mallĕus

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mallĕus, i, m., a hammer, mallet, maul.

Lit.:

(navis) excussa malleo,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 52:

malleorum rostra,

Plin. 34, 14, 41, § 144:

stuparius,

a swingle-staff, id. 19, 1, 3, § 17.—Of the maul or axe for felling animals to be sacrificed:

tempora discussit claro cava malleus ictu,

Ov. M. 2, 624:

elato alte malleo, cultrarium mactavit,

Suet. Calig. 32.—Prov.:

malleum sapientiorem vidi excusso manubrio,

the hammer wiser than the handle, Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 87.—

Transf., a disease among animals:

sunt species mallei septem,

Veg. Vet. 1, 2, 1; 1, 10, 1.

marcŭlus or martŭlus, i, m. dim. [marcus], a small hammer, a hammer (ante-class. and post-Aug.):

malleus vocatur, quia dum quid calet et molle est, caedit et producit: marcus, malleus major: et dictus marcus, quod major sit ad caedendum, et fortior: marcellus mediocris: marculus malleus pusillus,

Isid. Orig. 19, 7, 2;

Lucil. ib.: tegulas invenit Cinyra, et metalla aeris, item forcipem, martulum, vectem, incudem,

Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 195:

alii caelo et marculo gemmulas exsculpunt,

Front. ad Caes. 4, 4, 3 Mai.:

aerariorum marculi,

Mart. 12, 57, 6.

Marcŭlus diminutivum a Marco, Paul. ex Fest. p. 125 Müll.

marcŭlus or martŭlus, i, m. dim. [marcus], a small hammer, a hammer (ante-class. and post-Aug.):

malleus vocatur, quia dum quid calet et molle est, caedit et producit: marcus, malleus major: et dictus marcus, quod major sit ad caedendum, et fortior: marcellus mediocris: marculus malleus pusillus,

Isid. Orig. 19, 7, 2;

Lucil. ib.: tegulas invenit Cinyra, et metalla aeris, item forcipem, martulum, vectem, incudem,

Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 195:

alii caelo et marculo gemmulas exsculpunt,

Front. ad Caes. 4, 4, 3 Mai.:

aerariorum marculi,

Mart. 12, 57, 6.

Marcŭlus diminutivum a Marco, Paul. ex Fest. p. 125 Müll.

mallĕŏlus, i, m. dim. [malleus], a small hammer or mallet.

Lit., Cels. 8, 3, 29; Vulg. Jud. 4, 21:

verba mea sunt quasi malleus conterens petram,

id. Jer. 23, 29.—

Transf.

A hammershaped slip, a mallet-shoot for planting:

malleolus novellus est palmes, innatus prioris anni flagello, cognominatusque a similitudine rei, quod in ea parte, quae deciditur, ex vetere sarmento prominens utrinque, malleoli speciem praebet,

Col. 3, 6, 3; cf. Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 156:

malleolos pangere,

to set in, plant, Col. 3, 3, 12; so,

deponere,

id. ib.:

conserere,

id. 3, 14, 2:

demergere,

id. 3, 18, 2:

serere sulco, vel scrobe,

Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 169.—

In milit. lang., a kind of fire-dart, Amm. 23, 4, 14; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 135 Müll.:

malleoli, manipuli spartei pice contecti, qui incensi aut in muros aut in testudines jaciuntur,

Non. 556, 11 sq.: partim malleolos, partim fasces sarmentorum incensos supra vallum, etc., Sisenn. ap. Non. 556, 13:

malleolos et faces ad inflammandam urbem comparare,

Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 32; cf. id. Mil. 24, 64: faces taedamque et malleolos stupae illitos pice parari jubet, Liv 42, 64, 3; cf. id. 38, 6, 2. —

The tongue of a shoe-buckle:

malleoli ossei vel aerei,

Isid. 19, 34, 10.

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lībro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [libra].

To balance, make even, level, to determine a level: aquam, to level water, i. e. to ascertain the fall of water by means of a level, Vitr. 8, 6, 3: collocationem libratam indicare, id 8, 6, 1.— Pass. impers.:

libratur autem dioptris,

Vitr. 8, 6, 1.—

Transf., to make even or level:

pavimenta,

Cato, R. R. 18, 7.—

To hold in equilibrium, to poise, balance:

terra librata ponderibus,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 69:

columnarum turbines ita librati perpenderunt, ut puero circumagente tornarentur,

Plin. 36, 13, 19, § 91:

librati pondera caeli orbe tene medio,

Luc. 1, 58.—

To cause to hang or swing, to keep suspended, keep in its place:

vela cadunt primo et dubia librantur ab aura,

are waved to and fro, Ov. F. 3, 585:

et fluctus supra, vento librante, pependit,

Sil. 17, 274:

aëris vi suspensam librari medio spatio tellurem,

Plin. 2, 5, 4, § 10.—

To cause to swing, to swing, sway, brandish, set in motion, hurl, dash, cast, launch, fling, throw:

summā telum librabat ab aure,

Verg. A. 9, 417:

ferro praefixum robur,

id. ib. 10, 479:

caestus,

id. ib. 5, 478:

tum librat ab aure intorquens jaculum,

Sil. 5, 576:

dextra libratum fulmen ab aure misit,

Ov. M. 2, 311; 5, 624; 7, 787; Luc. 3, 433:

librata cum sederit glans,

Liv. 38, 29: librare se, to balance or poise one's self, to fly:

cursum in aëre,

Ov. Am. 2, 6, 11: saepe lapillos Tollunt;

his sese per inania nubila librant,

Verg. G. 4, 196:

haliaeetos librans ex alto sese,

Plin. 10, 3, 3, § 8:

corpus in herba,

to stretch one's self out on the grass, Ov. F. 1, 429: incidentis manus libratur artifici temperamento, Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 115:

librare iter,

to take one's way, Sen. Oed. 899.—

Trop.

To make of even weight, to balance, make equal ( poet.):

orbem horis,

Col. 10, 42:

crimina in antithetis,

Pers. 1, 85.—

To weigh, ponder, consider ( poet. and in post-class. prose):

librabat metus,

Stat. Th. 9, 165: quae omnia meritorum momenta perpendit, librat, examinat, Naz. Pan. ad Const. 7: praescriptiones, Cod. Th. 8, 4, 26.— Hence, lībrātus, a, um, P. a.

Level, horizontal:

aquam non esse libratam, sed sphaeroides habere schema,

Vitr. 8, 6.—

Poised, balanced, swung, hurled, launched; forcible, powerful:

librata cum sederit (glans),

Liv. 38, 29:

librato magis et certo ictu,

violent, powerful, Tac. H. 2, 22:

malleus dextra libratus ab aure,

Ov. M. 2, 624:

per nubes aquila librata volatu,

Sil. 15, 429. — Comp.:

libratior ictus,

Liv. 30, 10; cf. id. 42, 65.—Hence, * adv.: lībrātē, deliberately:

aliquid eligere,

Serv. Verg. A. 2, 713.