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mĭnae, ārum, f. [root min-, only in Lat.; cf.: mentum, minari, and perh. mons], the projecting points or pinnacles of walls (only poet.).I.Lit.:II.minae murorum,
Verg. A. 4, 88:moenium,
Amm. 24, 2, 12; 24, 2, 19; 29, 6, 11; 20, 6, 2.—Trop., threats, menaces, of animate and inanimate things (class.).A.Of living beings:B.si quidem hercle Aeacidinis minis animisque expletus cedit,
Plaut. As. 2, 3, 25:virtutem hominibus instituendo et persuadendo, non minis et vi ac metu tradi,
Cic. de Or. 1, 58, 247: terrēre minis, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 301 Müll. (Ann. v. 261):minas jactare,
to throw out threats, Cic. Quint. 14, 47:intendere alicui,
Tac. A. 3, 36. —Of the threats used by cattle-drivers, Ov. P. 1, 8, 56.— Poet., of a bull: nullae in fronte minae, Ov. M. 2, 857; of a snake: tol lentemque minas, raising threats, i. e. raising himself in a threatening posture, Verg. G. 3, 421.—Of inanimate things ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):aspice, quam saevas increpat aura minas,
Prop. 1, 17, 6:hibernae,
Tib. 2, 3, 46:ingentes parturit ira minas,
Ov. H. 12, 208:caelestes minae territabant,
Flor. 2, 8, 3; forebodings of misfortune, Val. Fl. 5, 342.
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