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dēcĭpŭla, ae, f., and dēcĭpŭlum, i, n. [decipio], a snare, gin, trap.

Lit. (late Lat.):

plena avibus,

Vulg. Jerem. 5, 27; Job 18, 10.—

Trop. (ante- and post-class.).

Fem., Sid. Ep. 8, 10 med.; Mart. Cap. 4, § 423; Vulg. Job 18, 10.—

Neutr., App. M. 8, p. 202, 38; 10, p. 250, 28; so id. Flor. 4, p. 360.— Plur.: nulla decipula, Laev. ap. Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 1, 3.

dēcĭpŭla, ae, f., and dēcĭpŭlum, i, n. [decipio], a snare, gin, trap.

Lit. (late Lat.):

plena avibus,

Vulg. Jerem. 5, 27; Job 18, 10.—

Trop. (ante- and post-class.).

Fem., Sid. Ep. 8, 10 med.; Mart. Cap. 4, § 423; Vulg. Job 18, 10.—

Neutr., App. M. 8, p. 202, 38; 10, p. 250, 28; so id. Flor. 4, p. 360.— Plur.: nulla decipula, Laev. ap. Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 1, 3.

lăquĕus, i, m. [cf. Gr. helkô, draw, holkos; Lat. lacio; perh. Germ. locken], a noose, snare (class.; cf. tendicula).

Lit., Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 41:

saxa laqueis vinciebat,

Sall. J. 94:

laqueis falces avertebant,

Caes. B. G. 7, 22:

collum in laqueum inserere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 17, § 37: inicere laqueum, to throw over any one, Liv. 1, 26:

inicere cervicibus laqueum,

Suet. Vit. 17:

laqueo gulam alicui frangere,

to throttle, strangle, Sall. C. 55, 4:

ad laqueum compellere aliquem,

to the halter, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 12:

alicui mandare laqueum,

to bid go and be hanged, Juv. 10, 53:

neque carcer neque laqueus,

a halter, gallows, Tac. A. 3, 50; 5, 9:

faucesque jam exanimis laqueo vexatae,

id. ib. 6, 40.—Of a snare, trap or lasso used by hunters:

laqueis captare feras,

Verg. G. 1, 139:

metuit foveam lupus accipiterque Suspectos laqueos,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 51:

laqueos et muscipula effugere,

Phaedr. 4, 2, 8; cf.:

impliciti laqueis nudus uterque jacent,

Ov. A. A. 2, 580:

dare in laqueum vestigia,

to step into a snare, Juv. 13, 244.—

Trop., a snare, gin, trap.

In gen.:

judicii laqueos declinans,

Cic. Mil. 15, 40; cf.:

interrogationum laqueis aliquem irretire,

id. de Or. 1, 10, 43:

laquei Stoicorum,

subtleties, id. Tusc. 5, 27, 76:

Chrysippi laquei,

id. Fat. 4, 7:

legum et condicionum,

id. Clu. 55, 150: verbi laqueo capere, id. Caecin. 29, 83.—Without a gen.:

in hos inexplicabiles laqueos inciderunt,

Quint. 5, 10, 101:

(testes) inducuntur in laqueos,

id. 5, 7, 11:

sciens in hoc se laqueos induxit,

Lact. 6, 12, 13.—

Fetters, chains, hinderances:

tibi fortuna laqueum impegit, quem nec solvere posses nec erumpere,

Sen. Tranq. 10, 1:

nunquamne hos artissimos laqueos abrumpam,

Plin. Ep. 2, 8, 3.

pĕdĭca, ae, f. [pes], a shackle, fetter, or chain for the feet, a springe, gin, snare (cf.: compes, vinculum tendicula).

Lit., Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 10; Liv. 21, 36:

tunc gruibus pedicas et retia ponere cervis,

Verg. G. 1, 307; Ov. M. 15, 473; Vulg. Jer. 5, 26:

quid, si pedes pedicis coartentur?

App. Flor. p. 357, 29.—

Transf., of the spider's web, Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 81.—

Trop., a shackle, fetter (post-class.):

amoris,

App. M. 2, p. 116, 40:

nuptiales,

id. ib. 6, p. 182, 41.

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.

tĕnus, ŏris, n. [root ten-; Gr. teinô; v. teneo], = tenos, a cord, snare, gin, springe:

intendere tenus,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 6, 23; cf.:

tenus est laqueus, dictus a tendiculā,

Non. 6, 12:

tenus est proprie extrema pars arcūs,

Serv. Verg. A. 6, 62.

tĕnus [root ten; v. teneo], perh. orig., an acc. of direction, and hence joined with gen.; afterwards a prep. with abl. (its supposed construction with the acc. rests upon a false reading in the passages, Ov. H. 12, 27; Val. Fl. 1, 537; Suet. Caes. 52, where the abl. is the true reading), prop. lengthwise, to the end; hence, as far as, up or down to, unto, to (placed after its case; mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cæs.).

In gen. ( a) With gen. plur. (so not in the prose of Cicero):

labrorum tenus,

along the lips, Lucr. 1, 940; 4, 15:

lumborum tenus,

as far as the loins, Cic. Arat. 83 (324):

crurum tenus,

Verg. G. 3, 53:

laterum tenus,

id. A. 10, 210:

per aquam ferme genūs tenus altam,

Liv. 44, 40, 8: aurium tenus, * Quint. 12, 2, 17: illi rumores Cumarum tenus caluerunt, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 2:

urbium Corcyrae tenus,

Liv. 26, 24, 11.—

With abl. (so most freq. in prose and poetry):

Tauro tenus,

Cic. Deiot. 13, 36; Nep. Con. 2, 3:

Arimino tenus,

Suet. Aug. 30:

Antio tenus,

id. Tib. 38:

Ostiā tenus,

id. Ner. 16:

Aethiopiā tenus,

id. Caes. 52:

erat pectoribus tenus,

Liv. 21, 54, 9:

inguinibus tenus,

Cels. 1, 3:

pube tenus,

Verg. A. 3, 427:

summo tenus ore,

id. ib. 1, 737:

collo tenus,

Ov. M. 2, 275:

pectoribus tenus,

id. ib. 15, 512;

15, 673: poplite deinde tenus,

id. ib. 5, 593:

pennis tenus,

id. ib. 6, 258:

mediā tenus alvo,

id. F. 2, 145:

lateri capulo tenus abdidit ensem,

Verg. A. 2, 553:

poti faece tenus cadi,

Hor. C. 3, 15, 16:

tres regiones solo tenus dejectae,

Tac. A. 15, 40 fin.:

tectis tenus,

id. ib. 13, 41:

extollere caelo tenus,

Just. 12, 6, 2.—Of time:

Cantabrico tenus bello nec ultra,

Suet. Aug. 85; cf.:

volneribus tenus, of the fighting of gladiators,

Liv. 41, 20, 12 et saep.—So the compounds, eātenus, hactenus, quātenus, quādantenus, v. h. vv.—

In partic.

After, according to, by:

tertium et quartum consulatum titulo tenus gessit,

Suet. Caes. 76; so,

titulo tenus,

id. Claud. 25; id. Dom. 1, 31:

facie tenus,

i. e. for the sake of appearances, App. M. 10, p. 250, 9:

specie tenus,

Amm. 14, 7, 5:

terrore tenus,

id. 16, 8, 3.—

Verbo tenus, less freq. nomine tenus, as far as the meaning of the word extends, in name, nominally (very rare):

veteres verbo tenus... de re publicā disserebant,

Cic. Leg. 3, 6, 14; Liv. 34, 5, 4:

haec verba cum affectu accipimus, non verbo tenus,

Dig. 2, 2, 1 med.:

usurpatas nomine tenus urbium expugnationes dictitans,

Tac. A. 15, 6 fin.