.—

In partic., a region, district, canton (only in Liv.), Liv. 9, 41, 15.

plăga, ae, f. [root plek-; Gr. plekô, weave, entwine; cf. plecto, plico, du-plex], a hunting-net, snare, gin (class.; syn.: retia, casses).

Lit.:

canes compellunt in plagas lupum,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 35:

tendere plagas,

Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68:

extricata densis Cerva plagis,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 32; Ov. M. 7, 768:

nodosae,

id. F. 6, 110:

inque plagam nullo cervus agente cadit (al. plagas),

id. A. A. 3, 428:

aut trudit... Apros in obstantes plagas,

Hor. Epod. 2, 32.—Of the spider's web:

illa difficile cernuntur, atque ut in plagis liniae offensae praecipitant in sinum,

Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 82.— Sing. (very rare):

sic tu... tabulam tamquam plagam ponas,

Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68.—

Trop., a snare, trap, toil (class.;

syn. pedica): se impedire in plagas,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 9, 11:

se in plagas conicere,

id. Trin. 2, 1, 11:

quas plagas ipsi contra se Stoici texuerunt,

Cic. Ac. 2, 48, 147:

in illas tibi majores plagas incidendum est,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 58, § 151:

Antonium conjeci in Caesaris Octaviani plagas,

id. Fam. 12, 25, 4:

speculabor, ne quis nostro consilio venator assit cum auritis plagis, i. e. arrectis attentisque auribus,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 14.— Sing. (rare) hanc ergo plagam effugi, Cic. Att. 7, 1, 5.—

A bedcurtain, a curtain (ante-class.; v. plagula), Varr. ap. Non. 162, 28:

eburneis lectis et plagis sigillatis,

id. ib. 378, 9:

chlamydes, plagae, vela aurea,

id. ib. 537, 23.

segmentum, i, n. [seco], a cutting, cut; a piece cut off, a slice (not ante-Aug.; mostly in the plur.; syn.: fragmentum, frustum).

In gen.:

crassior harena laxioribus segmentis terit et plus erodit marmoris,

Plin. 36, 6, 9, § 53; so,

segmenta percae,

Aus. Idyll. 10, 118.—

In partic.

A strip, zone, segment of the earth:

plura sunt haec segmenta mundi, quae nostri circulos appellavere, Graeci parallelos,

Plin. 6, 34, 39, § 212:

quinto continentur segmento Bactra, Iberia, Armenia, etc.,

id. 6, 34, 39, § 216.—

In plur., strips of tinsel, brocade, etc., sewed around the bottom of a woman's dress; trimmings, bands, flounces, purfles, Ov. A. A. 3, 169:

segmenta et longos habitus et flammea sumit,

Juv. 2, 124:

aurea,

Val. Max. 5, 2, 1: crepitantia, Sed. Ep. 8, 6 med.

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