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1 meatus
mĕātus, ūs, m. [id.], a going, passing, motion, course ( poet. and post-Aug.).I.Lit.:II.solis lunaeque meatus,
Lucr. 1, 128:caeli,
Verg. A. 6, 850:aquilae,
flight, Tac. H. 1, 62:spiritus,
i. e. the breathing, respiration, Quint. 7, 10, 10:animae,
Plin. Ep. 6, [p. 1122] 16, 13.—Transf., concr., a way, path, passage, Val. Fl. 3, 403:B.meatum vomiticnibus praeparare,
Plin. 19, 5, 26, § 85:spirandi,
id. 28, 13, 55, § 197: cur signa meatus Deseruere suos, left their paths, i. e. became darkened, eclipsed, Luc. 1, 664:Danubius in Ponticum sex meatibus erumpit,
discharges itself through six channels, Tac. G. 1; cf.:bifido meatu divisus Rhenus,
divided into two channels, Claud. B. G. 336. —The avenues of sensation in the body:homo septem meatus habet in capite, duos oculos, etc.,
Mart. Cap. 7, § 739.
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