the fillet

infŭla, ae, f. [cf. Sanscr. bhāla, brow; Gr. phalos, phalara], a band, bandage.

In gen.:

in infulis tantam rem depingere,

Cic. de Or. 3, 21, 81.—

In partic., a white and red fillet or band of woollen stuff, worn upon the forehead, as a sign of religious consecration and of inviolability, a sacred fillet; so a priest ' s fillet:

sacerdotes Cereris cum infulis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 50, § 110:

Phoebi Triviaeque sacerdos, Infula cui sacrā redimibat tempora vittā,

Verg. A. 10, 538: cujus sacerdotii (i. e. fratrum arvalium) insigne est spicea corona et infulae albae, Sabin. ap. Gell. 7, 7, 8.—Hence, meton., a priest, Prud. Apoth. 486.—Of the victim ' s fillet (whether beast or man):

saepe in honore deum medio stans hostia ad aram, Lanea dum niveā circumdatur infula vittā,

Verg. G. 3, 487:

infula virgineos circumdata comptus (of Iphigenia),

Lucr. 1, 87.— Of the fillet worn by a suppliant for protection:

velata infulis ramisque oleae Carthaginiensium navis,

Liv. 30, 36, 4:

velamenta et infulas praeferentes,

Tac. H. 1, 66:

hae litterae (philosophy) apud mediocriter malos infularum loco sunt,

held in awe, Sen. Ep. 14, 10:

ipsas miserias infularum loco habet,

i. e. his wretchedness claims reverence, id. ad Helv. 13, 4. —

Transf., an ornament, mark of distinction, badge of honor:

his insignibus atque infulis imperii venditis (said of the lands belonging to the state),

Cic. Agr. 1, 2, 6.— The insignia of an office:

honorum,

Cod. Just. 7, 63, 1: infulae imperiales, id. tit. 37 fin. — Hence, for the office itself, Spart. Hadr. 6.— Ornaments of houses and temples, i. e. carved work, etc., Luc. 2, 355.

fīlum, i. n. (also filus, i, m., acc. to Arn. 1, 36 dub., plur. heterocl., fili, Luc. 6, 460) [for figlum, v. figo], a thread of any thing woven (of linen or woolen cloth, a cobweb, etc.).

Lit., Varr. L. L. 5, § 113 Müll.; Enn. ap. Non. 116, 6 (Ann. v. 259 ed. Vahl.); Verg. A. 6, 30; Ov. A. A. 3, 445; id. M. 4, 36; Mart. 6, 3, 5; Cels. 7, 16:

lumen candelae cujus tempero filum,

wick, Juv. 3, 287:

tenuia aranei,

a web, Lucr. 3, 383:

tineae,

Ov. M. 15, 372.— Poet., of the thread of life spun by the Fates:

sororum fila trium,

Hor. C. 2, 3, 16; Verg. A. 10, 815; Ov. M. 2, 654; id. Tr. 5, 10, 45; Sil. 4, 28; Mart. 10, 5, 10 al.— Prov.: pendere filo (tenui), to hang by a thread, for to be in great danger: hac noctu filo pendebit Etruria tota, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4, § 18 (Ann. v. 153 ed. Vahl.):

omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo,

Ov. P. 4, 3, 35; Val. Max. 6, 4, 1.—

In partic., the fillet of wool wound round the upper part of the flamen's cap, similar to the stemma of the Greeks; hence, in gen., a priest's fillet: APICVLVM, filum, quo flamines velatum apicem gerunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 23 Müll.:

legatus capite velato filo (lanae velamen est), Audi, Juppiter, inquit, etc.,

Liv. 1, 32, 6:

filo velatus,

Tib. 1, 5, 15.—

Transf. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Of any thing slender and drawn out like a thread, a string, cord, filament, fibre:

tractat inauratae consona fila lyrae,

the strings, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 60; so,

lyrae,

id. M. 5, 118:

sonantia,

id. ib. 10, 89:

croci,

i. e. the stamen, id. F. 1, 342:

foliorum exilitas usque in fila attenuata,

Plin. 21, 6, 16, § 30; 11, 15, 15, § 39. —

Plur., shreds, slices, remnants:

fila sectivi porri,

Juv. 14, 133:

porris fila resecta suis,

Mart. 11, 52:

fila Tarentini graviter redolentia porri edisti,

id. 13, 18.—

I. q. crassitudo, the density, compactness, compact shape, or, in gen., contour, form, shape of an object:

forma quoque hinc solis debet filumque videri,

Lucr. 5, 571, v. Lachm. ad h. 1.; cf. id. 5, 581; 2, 341; 4, 88:

mulieris,

Plaut. Merc. 4, 4, 15:

corporis,

Varr. L. L. 10, § 4 Müll.; Gell. 1, 9, 2; Amm. 14, 11, 28:

forma atque filo virginali,

id. 14, 4, 2:

ingeniosus est et bono filo,

Petr. 46.—

Trop. (cf. the preced. no.), of speech, texture, sort, quality, nature, style (class.):

ego hospiti veteri et amico munusculum mittere (volui) levidense, crasso filo, cujusmodi ipsius solent esse munera,

i. e. of coarse texture, Cic. Fam. 9, 12, 2; cf.:

argumentandi tenue filum,

id. Or. 36, 124:

tenui deducta poëmata filo,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 225; cf.:

gracili connectere carmina filo, Col. poët. 10, 227: paulo uberiore filo,

Cic. de Or. 2, 22, 93:

orationis,

id. ib. 3, 26, 103:

aliud quoddam filum orationis tuae (= oratio uberior),

id. Lael. 7, 25.

taenĭa, ae ( abl. plur. taeniis;

dissyl.,

Verg. A. 5, 269), f., = tainia, a band, ribbon, fillet; a head-band, hair-band, bandeau (syn. vitta).

Lit. (only poet.):

taenias Graecam vocem sic interpretatur Verrius, ut dicat ornamentum esse laneum capitis honorati, ut sit apud Caecilium in Androgyno: sepulcrum plenum taeniarum, ita ut solet, et alias: dum taeniam, qui volnus vinciret, petit. Ennius in Alexandro: volans de caelo cum coronā et taeniis (Trag. Rel. v. 33 Rib.): Attius in Neoptolemo: (tumulum) decorare est satius quam urbem taeniis,

Fest. p. 360 Müll. (cf. Trag. Rel. v. 472 Rib.):

puniceis ibant evincti tempora taeniis,

Verg. A. 5, 269; 7, 352:

taenia ne madidos violet bombycina crines,

Mart. 14, 24, 1.—

Transf., of things of a like shape.

A tape-worm: Taenia solium and vulgaris, Linn.; Cato, R. R. 126; Plin. 11, 33, 39, § 113; 31, 9, 45, § 102; Ser. Samm. 30, 563.—

A kind of fish, the ribbon-fish: Cepola taenia, Linn.; Plin. 32, 7, 24, § 76 (Jahn, thynnus).—

In archit., the fillet which separates the Doric frieze from the architrave, Vitr. 4, 3 med. —

A streak in paper, Plin. 13, 12, 25, § 81 (Sillig).—

A row of projecting rocks in the sea, a reef, Plin. 3, prooem. § 4. — Hence the purple-fish found on these rocks are called taeniense genus purpurarum, Plin. 9, 37, 61, § 131.

flāmen (also ‡

FILAMEN,

Inscr. Grut. 227, 6), mis, m. [same root with fla-gro, q. v.; lit., he who burns, sc. offerings, Corss. Ausspr. 1, 84, 146; cf. 2, 86 note; Momms. Röm. Gesch. 1, 155; and Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 301], a priest of one particular deity, a flamen (acc. to a false etym. of Varr. and Fest., v. infra, so called from the fillet which he wore around his head). Festus enumerates from the highest flamen, that of Jupiter, to the lowest, that of Pomona, fifteen of these priests;

in the times of the emperors, the deified emperors and other deified persons also had their separate flamens assigned to them: flamines, quod in Latio capite velato erant semper, ac caput cinctum habebant filo, flamines dicti. Horum singuli cognomina habent ab eo deo, quoi sacra faciunt,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 84 Müll.: flamen Dialis dictus, quod filo assidue velatur, indeque appellatur flamen, quasi filamen, Paul. ex Fest. p. 87, 15 Müll.; cf. also Serv. Verg. A. 8, 664:

maximae dignationis Flamen Dialis est inter quindecim flamines, et cum ceteri discrimina majestatis suae habeant, minimi habetur Pomonalis, quod Pomona levissimo fructui agrorum praesidit pomis,

Fest. p. 154, 27 sq.; cf.

Müll. Comm. ad h. l. p. 385, b: DIVIS ALIIS ALII SACERDOTES, OMNIBVS PONTIFICES, SINGVLIS FLAMINES SVNTO,

Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 20:

(Numa) flaminem Jovi assiduum sacerdotem creavit... huic duos flamines adjecit, Marti unum, alterum Quirino,

Liv. 1, 20, 2; cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 14; Aug. Civ. D. 2, 15; cf.

also: est ergo flamen, ut Jovi, ut Marti, ut Quirino, sic divo Julio M. Antonius, etc.,

Cic. Phil. 2, 43, 110:

Tiberius flamines sibi decerni prohibuit,

Suet. Tib. 26; v. Gell. 10, 15:

FLAMEN D. AVGVSTI,

Inscr. Orell. 311; 488; cf.

AVGVSTALIS,

ib. 643; 2366:

DIVI CLAVDII,

ib. 2218; 3651:

PERPETVVS NERONIS AVG.,

ib. 2219:

SALVTIS AVGVSTAE,

ib. 1171:

ROMAE,

ib. 2183:

flaminem prodere,

Cic. Mil. 10, 27:

inaugurare flaminem,

Liv. 27, 8, 4.

flāmen, ĭnis, n. [flo], = pneuma, a blowing, blast, esp. of wind ( poet., most freq. in the plur.; cf.: ventus, flatus, flabra, spiritus, aura).

Lit.:

cur Berecynthiae Cessant flamina tibiae?

Hor. C. 3, 19, 19; Nemes. Ecl. 1, 16: aquilo suo cum flamine, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 424 ed. Vahl.):

Borea, surdas flamine tunde fores,

Ov. Am. 1, 6, 54:

venti,

Lucr. 1, 290:

Cauri,

id. 6, 135; cf. Verg. A. 10, 97.—

Transf., concr., a gale, breeze, wind:

ferunt sua flamina classem,

Verg. A. 5, 832; Ov. F. 3, 599:

flamina conticuere, jacet sine fluctibus aequor,

Val. Fl. 3, 732.

Flāmen, ĭnis, m., a surname in the gens Claudia, Liv. 27, 21, 5.

flāmen (also ‡

FILAMEN,

Inscr. Grut. 227, 6), mis, m. [same root with fla-gro, q. v.; lit., he who burns, sc. offerings, Corss. Ausspr. 1, 84, 146; cf. 2, 86 note; Momms. Röm. Gesch. 1, 155; and Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 301], a priest of one particular deity, a flamen (acc. to a false etym. of Varr. and Fest., v. infra, so called from the fillet which he wore around his head). Festus enumerates from the highest flamen, that of Jupiter, to the lowest, that of Pomona, fifteen of these priests;

in the times of the emperors, the deified emperors and other deified persons also had their separate flamens assigned to them: flamines, quod in Latio capite velato erant semper, ac caput cinctum habebant filo, flamines dicti. Horum singuli cognomina habent ab eo deo, quoi sacra faciunt,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 84 Müll.: flamen Dialis dictus, quod filo assidue velatur, indeque appellatur flamen, quasi filamen, Paul. ex Fest. p. 87, 15 Müll.; cf. also Serv. Verg. A. 8, 664:

maximae dignationis Flamen Dialis est inter quindecim flamines, et cum ceteri discrimina majestatis suae habeant, minimi habetur Pomonalis, quod Pomona levissimo fructui agrorum praesidit pomis,

Fest. p. 154, 27 sq.; cf.

Müll. Comm. ad h. l. p. 385, b: DIVIS ALIIS ALII SACERDOTES, OMNIBVS PONTIFICES, SINGVLIS FLAMINES SVNTO,

Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 20:

(Numa) flaminem Jovi assiduum sacerdotem creavit... huic duos flamines adjecit, Marti unum, alterum Quirino,

Liv. 1, 20, 2; cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 14; Aug. Civ. D. 2, 15; cf.

also: est ergo flamen, ut Jovi, ut Marti, ut Quirino, sic divo Julio M. Antonius, etc.,

Cic. Phil. 2, 43, 110:

Tiberius flamines sibi decerni prohibuit,

Suet. Tib. 26; v. Gell. 10, 15:

FLAMEN D. AVGVSTI,

Inscr. Orell. 311; 488; cf.

AVGVSTALIS,

ib. 643; 2366:

DIVI CLAVDII,

ib. 2218; 3651:

PERPETVVS NERONIS AVG.,

ib. 2219:

SALVTIS AVGVSTAE,

ib. 1171:

ROMAE,

ib. 2183:

flaminem prodere,

Cic. Mil. 10, 27:

inaugurare flaminem,

Liv. 27, 8, 4.

flāmen, ĭnis, n. [flo], = pneuma, a blowing, blast, esp. of wind ( poet., most freq. in the plur.; cf.: ventus, flatus, flabra, spiritus, aura).

Lit.:

cur Berecynthiae Cessant flamina tibiae?

Hor. C. 3, 19, 19; Nemes. Ecl. 1, 16: aquilo suo cum flamine, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 424 ed. Vahl.):

Borea, surdas flamine tunde fores,

Ov. Am. 1, 6, 54:

venti,

Lucr. 1, 290:

Cauri,

id. 6, 135; cf. Verg. A. 10, 97.—

Transf., concr., a gale, breeze, wind:

ferunt sua flamina classem,

Verg. A. 5, 832; Ov. F. 3, 599:

flamina conticuere, jacet sine fluctibus aequor,

Val. Fl. 3, 732.

Flāmen, ĭnis, m., a surname in the gens Claudia, Liv. 27, 21, 5.

victĭma, ae, f. [perh. root vig- of vigeo; with superl. ending; cf. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 509 sq.], a beast for sacrifice adorned with the fillet (vitta), a sacrifice, victim (cf. hostia).

Lit., Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 93; Hor. C. 3, 23, 12; Verg. G. 2, 147; Cic. Att. 1, 13, 1; Caes. B. G. 6, 16; Liv. 45, 7, 1; Ov. M. 7, 162; id. F. 1, 335; Juv. 12, 113; Luc. 1, 611; Sen. Herc. Fur. 923 al.—

Trop., a victim:

quam potestis P. Lentulo mactare victimam gratiorem quam si L. Flacci sanguine illius nefarium in nos omnes odium saturaveritis?

Cic. Fl. 38, 95: se victimam rei publicae praebere, id. Fin. 2, 19, 61:

victima deceptus decipientis ero,

Ov. Am. 3, 3, 22:

me nuptiali victimam feriat die,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 348.

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fascĭa ( fascea), ae, f. [kindred with fascis], a band, bandage, swathe, girth, fillet.

Prop. (to bind up diseased parts of the body; to wrap round the feet to prevent the boots from rubbing them; to bind under the breasts of women; a headband set with pearls, etc.;

syn.: redimiculum, vitta, infula, diadema): devinctus erat fasciis,

Cic. Brut. 60, 217; Suet. Dom. 17; id. Galb. 21; Gell. 16, 3, 4; cf.:

fasciis crura vestiuntur,

Quint. 11, 3, 144: cum vincirentur pedes fasciis, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 537, 5; id. Att. 2, 3, 1 (cf. with Val. Max. 6, 2, 7); Plin. 8, 57, 82, § 221; Dig. 34, 2, 25 (with pedules); Lampr. Alex. Sev. 40 al.:

carnem praependentem fascia substringere,

Suet. Galb. 21:

brachio lanis fasciisque obvoluto,

id. Dom. 17:

inflatum circa fascia pectus eat,

Ov. A. A. 3, 274; Mart. 14, 134:

vides illum Scythiae regem, insigni capitis decorum? si vis illum aestimare, fasciam solve: multum mali sub illa latet,

Sen. Ep. 80 fin.; so of a diadem, Suet. Caes. 79:

puero fasciis opus est, cunis, incunabulis,

i. e. swaddling-cloths, Plaut. Truc. 5, 13:

somniasse se, ovum pendere ex fascia lecti sui cubicularis,

a bed-girth, Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134; Mart. 5, 62, 5; 14, 159:

uvas sole siccatas junci fasciis involvit,

bands of rushes, mats, Plin. 15, 17, 18, § 66: nitor, qualem Bruttia praestabat calidi tibi fascia visci, plaster, Juv. 9, 14.— Prov.: non es nostrae fasciae, i. e. of our rank or condition, Petr. 46.—

Transf.

The casing of a door, Varr. ap. Non. 451, 20; and 86, 10.—

In archit., a wreath round a pillar, a listel, Vitr. 3, 3 med. —

A streak of cloud in the sky:

nil color hic caeli, nil fascia nigra minatur,

Juv. 14, 294.—

A zone of the earth:

orbi terrae in quinque zonas, sive melius fascias dico, discernitur,

Mart. Cap. 6, §§ 602, 607.

fascĭa ( fascea), ae, f. [kindred with fascis], a band, bandage, swathe, girth, fillet.

Prop. (to bind up diseased parts of the body; to wrap round the feet to prevent the boots from rubbing them; to bind under the breasts of women; a headband set with pearls, etc.;

syn.: redimiculum, vitta, infula, diadema): devinctus erat fasciis,

Cic. Brut. 60, 217; Suet. Dom. 17; id. Galb. 21; Gell. 16, 3, 4; cf.:

fasciis crura vestiuntur,

Quint. 11, 3, 144: cum vincirentur pedes fasciis, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 537, 5; id. Att. 2, 3, 1 (cf. with Val. Max. 6, 2, 7); Plin. 8, 57, 82, § 221; Dig. 34, 2, 25 (with pedules); Lampr. Alex. Sev. 40 al.:

carnem praependentem fascia substringere,

Suet. Galb. 21:

brachio lanis fasciisque obvoluto,

id. Dom. 17:

inflatum circa fascia pectus eat,

Ov. A. A. 3, 274; Mart. 14, 134:

vides illum Scythiae regem, insigni capitis decorum? si vis illum aestimare, fasciam solve: multum mali sub illa latet,

Sen. Ep. 80 fin.; so of a diadem, Suet. Caes. 79:

puero fasciis opus est, cunis, incunabulis,

i. e. swaddling-cloths, Plaut. Truc. 5, 13:

somniasse se, ovum pendere ex fascia lecti sui cubicularis,

a bed-girth, Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134; Mart. 5, 62, 5; 14, 159:

uvas sole siccatas junci fasciis involvit,

bands of rushes, mats, Plin. 15, 17, 18, § 66: nitor, qualem Bruttia praestabat calidi tibi fascia visci, plaster, Juv. 9, 14.— Prov.: non es nostrae fasciae, i. e. of our rank or condition, Petr. 46.—

Transf.

The casing of a door, Varr. ap. Non. 451, 20; and 86, 10.—

In archit., a wreath round a pillar, a listel, Vitr. 3, 3 med. —

A streak of cloud in the sky:

nil color hic caeli, nil fascia nigra minatur,

Juv. 14, 294.—

A zone of the earth:

orbi terrae in quinque zonas, sive melius fascias dico, discernitur,

Mart. Cap. 6, §§ 602, 607.

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quā̆dra, ae, f., a square.

In gen.: qui locus gradibus in quadram formatus est, Fest. s. v. Romanam, p. 262 Müll.—

In partic.

In arch.

The lowest and largest member of the base of a pedestal, the foundation-stone, socle, plinth, Vitr. 3, 3.—

Any small member for the separation of larger ones, a platband, list, fillet, Vitr. 3, 3; 10, 2.—

A table to eat from, a dining-table (as these were usually square; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, § 118 Müll.):

patulis nec parcere quadris, of the pieces of bread used as plates,

Verg. A. 7, 115.— Hence, alienā vivere quadrā, to live from another ' s table (as a parasite), Juv. 5, 2. —

A (square) bit, piece, morsel:

et mihi dividuo findetur munere quadra,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 49:

casei,

Mart. 12, 32, 18:

placentae,

id. 6, 75, 1; 9, 92, 18:

panis,

Sen. Ben. 4, 29, 2.

Quā̆dra, ae, m., a Roman surname, e. g. Hostius Quadratus, Sen. Q. N. 1, 16, 1.

quā̆dra, ae, f., a square.

In gen.: qui locus gradibus in quadram formatus est, Fest. s. v. Romanam, p. 262 Müll.—

In partic.

In arch.

The lowest and largest member of the base of a pedestal, the foundation-stone, socle, plinth, Vitr. 3, 3.—

Any small member for the separation of larger ones, a platband, list, fillet, Vitr. 3, 3; 10, 2.—

A table to eat from, a dining-table (as these were usually square; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, § 118 Müll.):

patulis nec parcere quadris, of the pieces of bread used as plates,

Verg. A. 7, 115.— Hence, alienā vivere quadrā, to live from another ' s table (as a parasite), Juv. 5, 2. —

A (square) bit, piece, morsel:

et mihi dividuo findetur munere quadra,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 49:

casei,

Mart. 12, 32, 18:

placentae,

id. 6, 75, 1; 9, 92, 18:

panis,

Sen. Ben. 4, 29, 2.

Quā̆dra, ae, m., a Roman surname, e. g. Hostius Quadratus, Sen. Q. N. 1, 16, 1.

lānĕus, a, um, adj. [id.], woollen, of wool.

Lit.:

pallium,

Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 83:

culcita ob oculos,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 42:

infula,

Verg. G. 3, 487: thorax subuculae, Suet. [p. 1033] Aug. 82:

coma flaminis,

i. e. his woollen fillet, Stat. S. 5, 3, 183: effigies, little woollen figures which were distributed at the Compitalia, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 121 Müll.—

Prov.: dii irati laneos pedes habent,

i. e. the vengeance of the gods comes unperceived, Macr. S. 1, 8, 5; Petr. 44, v. 789.—

Transf.

Covered with a woolly sub stance, downy; of fruits:

pira corio laneo,

Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 55 (Jahn et Corrolana).—

Soft like wool, woolly:

lupus,

a kind of fish, Mart. 13, 89, 1:

latusculum,

Cat. 25, 10.

limbus, i, m., a border that surrounds any thing, a hem, welt, edge, selvage, fringe; a belt, band, girdle.

Lit.:

Sidoniam picto chlamydem circumdata limbo,

Verg. A. 4, 137; id. ib. 2, 616 (this the better read., others nimbo):

indutus chlamydem Tyriam, quam limbus obibat Aureus,

Ov. M. 5, 51; id. ib. 6, 127; 2, 734; Stat. Achill. 1, 330:

frontem limbo velata pudicam,

with a headband, fillet, Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 118; cf.:

imminuerent frontes limbis,

Arn. 2, 72: picto discingit pectora limbo, with a girdle, [p. 1066] belt, Stat. Th. 6, 367.—

Transf.

The zodiac:

extra limbum XII. signorum,

Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 7; id. ap. Prob. ad Verg. E. 6, 31.—

A noose, snare, for catching animals, Grat. Cyn. 25.

pannus, i, m. ( neutr. collat. form pannum, i, Nov. ap. Non. 218, 27.— Dat. and abl. plur. pannibus, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 40 P.; Pompon. ap. Non. 488, 32) [pênos; Dor. panos], a cloth, a garment.

Lit.:

albo Fides Velata panno,

Hor. C. 1, 35, 21; Mart. 2, 46, 9:

eventus viridis panni,

Juv. 11, 198. —Esp. of torn, worn-out clothes, rags, tatters:

pannis annisque obsitus,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 5; Lucr. 6, 1269; Sen. Contr. 1, 6; id. Ep. 20, 8:

rara in tenui facundia panno,

Juv. 7, 145; Petr. 83 fin. —

Transf.

A rag:

unus et alter Adsuitur pannus,

Hor. A. P. 15; id. Epod. 17, 51:

membraque vinxerunt tinctis ferrugine pannis,

Ov. Ib. 235; Sen. Ira, 3, 19, 3; Plin. 29, 6, 36, § 114; Col. 6, 12:

panno rubro fugare armentum,

Gai. Inst. 3, 202.—

A head-band, fillet, Val. Max. 7, 2, n. 5 ext.; 6, 2, n. 7.—

A bag, satchel, Petr. 135.—

A (perh. raglike) substance that grows on the tree aegilops, besides its acorns, Plin. 16, 8, 13, § 33. —

Plur., an infant's swaddling-clothes:

panni infantiae,

Vulg. Job, 38, 9; id. Luc. 2, 12.

pannus, i, m. ( neutr. collat. form pannum, i, Nov. ap. Non. 218, 27.— Dat. and abl. plur. pannibus, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 40 P.; Pompon. ap. Non. 488, 32) [pênos; Dor. panos], a cloth, a garment.

Lit.:

albo Fides Velata panno,

Hor. C. 1, 35, 21; Mart. 2, 46, 9:

eventus viridis panni,

Juv. 11, 198. —Esp. of torn, worn-out clothes, rags, tatters:

pannis annisque obsitus,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 5; Lucr. 6, 1269; Sen. Contr. 1, 6; id. Ep. 20, 8:

rara in tenui facundia panno,

Juv. 7, 145; Petr. 83 fin. —

Transf.

A rag:

unus et alter Adsuitur pannus,

Hor. A. P. 15; id. Epod. 17, 51:

membraque vinxerunt tinctis ferrugine pannis,

Ov. Ib. 235; Sen. Ira, 3, 19, 3; Plin. 29, 6, 36, § 114; Col. 6, 12:

panno rubro fugare armentum,

Gai. Inst. 3, 202.—

A head-band, fillet, Val. Max. 7, 2, n. 5 ext.; 6, 2, n. 7.—

A bag, satchel, Petr. 135.—

A (perh. raglike) substance that grows on the tree aegilops, besides its acorns, Plin. 16, 8, 13, § 33. —

Plur., an infant's swaddling-clothes:

panni infantiae,

Vulg. Job, 38, 9; id. Luc. 2, 12.