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  • 1 (nexus)

        (nexus) — (only abl sing. and plur., and nom plur.), m    [2 NEC-], a binding together, fastening, joining, interlacing, entwining, clasping: medii nexūs (anguis) Solvuntur, coils, V.: serpens, baculum qui nexibus ambit, O.— The state of a debtor under bonds, a personal obligation, assignment of the person for debt, slavery for debt: se nexu obligare.—Fig., a linking, interweaving: causarum latentium, Cu.

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  • 2 orbis

        orbis is, abl. orbe (rarely -bī, C.), m    a ring, circle, re-entering way, circular path, hoop, orbit: in orbem intorquere: in orbem curvat (iter) eun<*> dem, O.: digitum iusto commodus orbe teras, a ring, O.: ut in orbem consisterent, form a circle, Cs.: orbe facto se defendere, a hollow square, Cs.: orbem volventes suos increpans, L.: in orbem sese stantibus equis defendere, L.: duodecim signorum orbis, zodiac: lacteus, Milky Way: sidera suos orbes conficiunt, orbits: inmensis orbibus angues Incumbunt pelago, coils, V.—A round surface, disk, circle: mensae, round top, O.: de tot pulchris orbibus comedunt, round tables, Iu.: lucidus, disk (of the sun), V.: ictus ab orbe, quoit, O.: (hasta) per orbem cavum Transit, shield, V.—A mosaic pavement, Iu.—One side of a balance: alterno orbe, Tb.—A wheel: Unda ferratos sustinet orbes, V.: Fortunae stantis in orbe Numen, her wheel, O.—An eye-socket, eye: gemino lumen ab orbe venit, eye, O.: oculorum orbes, V.—With terrae or terrarum, the circle of the world, earth, world, universe: orbis terrae, S., C.: terrarum orbis, V.—The earth, world, universe (sc. terrae): Iuppiter totum cum spectet in orbem, O.: Si fractus inlabatur orbis, H.: Roma orbis caput, O.—A country, region, territory: Eoo dives ab orbe redit, the East, O.: Assyrius, Iu.—Fig., a circle, rotation, round, circuit: ut idem in singulos annos orbis volveretur, L.: orbis hic in re p. est conversus, the circle of political change: imperium per omnīs in orbem ibat, in rotation, L.—In time, a cycle, round, period: Annuus, V.: Triginta magnos volvendis mensibus orbīs explebit, years, V. —Of speech, a rounding off, period, cycle: quasi orbem verborum conficere: orationis.—A cycle of thought: sententiae Pyrrhonis in hunc orbem incidere non possunt: circa vilem patulumque orbem, the trite and obvious path, H.
    * * *
    circle; territory/region; sphere

    orbis terrarum -- world/(circle of lands)

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  • 3 anfractum

    1.
    anfractus (not amfr-), a, um, P. a. [qs. from anfringo], winding, bending, cooked:

    spatia,

    Amm. 29, 5.—Hence, subst.: anfractum, i, n., a winding, a crook, curve (ante-class. for the class. anfractus, us): terrarum anfracta, Att. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 15 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 151 Rib.): in anfracto, Varr. ib.: cavata aurium anfracta, Varr. ap. Non. p. 193, 5.
    2.
    anfractus (not amfr-), ūs, m. [id.], pr. a breaking round; hence, a bending, recurving, turning (in the ante-class. per. rare; v. the preced. art.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    quid pulchrius eā figurā (sc. sphaericā) quae nihil incisum anfractibus, nihil eminens, habere potest?

    Cic. N. D. 2, 18, 47.—Hence, of the circular motion of the sun (acc. to the ancient belief):

    solis anfractus,

    a circuit, revolution, Cic. Rep. 6, 12; cf. id. Leg. 2, 8.—Of the crookedness of horns:

    cornua convoluta in anfractum,

    Plin. 11, 37, 45, § 124.—Of the coils of a serpent, Val. Fl. 7, 523; Stat. Th. 5, 520.—Also freq., particularly in the histt., of the turning or winding of a road, etc., a tortuous, circuitous route:

    si nullus anfractus intercederet,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 46:

    illa (via) altero tanto longiorem habebat anfractum,

    Nep. Eum. 8, 5:

    per anfractus jugi procurrere,

    Liv. 44, 4:

    anfractus viarum,

    id. 33, 1:

    litorum anfractus,

    the windings, id. 38, 7 al.; Luc. 1, 605. —
    II.
    Trop., of discourse, = ambages, circumlocution, digression:

    quid opus est circuitione et anfractu?

    Cic. Div. 2, 61, 127:

    oratio circumscripta non longo anfractu, sed ad spiritum vocis apto,

    id. Part. Or. 6, 21:

    quae omnia infinitus anfractus habent,

    ramifications, Quint. 6, 1, 15, where Bonn. and Halm read tractatus. —Of legal matters, intricacies, prolixity:

    judiciorum,

    Cic. Clu. 56, 159:

    juris,

    Quint. 12, 9, 3.

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  • 4 anfractus

    1.
    anfractus (not amfr-), a, um, P. a. [qs. from anfringo], winding, bending, cooked:

    spatia,

    Amm. 29, 5.—Hence, subst.: anfractum, i, n., a winding, a crook, curve (ante-class. for the class. anfractus, us): terrarum anfracta, Att. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 15 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 151 Rib.): in anfracto, Varr. ib.: cavata aurium anfracta, Varr. ap. Non. p. 193, 5.
    2.
    anfractus (not amfr-), ūs, m. [id.], pr. a breaking round; hence, a bending, recurving, turning (in the ante-class. per. rare; v. the preced. art.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    quid pulchrius eā figurā (sc. sphaericā) quae nihil incisum anfractibus, nihil eminens, habere potest?

    Cic. N. D. 2, 18, 47.—Hence, of the circular motion of the sun (acc. to the ancient belief):

    solis anfractus,

    a circuit, revolution, Cic. Rep. 6, 12; cf. id. Leg. 2, 8.—Of the crookedness of horns:

    cornua convoluta in anfractum,

    Plin. 11, 37, 45, § 124.—Of the coils of a serpent, Val. Fl. 7, 523; Stat. Th. 5, 520.—Also freq., particularly in the histt., of the turning or winding of a road, etc., a tortuous, circuitous route:

    si nullus anfractus intercederet,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 46:

    illa (via) altero tanto longiorem habebat anfractum,

    Nep. Eum. 8, 5:

    per anfractus jugi procurrere,

    Liv. 44, 4:

    anfractus viarum,

    id. 33, 1:

    litorum anfractus,

    the windings, id. 38, 7 al.; Luc. 1, 605. —
    II.
    Trop., of discourse, = ambages, circumlocution, digression:

    quid opus est circuitione et anfractu?

    Cic. Div. 2, 61, 127:

    oratio circumscripta non longo anfractu, sed ad spiritum vocis apto,

    id. Part. Or. 6, 21:

    quae omnia infinitus anfractus habent,

    ramifications, Quint. 6, 1, 15, where Bonn. and Halm read tractatus. —Of legal matters, intricacies, prolixity:

    judiciorum,

    Cic. Clu. 56, 159:

    juris,

    Quint. 12, 9, 3.

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  • 5 nexus

    1.
    nexus, a, um, Part. and P. a., from necto.
    2.
    nexus, ūs, m. [necto], a tying or binding together, a fastening, joining, an interlacing, entwining, clasping.
    I.
    Lit. (only poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    et jam contulerant arto luctantia nexu Pectora pectoribus,

    Ov. M. 6, 242; cf.:

    bracchiorum nexibus elidere aliquem (of a wrestler),

    Suet. Ner. 53:

    serpens, baculum qui nexibus ambit,

    coils, folds, Ov. M. 15, 659; cf. Plin. 8, 11, 11, § 32; Tac. A. 4, 62:

    salix solido ligat nexu,

    Plin. 16, 37, 69, § 177.—
    II.
    Transf. (with the collat. form nexum, i; v. in the foll.), the state or condition of a nexus (v. necto, I. B.), a personal obligation, an addiction or voluntary assignment of the person for debt, slavery for debt: nexum Manilius scribit, omne, quod per libram et aes geritur, in quo sint mancipia. Mutius, quae per aes et libram fiant, ut obligentur, praeter quae mancipio dentur. Hoc verius esse, ipsum verbum ostendit, de quo quaeritur;

    nam idem quod obligatur per libram neque suum fit, inde nexum dictum. Liber qui suas operas in servitutem pro pecuniā quādam debebat, dum solveret, nexus vocatur, ut ab aere obaeratus,

    Varr. L. L. 7, § 105 Müll.:

    abalienatio est ejus rei, quae mancipi est, aut traditio alteri nexu, aut in jure cessio,

    Cic. Top. 5, 28:

    QVOM NEXVM FACIET, etc., Lex XII. Tab.: qui se nexu obligavit,

    Cic. Mur. 2, 3:

    nexum inire,

    Liv. 7, 19:

    nec civili nexu sed communi lege naturae,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 26 Mos. (B. and K., nexo):

    Attici proprium te esse scribis mancipio et nexo,

    id. Fam. 7, 30, 2:

    cum sunt propter unius libidinem omnia nexa civium liberata nectierque postea desitum,

    id. Rep. 2, 34, 59:

    ut non sustulerit horum nexa atque hereditates,

    id. Caecin. 35, 102.—
    B.
    In gen., a legal obligation of any kind:

    acceptilatio est liberatio per mutuam interrogationem, quā utriusque contigit ab eodem nexu absolutio,

    Dig. 46, 4, 1:

    partem hereditatis a nexu pignoris liberam consequi,

    ib. 10, 2, 33.—
    * 2.
    Trop.:

    legis (= vincula, nodi),

    obligations, restraints, Tac. A. 3, 28 fin.;

    v. Orell. ad h. l.: nexus naturalium causarum,

    id. ib. 6, 22:

    causarum latentium,

    Curt. 5, 11, 10.

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  • 6 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.

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  • 7 sinus

    1.
    sĭnus, ūs, m.
    I.
    In gen., a bent surface (raised or depressed), a curve, fold, a hollow, etc. (so mostly poet. and in postAug. prose): draco... conficiens sinus e corpore flexos, folds, coils, Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 42, 106; so Ov. M. 15, 689; 15, 721:

    sinu ex togā facto,

    Liv. 21, 18 fin. —Of the bag of a fishing-net:

    quando abiit rete pessum, tum adducit sinum (piscator),

    Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 15; so Juv. 4, 41;

    and of a hunter's net,

    Mart. 13, 100; Grat. Cyn. 29;

    also of a spider's web,

    Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 82.—Of the bend or belly of a sail swollen by the wind:

    velorum plenos subtrahis ipse sinus,

    Prop. 3, 9 (4, 8), 30;

    and so with or without velum,

    Tib. 1, 3, 38; Verg. A. 3, 455; 5, 831; Ov. A. A. 3, 500; Luc. 6, 472; Sil. 7, 242; Quint. 10, 7, 23; 12, 10, 37 al.—Of hair, a curl, ringlet:

    ut fieret torto flexilis orbe sinus,

    Ov. Am. 1, 14, 26; id. A. A. 3, 148.— Of the curve of a reaping-hook:

    falcis ea pars, quae flectitur, sinus nominatur,

    Col. 4, 25, 1 sq. —Of bones, a sinus:

    umeri,

    Cels. 8, 1 med.; cf.

    ulceris,

    id. 7, 2 med.:

    suppurationis ferro recisae,

    Col. 6, 11, 1; Veg. 4, 9, 3.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    The hanging fold of the upper part of the toga, about the breast, the bosom of a garment; also the bosom of a person; sometimes also the lap (= gremium, the predom. class. signif.; esp. freq. in a trop. sense).
    1.
    Lit.:

    est aliquid in amictu: quod ipsum aliquatenus temporum condicione mutatum est. Nam veteribus nulli sinus, perquam breves post illos fuerunt,

    Quint. 11, 3, 137; cf.

    decentissimus,

    id. 11, 3, 140 sq.:

    (Caesar moriens) sinistrā manu sinum ad ima crura deduxit, quo honestius caderet,

    Suet. Caes. 82 (for which, of the same:

    togam manu demisit,

    Val. Max. 4, 5, 6); Tib. 1, 6, 18:

    praetextae sinus,

    Suet. Vesp. 5:

    ne admissum quidem quemquam senatorum nisi solum et praetentato sinu,

    id. Aug. 35:

    ut conchas legerent galeasque et sinus replerent,

    id. Calig. 46:

    cedo mihi ex ipsius sinu litteras Syracusanorum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 57, § 147:

    aurum in sinu ejus invenerunt,

    Quint. 7, 1, 30:

    paternos In sinu ferens deos,

    Hor. C. 2, 18, 27:

    nuda genu, nodoque sinus collecta fluentis,

    Verg. A. 1, 320:

    et fluit effuso cui toga laxa sinu,

    Tib. 1, 6, 14; cf.:

    micat igneus ostro, Undantemque sinum nodis irrugat Iberis,

    Stat. Th. 4, 265:

    ad haec, quae a fortunā sparguntur, sinum expandit,

    eagerly embraces, grasps, Sen. Ep. 74, 6:

    aliquid velut magnum bonum intra sinum continere,

    id. Vit. Beat. 23, 3; cf.:

    sinum subducere alicui rei,

    to reject, id. Thyest. 430.—Prov.:

    sinu laxo (i. e. soluto) ferre aliquid,

    i. e. to be careless about a thing, Hor. S. 2, 3, 172. —
    b.
    Transf.
    (α).
    The purse, money, which was carried in the bosom of the toga (cf. supra, the passage, Quint. 7, 1, 30, and v. crumena; poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    semper amatorum ponderat illa sinus,

    Prop. 2, 16 (3, 8), 12:

    quo pretium condat, non habet ille sinum,

    Ov. Am. 1, 10, 18:

    aere sinus plenos urbe reportare, Col. poët. 10, 310: plurium sinum ac domum inplere,

    Sen. Ben. 6, 43, 1:

    qui etiam condemnationes in sinum vertisse dicuntur... praedam omnem in sinum contulit,

    into his purse, Lampr. Commod. 14 fin.:

    avaritiae,

    Juv. 1, 88.—Hence, M. Scaurus Marianis sodaliciis rapinarum provincialium sinus, the pocketer, i. e. the receiver, Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 116; cf. Tac. H. 2, 92 fin.; 4, 14.—
    (β).
    Poet., a garment, in gen.:

    Tyrio prodeat apta sinu,

    Tib. 1, 9, 72; 1, 6, 18:

    auratus,

    Ov. F. 2, 310:

    purpureus,

    id. ib. 5, 28:

    regalis,

    id. H. 13, 36; 5, 71; Stat. S. 2, 1, 133.—
    (γ).
    The bosom of a person:

    manum in sinum alicui Inserere,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 2:

    gelu rigentem colubram sinu fovit,

    Phaedr. 4, 17, 3:

    opposuit sinum Antonius stricto ferro,

    Tac. H. 3, 10:

    scortum in sinu consulis recubans,

    Liv. 39, 43:

    tangitur, et tacto concipit illa sinu, i. e. utero,

    Ov. F. 5, 256:

    usque metu micuere sinus, dum, etc.,

    id. H. 1, 45:

    horum in sinum omnia congerebant,

    Plin. Pan. 45.—
    2.
    Trop.
    a.
    The bosom, as in most other languages, for love, protection, asylum, etc. (usu. in the phrases in sinu esse, habere, etc.;

    syn. gremium): hic non amandus? hiccine non gestandus in sinu est?

    Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 75:

    iste vero sit in sinu semper et complexu meo,

    Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 3; cf.:

    postremum genus proprium est Catilinae, de ejus delectu, immo vero de complexu ejus ac sinu,

    id. Cat. 2, 10, 22:

    suo sinu complexuque aliquem recipere,

    id. Phil. 13, 4, 9; so (with complexus) id. ib. 2, 25, 61:

    (Pompeius), mihi crede, in sinu est,

    is very dear to me, id. Q. Fr. 2, 13, 1:

    Bibulum noli dimittere e sinu tuo,

    from your intimacy, id. ad Brut. 1, 7, 2:

    praesertim si in amici sinu defieas,

    on the bosom, Plin. Ep. 8, 16, 5:

    in hujus sinu indulgentiāque educatus,

    Tac. Agr. 4; so id. Or. 28; cf.: etsi commotus ingenio, simulationum tamen falsa in sinu avi perdidicerat, i. e. under the care or tuition, id. A. 6, 45 fin.:

    confugit in sinum tuum concussa respublica,

    i. e. into your arms, Plin. Pan. 6, 3; id. Ep. 8, 12, 1:

    optatum negotium sibi in sinum delatum esse dicebat,

    committed to his guardianship, care, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 50, § 131; cf. Plin. Pan. 45, 2:

    respublica in Vespasiani sinum cessisset,

    Tac. H. 3, 69; 3, 19; Dig. 22, 3, 27:

    sinum praebere tam alte cadenti,

    protection, Sen. Ira, 3, 23, 6.—
    b.
    The interior, the inmost part of a thing:

    alii intra moenia atque in sinu urbis sunt hostes,

    in the midst, in the heart of the city, Sall. C. 52, 35:

    in urbe ac sinu cavendum hostem,

    Tac. H. 3, 38; Sil. 4, 34; 6, 652; Claud. Eutr. 2, 575:

    ut (hostis) fronte simul et sinu exciperetur,

    in the centre, Tac. A. 13, 40:

    in intimo sinu pacis,

    i. e. in the midst of a profound peace, Plin. Pan. 56, 4.—
    c.
    In sinu alicujus, in the power or possession of (postAug. and rare):

    opes Cremonensium in sinu praefectorum fore,

    Tac. H. 3, 19:

    omnem fortunam in sinu meo habui,

    Dig. 22, 3, 27.—
    d.
    A hiding-place, place of concealment: ut in sinu gaudeant, gloriose loqui desinunt, qs. in their bosoms (or, as we say, in their sleeve), i. e. in secret, Cic. Tusc. 3, 21, 51;

    so of secret joy,

    Tib. 4, 13, 8:

    in tacito cohibe gaudia clausa sinu,

    Prop. 2, 25 (3, 20), 30; Sen. Ep. 105, 3; cf.

    also: plaudere in sinum,

    Tert. Pudic. 6: suum potius cubiculum ac sinum offerre contegendis quae, etc., the secrecy or concealment of her bed-chamber, Tac. A. 13, 13:

    abditis pecuniis per occultos aut ambitiosos sinus,

    i. e. in hidingplaces offered by obscurity or by high rank, id. H. 2, 92.—
    e.
    Sinus Abrahae, the place of the spirits of the just (eccl. Lat.):

    sinum Abrahae, regionem non caelestem, sublimiorem tamen Inferis,

    Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 34. —
    B.
    A bay, bight, gulf:

    ut primum ex alto sinus ab litore ad urbem inflectitur,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, § 30; cf.:

    portus infusi in sinus oppidi,

    id. Rep. 3, 31, 43; 1, 3, 5; id. Imp. Pomp. 11, 31; id. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 145; id. Att. 16, 6, 1; * Caes. B. C. 2, 32; Sall. J. 78, 2; Liv. 8, 24; Plin. 2, 43, 44, § 114 (Jahn, nivibus); Suet. Aug. 98; id. Tib. 16; Verg. A. 1, 243; 6, 132; Hor. C. 1, 33, 16; id. Epod. 10, 19.—
    2.
    Transf.
    (α).
    The land lying on a gulf, a point of land that helps to form it (perh. not ante-Aug.):

    segetibus in sinu Aenianum vastatis,

    Liv. 28, 5 Drak.:

    jam in sinum Maliacum venerat (with an army),

    id. 37, 6; Tac. A. 14, 9; id. H. 3, 66; id. Agr. 23; Plin. 6, 8, 8, § 23; Just. [p. 1710] 2, 4, 26; 24, 4, 3.—
    (β).
    A curve or fold in land, a basin, hollow, valley:

    Arpini terra campestri agro in ingentem sinum consedit,

    Liv. 30, 2, 12:

    subito dehiscit terra, et immenso sinu laxata patuit,

    Sen. Oedip. 582; id. Herc. Fur. 679; Plin. 2, 44, 44, § 115:

    jugum montis velut sinu quodam flexuque curvatum,

    Curt. 3, 4, 6:

    montium,

    id. 3, 9, 12.
    2.
    sīnus, i, m., v. sinum.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > sinus

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