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1 brachium
arm; lower arm, forearm; claw; branch, shoot; earthwork connecting forts -
2 bracchium
bracchĭum (less correctly brāchĭ-um; gen. bracchi, Lucr. 6, 434), ii, n. [perh. kindr. with Gr. brachiôn; but cf. Sanscr. bāhu; like frango, Sanscr. bhang, Bopp, Gloss. p. 239 a], the arm; particularly,I.Lit., the forearm, from the hand to the elbow (while lacertus is the upper arm, from the elbow to the shoulder), Lucr. 4, 830; 6, 397:II.bracchia et lacerti,
Ov. M. 1, 501; 1, 550 sq.:subjecta lacertis bracchia,
id. ib. 14, 305; Curt. 8, 9, 21; 9, 1, 29:(feminae) nudae bracchia et lacertos,
Tac. G. 17 (opp. umerus); Cels. 8, 1, § 79 sqq.; 8, 10, § 55 sqq.—Far oftener,Transf.A.In gen., the arm, the whole arm, from the shoulder to the fingers, Pac. ap. Non. p. 87, 26, and Varr. L. L. 5, 7, p. 4 Müll.; id. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4:2.quod eum bracchium fregisse diceret,
Cic. de Or. 2, 62, 253; cf. Cels. 1, 10, 3:multi ut diu jactato bracchio praeoptarent scutum manu emittere et nudo corpore pugnare,
Caes. B. G. 1, 25:bracchium (sc. dextrum) cohibere togā,
Cic. Cael. 5, 11 (cf. Sen. Contr. 5, 6:bracchium extra togam exserere): eodem ictu bracchia ferro exsolvunt (i.e. venas incidunt, as, soon after, crurum et poplitum venas abrumpit),
Tac. A. 15, 63; 1, 41.—Of embraces:collo dare bracchia circum,
to throw the arms round the neck, Verg. A. 6, 700; cf.:circumdare collo,
Ov. M. 9, 459:implicare collo,
id. ib. 1, 762:inicere collo,
id. ib. 3, 389:cervici dare,
Hor. C. 3, 9, 2:lentis adhaerens bracchiis,
id. Epod. 15, 6: Hephaestionis bracchium hastā ictum est, Curt. 4, 16, 31:ut in jaculando bracchia reducimus,
Quint. 10, 3, 6:sinisteriore bracchio,
Suet. Dom. 17:bracchia ad superas extulit auras,
Verg. A. 5, 427:alternaque jactat Bracchia protendens (Dares),
id. ib. 5, 377:juventus horrida bracchiis,
Hor. C. 3, 4, 50.—Of a rower:si bracchia forte remisit,
Verg. G. 1, 202:matri bracchia tendere,
Ov. M. 3, 723:patrio tendens bracchia caelo,
id. ib. 9, 210:tendens ad caelum bracchia,
id. ib. 9, 293:precando Bracchia sustulerat,
id. ib. 6, 262.—Prov.:dirigere bracchia contra Torrentem,
to swim against the current, Juv. 4, 89.—Of the movement of the arms in speaking:3.bracchii projectione in contentionibus, contractione in remissis,
Cic. Or. 18, 59; so Quint. 11, 3, 84:extento bracchio paululum de gestu addidit,
Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242:demissa bracchia,
Quint. 2, 13, 9:a latere modice remota,
id. 11, 3, 159:ut bracchio exserto introspiciatur latus,
id. 11, 3, 118:aliqui transversum bracchium proferunt et cubito pronunciant,
id. 11, 3, 93:bracchium in latus jactant,
id. 4, 2, 39:si contendemus per continuationem, bracchio celeri, mobili vultu utemur,
Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—Of the motion of the arms in dancing:4.bracchia in numerum jactare,
Lucr. 4, 769;imitated by Ov.: numerosa bracchia jactat (ducit, Jahn),
Ov. Am. 2,4,29, and id. R. Am. 754; Lucr. 4, 790; imitated in Ov. A. A. 1, 595; Prop. 2 (3), 22, 6; imitated in Stat. S. 3, 5, 66; cf.of the labors of the Cyclopes: illi inter sese magnā vi bracchia tollunt In numerum,
Verg. G. 4, 174.—Trop.: levi or molli bracchio agere aliquid, to do any thing superficially, negligently, remissly (prob. peculiar to the lang. of conversation), Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6; so,B.molli bracchio aliquem objurgare,
id. ib. 2, 1, 6.—Prov.:praebuerim sceleri bracchia nostra tuo,
lend a hand, Ov. H. 7, 126.—The limbs of animals analogous to the arms of men; of the claws of crawfish, etc., Ov. M. 4, 625; 10, 127; 15, 369; Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 97: hence also of the sign Cancer, Ov. M. 2, 83; also of Scorpio, Verg. G. 1, 34; Ov. M. 2, 82; 2, 195.—Of the claws of the nautilus, Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88, and other sea-fish, id. 11, 48, 108, § 258.—Of the lion:2.in feminum et bracchiorum ossibus,
Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214.—Comicé for armus or femur (as inversely armus = bracchium): Ar. Edepol vel elephanto in Indiā Quo pacto pugno perfregisti bracchium. Py. Quid? bracchium? Ar. Illud dicere volui femur, the shoulder, the shoulder-blade of the elephant, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 26 sq. Brix ad loc.—C.Objects resembling arms.1.The branches of trees (cf. Ov. M. 1, 550: in ramos bracchia crescunt;2.v. also manus and coma): vitem sub bracchia ungito,
Cato, R. R. 95 fin.;of the vine,
Verg. G. 2, 368; Col. 4, 24, 2; 7, 8 sq.; 5, 5, 9 sq.; Pall. Febr. 9, 6;id. Mai, 2, 1: quatiens bracchia Quercus,
Cat. 64, 105:differt quod in bracchia ramorum spargitur,
Plin. 13, 9, 18, § 62:(aesculus) Tum fortes late ramos et bracchia tendens, etc.,
Verg. G. 2, 296; Ov. M. 14, 630; Val. Fl. 8, 114.—An arm of the sea:3.nec bracchia longo Margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite,
Ov. M. 1, 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16.—The collateral branches or ridges of a mountain:4.Taurus ubi bracchia emittit,
Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98.—Poet., = antenna, the sail-yards:5.jubet intendi bracchia velis,
Verg. A. 5, 829; cf. Stat. S. 5, 1, 244.—In milit. lang., a ( natural or artificial) outwork or line for connecting two points in fortifications, etc.; Gr. skelê:6.aliā parte consul muro Ardeae bracchium injunxerat,
a line of communication, Liv. 4, 9, 14; 38, 5, 8; 22, 52, 1 Drak.; 44, 35, 13; Hirt. B. Alex. 30; id. B. Afr. 38; 49; 51; 56; id. B. Hisp. 5; 6; 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16; Luc. 3, 387; 4, 266.—So of the side-works, moles, dikes, in the fortification of a harbor, Liv. 31, 26, 8; cf. Just. 5, 8, 5 Gron.; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 15; Suet. Claud. 20.—The arm of a catapult or ballista, Vitr. 1, 1; 10, 15 sq. -
3 brachium
bracchĭum (less correctly brāchĭ-um; gen. bracchi, Lucr. 6, 434), ii, n. [perh. kindr. with Gr. brachiôn; but cf. Sanscr. bāhu; like frango, Sanscr. bhang, Bopp, Gloss. p. 239 a], the arm; particularly,I.Lit., the forearm, from the hand to the elbow (while lacertus is the upper arm, from the elbow to the shoulder), Lucr. 4, 830; 6, 397:II.bracchia et lacerti,
Ov. M. 1, 501; 1, 550 sq.:subjecta lacertis bracchia,
id. ib. 14, 305; Curt. 8, 9, 21; 9, 1, 29:(feminae) nudae bracchia et lacertos,
Tac. G. 17 (opp. umerus); Cels. 8, 1, § 79 sqq.; 8, 10, § 55 sqq.—Far oftener,Transf.A.In gen., the arm, the whole arm, from the shoulder to the fingers, Pac. ap. Non. p. 87, 26, and Varr. L. L. 5, 7, p. 4 Müll.; id. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4:2.quod eum bracchium fregisse diceret,
Cic. de Or. 2, 62, 253; cf. Cels. 1, 10, 3:multi ut diu jactato bracchio praeoptarent scutum manu emittere et nudo corpore pugnare,
Caes. B. G. 1, 25:bracchium (sc. dextrum) cohibere togā,
Cic. Cael. 5, 11 (cf. Sen. Contr. 5, 6:bracchium extra togam exserere): eodem ictu bracchia ferro exsolvunt (i.e. venas incidunt, as, soon after, crurum et poplitum venas abrumpit),
Tac. A. 15, 63; 1, 41.—Of embraces:collo dare bracchia circum,
to throw the arms round the neck, Verg. A. 6, 700; cf.:circumdare collo,
Ov. M. 9, 459:implicare collo,
id. ib. 1, 762:inicere collo,
id. ib. 3, 389:cervici dare,
Hor. C. 3, 9, 2:lentis adhaerens bracchiis,
id. Epod. 15, 6: Hephaestionis bracchium hastā ictum est, Curt. 4, 16, 31:ut in jaculando bracchia reducimus,
Quint. 10, 3, 6:sinisteriore bracchio,
Suet. Dom. 17:bracchia ad superas extulit auras,
Verg. A. 5, 427:alternaque jactat Bracchia protendens (Dares),
id. ib. 5, 377:juventus horrida bracchiis,
Hor. C. 3, 4, 50.—Of a rower:si bracchia forte remisit,
Verg. G. 1, 202:matri bracchia tendere,
Ov. M. 3, 723:patrio tendens bracchia caelo,
id. ib. 9, 210:tendens ad caelum bracchia,
id. ib. 9, 293:precando Bracchia sustulerat,
id. ib. 6, 262.—Prov.:dirigere bracchia contra Torrentem,
to swim against the current, Juv. 4, 89.—Of the movement of the arms in speaking:3.bracchii projectione in contentionibus, contractione in remissis,
Cic. Or. 18, 59; so Quint. 11, 3, 84:extento bracchio paululum de gestu addidit,
Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242:demissa bracchia,
Quint. 2, 13, 9:a latere modice remota,
id. 11, 3, 159:ut bracchio exserto introspiciatur latus,
id. 11, 3, 118:aliqui transversum bracchium proferunt et cubito pronunciant,
id. 11, 3, 93:bracchium in latus jactant,
id. 4, 2, 39:si contendemus per continuationem, bracchio celeri, mobili vultu utemur,
Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—Of the motion of the arms in dancing:4.bracchia in numerum jactare,
Lucr. 4, 769;imitated by Ov.: numerosa bracchia jactat (ducit, Jahn),
Ov. Am. 2,4,29, and id. R. Am. 754; Lucr. 4, 790; imitated in Ov. A. A. 1, 595; Prop. 2 (3), 22, 6; imitated in Stat. S. 3, 5, 66; cf.of the labors of the Cyclopes: illi inter sese magnā vi bracchia tollunt In numerum,
Verg. G. 4, 174.—Trop.: levi or molli bracchio agere aliquid, to do any thing superficially, negligently, remissly (prob. peculiar to the lang. of conversation), Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6; so,B.molli bracchio aliquem objurgare,
id. ib. 2, 1, 6.—Prov.:praebuerim sceleri bracchia nostra tuo,
lend a hand, Ov. H. 7, 126.—The limbs of animals analogous to the arms of men; of the claws of crawfish, etc., Ov. M. 4, 625; 10, 127; 15, 369; Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 97: hence also of the sign Cancer, Ov. M. 2, 83; also of Scorpio, Verg. G. 1, 34; Ov. M. 2, 82; 2, 195.—Of the claws of the nautilus, Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88, and other sea-fish, id. 11, 48, 108, § 258.—Of the lion:2.in feminum et bracchiorum ossibus,
Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214.—Comicé for armus or femur (as inversely armus = bracchium): Ar. Edepol vel elephanto in Indiā Quo pacto pugno perfregisti bracchium. Py. Quid? bracchium? Ar. Illud dicere volui femur, the shoulder, the shoulder-blade of the elephant, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 26 sq. Brix ad loc.—C.Objects resembling arms.1.The branches of trees (cf. Ov. M. 1, 550: in ramos bracchia crescunt;2.v. also manus and coma): vitem sub bracchia ungito,
Cato, R. R. 95 fin.;of the vine,
Verg. G. 2, 368; Col. 4, 24, 2; 7, 8 sq.; 5, 5, 9 sq.; Pall. Febr. 9, 6;id. Mai, 2, 1: quatiens bracchia Quercus,
Cat. 64, 105:differt quod in bracchia ramorum spargitur,
Plin. 13, 9, 18, § 62:(aesculus) Tum fortes late ramos et bracchia tendens, etc.,
Verg. G. 2, 296; Ov. M. 14, 630; Val. Fl. 8, 114.—An arm of the sea:3.nec bracchia longo Margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite,
Ov. M. 1, 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16.—The collateral branches or ridges of a mountain:4.Taurus ubi bracchia emittit,
Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98.—Poet., = antenna, the sail-yards:5.jubet intendi bracchia velis,
Verg. A. 5, 829; cf. Stat. S. 5, 1, 244.—In milit. lang., a ( natural or artificial) outwork or line for connecting two points in fortifications, etc.; Gr. skelê:6.aliā parte consul muro Ardeae bracchium injunxerat,
a line of communication, Liv. 4, 9, 14; 38, 5, 8; 22, 52, 1 Drak.; 44, 35, 13; Hirt. B. Alex. 30; id. B. Afr. 38; 49; 51; 56; id. B. Hisp. 5; 6; 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16; Luc. 3, 387; 4, 266.—So of the side-works, moles, dikes, in the fortification of a harbor, Liv. 31, 26, 8; cf. Just. 5, 8, 5 Gron.; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 15; Suet. Claud. 20.—The arm of a catapult or ballista, Vitr. 1, 1; 10, 15 sq.
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