ostiorum+fenestrarumque+pm

lōrīca, ae, f. [id.], a leather cuirass, a corselet of thongs (opp. thorax, a brazen breastplate).

Lit.:

pro lorica malacum capiam pallium,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 37:

lata insignisque lorica,

Cic. Mur. 26, 52:

ambulat cum lorica,

id. Fl. 17, 41:

graves loricis,

Liv. 5, 38:

trilix,

Verg. A. 3, 467; 5, 259; Sil. 2, 401:

bilix,

Verg. A. 12, 376:

truncis affixa tropaeis lorica,

Juv. 10, 134:

cum vix loricam multiplicem conixi umeris ferunt,

Quint. 8, 4, 25.—Also of linen:

lintea,

Suet. Galb. 19.—

Transf., a defence of any kind.

Milit., a breastwork, parapet:

turres contabulantur, pinnae loricaeque ex cratibus attexuntur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 39:

huic vallo loricam pinnasque adjecit,

id. ib. 7, 72:

loricam vallumque struxere,

Tac. H. 4, 37; Curt. 9, 4, 30; Veg. Mil. 4, 28. —

A fence, hedge, enclosure, App. M. 6, p. 186; Amm. 24, 5, 2.—

A plastering, plaster:

lorica testacea,

Vitr. 2, 8; 2, 9:

stellionis cubile est in loricis ostiorum, fenestrarumque,

Plin. 30, 10, 27, § 89.—

Trop.:

libros Mutare loricis,

i. e. to exchange studies for arms, Hor. C. 1, 29, 15.