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calcar, āris, n. [for carcar; cf. Sanscr. kar, wound; and Lat. calx].I.Lit., a spur as worn on the heel:B.calcaria dicta, quia in calce hominis ligantur, ad stimulandos equos,
Isid. Orig. 20, 16, 6 (class. in prose and poetry;esp. freq. trop.): calcari quadrupedem agitare,
Plaut. As. 3, 3, 118: incendere equum calcaribus, to spur one ' s horse, Hirt. B. G. 8, 48; so,concitare,
Liv. 2, 6, 8; Curt. 7, 4, 18:stimulare,
Val. Max. 3, 2, 9:subdere equo calcaria,
Liv. 2, 20, 2; Curt. 3, 13, 8; 7, 2, 4:calcaribus subditis,
Liv. 4, 19, 4; 4, 33, 7; Curt. 4, 16, 6:equi fodere calcaribus armos,
Verg. A. 6, 881:calcaribus auferre equum,
Sil. 10, 280.—Trop., spur, stimulus, incitement: calcaribus ictus amoris, *Lucr. 5, 1074:II.dicebat Isocrates se calcaribus in Ephoro, contra autem in Theopompo frenis uti solere,
Cic. de Or. 3, 9, 36:alter frenis eget, alter calcaribus,
id. Att. 6, 1, 12; cf. id. Brut. 56, 204; Quint. 2, 8, 11; 10, 1, 74: anticipate atque addite calcar, Varr. ap. Non. p. 70, 13; * Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 217:immensum gloria calcar habet,
Ov. P 4, 2, 36.—So also of the driving winds: ventus calcar admovere, Varr. ap. Non. p. 451, 29.—Prov.:addere calcaria sponte currenti,
to spur a willing horse, Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 1.—Transf., the spur on the leg of the cock, Col. 8, 2, 8.
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