receptacles for pulse in a granary

lăcus, ūs ( gen. laci, Vulg. Dan. 6, 17; 24; id. Jer. 37, 15; Cassiod. Var. 11, 14; dat. and abl. plur. lacis, Anthol. Lat. 5, 71, 10:

lacibus,

Plin. 23, 1, 20, § 33;

usually lacubus,

Ov. M. 12, 278 al.), m. [root lak, to tear; Gr. lakos, lakeros, lakkos; Lat. lacer, lacinia, lacuna, lāma; cf. lacerna; originally any thing hollow, hence].

A large vessel for liquids, a basin, tank, tub; esp. a vat into which the wine flowed from the press, Cato, R. R. 25; 67, 2; Col. 12, 18, 3:

tu quoque devotos, Bacche, relinque lacus,

Tib. 2, 3, 64:

de lacubus proxima musta tuis,

Ov. F. 4, 888;

a tank of water, in which heated metal was cooled: alii stridentia tingunt Aera lacu,

Verg. G. 4, 173:

gelido ceu quondam lamina candens tincta lacu, stridit,

Ov. M. 9, 170:

ferrum, igne rubens... lacubus demittit,

id. ib. 12, 278.—Hence,

Transf.:

oratio quasi de musto ac lacu fervida,

i. e. still new, that has not done fermenting, Cic. Brut. 83, 288.—

A large body of water which rises and falls (opp. stagnum, a standing pool), a lake, pond:

agri, aedificia, lacus, stagna,

Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 7:

exhalant lacus nebulam,

Lucr. 5, 463:

deae, quae illos Hennenses lacus lucosque incolitis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 72, § 188; cf.

2, 4, 48, § 107: Averni,

Lucr. 6, 746; Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37:

Albanus,

id. Div. 1, 44, 100:

Fucinus,

Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 124:

dicebar sicco vilior esse lacu,

Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 12:

ad spurcos lacus,

Juv. 6, 603.— Poet., of a river:

deinde lacu fluvius se condidit alto Ima petens,

Verg. A. 8, 66; cf. v. 74;

of the Styx,

id. ib. 6, 134; 238; 393.—

A large reservoir for water, a basin, tank, cistern (of which there were a great number in Rome), Front. 3; 78; Liv. 39, 44; Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 121:

a furno redeuntes lacuque,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 37.—A place called Lacus: garruli et malevoli supra Lacum, at the pond (perh. Lacus Curtius or Lacus Juturnae), Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 16.—Prov.:

siccus lacus, for something useless,

Prop. 2, 11, 11 (3, 6, 12).—

A hole in which lime is slacked, a lime-hole, Vitr. 7, 2, 2.—

One of the bins or receptacles for pulse in a granary:

sed et lacubus distinguuntur granaria, ut separatim quaeque legumina ponantur,

Col. 1, 6, 14.—

A den or cave for lions:

labitur in lacum leonum,

Prud. Cath. 4, 65; Vulg. Dan. 6, 7.—

The pit, the place of the dead (cf. II. fin. supra):

salvasti me a descendentibus in lacum,

Vulg. Psa. 29, 4.—

For lacunar, a panel in a ceiling (ante-class.): resultant aedesque lacusque, Lucil. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 726.