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sand in which mathematicians drew their figures

  • 1 pulvis

    pulvis, ĕris (nom. pulver, App. Herb. 35; Theod. Prisc. 1, 30; 2, 32; cf. Prisc. p. 707 P.), m. ( fem., Enn. ap. Non. 217, 11 sq.; Prop. 1, 22, 6; 2, 13, 35 (3, 5, 19);

    and also,

    masc., id. 1, 17, 23; 1, 19, 6; 4 (5), 9, 31).
    I.
    Lit., dust, powder: jamque fere pulvis ad caelum vasta videtur, Enn. ap. Non. 217, 11 (Ann. v. 286 Vahl.): fulva, id. ap. Non. 217, 13 (Ann. v. 319 ib.):

    si multus erat in calceis pulvis,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 47; Lucr. 3, 381:

    pulveris nebula,

    id. 5, 254:

    Romani pulveris vim magnam animadvortunt,

    Sall. J. 53, 1; Caes. B. C. 2, 26:

    qui (ventus) nubes pulveris vehit,

    Liv. 22, 43:

    prospectum oculorum nubes pulveris abstulerat,

    Curt. 4, 15, 32; 5, 13, 12; Sil. 2, 174:

    subitam nigro glomerari pulvere nubem Prospiciunt,

    Verg. A. 9, 33:

    pulvis collectus turbine,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 31:

    pulverem Olympicum Collegisse,

    id. C. 1, 1, 3:

    crinis pulvere collines,

    id. ib. 1, 15, 20:

    pulvere sparsi juvenes,

    Phaedr. 4, 24, 22:

    tum caeco pulvere campus Miscetur,

    Verg. A. 12, 444:

    pulverem excutere,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 150:

    sedare,

    Phaedr. 2, 5, 18:

    movere,

    Quint. 5, 10, 81:

    excitare,

    Col. Arb. 12:

    glaebam in pulverem resolvere,

    id. 11, 2, 60: eruditus, the dust or sand in which mathematicians drew their figures, Cic. N. D. 2, 18, 48; cf. id. Tusc. 5, 23, 64:

    formas in pulvere describere,

    Liv. 25, 31; Pers. 1, 131:

    amomi,

    dust, powder, Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 69:

    carbonis,

    coal-dust, id. A. A. 3, 628. — Poet.:

    Etrusca,

    i. e. soil, Prop. 1, 22, 6; so of potters' earth, Mart. 14, 1021; 1141; of volcanic ashes:

    Puteolanus,

    pozzolana, Stat. S. 4, 3, 53; Sen. Q. N. 3, 20, 3; Plin. 35, 13, 47, § 166.—Of the dust or ashes of the dead:

    pulvis et umbra sumus,

    Hor. C. 4, 7, 16 al.; cf.:

    pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris,

    Vulg. Gen. 3, 19:

    hibernus,

    i. e. a dry winter, Verg. G. 1, 101.—Esp.: pulvis belli, war:

    formosus pulvere belli,

    Mart. 8, 65, 3:

    duces Non indecoro pulvere sordidi,

    Hor. C. 2, 1, 22:

    in pulverem Martium tractus,

    Amm. 16, 1, 5:

    exercitus pulvere coalitus Martio,

    id. 21, 12, 22.—In plur.:

    novendiales,

    Hor. Epod. 17, 48:

    cineris pulveres,

    Pall. 3, 25, 14 (cf. id. 11, 14, 15):

    pulverum mole degravante,

    Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 83; cf. Gell. 19, 8, 13:

    natio ad pulveres Martios erudita,

    Amm. 23, 6, 83.—Prov.: sulcos in pulvere ducere, to draw furrows in the sand, i. e. to give one's self useless trouble, Juv. 7, 48: pulverem ob oculos aspergere, to throw dust in one's eyes, i. e. to deceive, Gell. 5, 21, 4.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    A place of contest, arena, lists: domitant in pulvere currus, Verg. A. 7, 163; Mart. 12, 83.—
    2.
    In gen., a scene of action, field (cf. arena):

    doctrinam ex umbraculis eruditorum in solem atque pulverem produxit,

    i. e. before the public, Cic. Leg. 3, 6, 14; cf. Hor. C. 1, 8, 4:

    educenda dictio est in agmen, in pulverem,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 157:

    forensis pulvis,

    Quint. 10, 1, 33:

    inque suo noster pulvere currat equus,

    on his own field, within his own territory, Ov. F. 2, 360.—
    B.
    Toil, effort, labor ( poet.):

    cui sit condicio dulcis sine pulvere palmae,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 51.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > pulvis

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