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ĕquŭlĕus or ĕcŭlĕus, i, m. dim. [equus], a young horse, a colt, foal.

Lit., Varr., Pompon., and Cic. ap. Non. 105, 11 sq.; Liv. 31, 12.—

Transf.

Eculeos argenteos nobilis aufert, horses wrought in silver, works of art, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 20, § 42; cf.

the sarcastic pun: jactabit se et in his equitabit equuleis,

Emi, pecuniam solvi, on these hobbies, id. ib. § 43.—

As an instrument of torture, a wooden rack in the shape of a horse, Cic. Mil. 21 fin.; id. Poët. Tusc. 3, 28, 67; Curt. 6, 10, 10; Sen. Ep. 67; Amm. 14, 5; Prud. steph. 10, 109 al.

mācĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [prob. from root mag-, massô, to knead; through an adj. mācerus; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 395; cf. also măcer], to make soft or tender, to soften by steeping, to soak, steep, macerate (not in Cic. or Cæs.).

Lit.:

brassicam in aquam,

Cato, R. R. 156, 5:

salsamenta,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 27:

in piscina lupinum,

Col. 1, 6, 21:

semen lacte,

id. 11, 3, 51:

(ramos genistae) marinā aquā,

Plin. 24, 9, 40, § 66:

(siliginem) novem diebus maceratum... subigunt,

id. 18, 11, 27, § 106:

grana (cacaliae) in oleo,

id. 25, 11, 85, § 135:

intestina piscium sale,

id. 31, 7, 43, § 93:

podagrici crura macerantes,

Vitr. 18, 3.—

Transf., to weaken in body or mind, to waste away, enervate.

Of the body:

multos iste morbus homines macerat,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 22; Liv. 26, 13:

quam lentis macerer ignibus,

Hor. C. 1, 13, 8; cf.:

Macedo siti maceratus,

Curt. 5, 13, 24:

pars exercitus ad utilitatem nostram macerata perductaque ad exitiabilem famem,

Vell. 2, 112, 4:

Fabius sic maceravit Hannibalem, ut, etc.,

i. e. Hannibal's army, Flor. 2, 6, 28:

muscus crura vitium situ et veterno macerat,

Col. 4, 22, 6:

cor solum viscerum vitiis non maceratur,

Plin. 11, 37, 69, § 182.—

Of the mind, to fret, vex, torment, distress, torture, pain (syn.:

crucio, torqueo): egemet me concoquo et macero et defatigo,

fret myself, Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 2:

quor me excrucio? quor me macero? quor meam senectutem sollicito?

Ter. And. 5, 3, 15; cf. id. Eun. 1, 2, 107:

noli te macerare,

id. And. 4, 2, 2:

cura satis me lacrumis maceravi,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 1, 8:

hoc me facinus miserum macerat,

id. Mil. 3, 1, 21: infelix sollicitudo persequitur nec oratorem macerat et coquit, * Quint. 12, 10, 77:

quae vos macerent desiderio,

Liv. 5, 54, 3; 26, 13, 8.— Poet., with a causal object-clause:

consimili ratione ab eodem saepe timore macerat invidia, ante oculos illum esse potentem,

Lucr. 3, 75.— Mid., to vex, torment one's self:

maceror interdum, quod sim tibi causa dolendi,

Ov. H. 2, 125: unum hoc maceror et doleo tibi deesse, Terenti, C. Caes. ap. Suet. Vit. Ter. fin.: ex desiderio magis magisque maceror, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 182 P.

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clītellae, ārum, f., a pack-saddle put upon beasts of burden, especially upon asses, a sumpter-saddle, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 91; Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 5, 13, 40; Hor. S. 1, 5, 47; id. Ep. 1, 13, 8; Phaedr. 1, 15, 8.—Prov.: bovi clitellas imponere; v. bos, I.—

Meton.

The name of a place in Rome: clitellae dicuntur etiam locus Romae propter similitudinem, et in Viā Flaminiā loca quaedam devexa subinde et accliva, Paul. ex Fest. p. 59, 15 Müll.—

An instrument of torture: est etiam tormenti genus eodem nomine appellatum, Paul. l. l.

dis-crŭcĭo, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to torture violently, to torment (repeatedly in Plaut. and Cic.; elsewh. rare).

Physically:

aliquem discruciatum necare,

Cic. Phil. 13, 18, 37; Amm. 27, 12, 3.—More freq.,

Mentally, with se or in the mid. form, to torment one's self; to be troubled, vexed, chagrined: quid te discrucias? Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 143, 3:

ego discrucior miser amore,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 58; id. Poen. 1, 2, 155.—With acc. and inf., Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 31; Cic. Att. 14, 6; Cat. 66, 76:

quod enim ipse celeriter arripuit, id cum tarde percipi videt, discruciatur,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 11, 31:

discrucior animi, quia, etc.,

Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 27; so,

animi,

Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 1.

fĭdĭcŭlae, ārum, and rarely fidicula, ae (syncop. fidicla, Prud. steph. 10, 481; 550), f. dim. [2. fides], a small stringed instrument, a small lute or cithern.

Lit.

In gen.:

quid si platani fidiculas ferrent numerose sonantes,

Cic. N. D. 2, 8, 22. —

Esp., Fidicula, a constellation, i. q. Fides or Lyra, the Lyre, Col. 11, 2, 37; Plin. 18, 26, 59, § 222.—

Transf., a cord, line, a sort of instrument of torture (postAug.): apparatus illi reddendus est suus eculei et fidiculae et ergastula et cruces, Sen. de Ira, 3, 3; Suet. Tib. 62; id. Calig. 33; Cod. Th. 9, 35, 1.

fĭdĭcŭlae, ārum, and rarely fidicula, ae (syncop. fidicla, Prud. steph. 10, 481; 550), f. dim. [2. fides], a small stringed instrument, a small lute or cithern.

Lit.

In gen.:

quid si platani fidiculas ferrent numerose sonantes,

Cic. N. D. 2, 8, 22. —

Esp., Fidicula, a constellation, i. q. Fides or Lyra, the Lyre, Col. 11, 2, 37; Plin. 18, 26, 59, § 222.—

Transf., a cord, line, a sort of instrument of torture (postAug.): apparatus illi reddendus est suus eculei et fidiculae et ergastula et cruces, Sen. de Ira, 3, 3; Suet. Tib. 62; id. Calig. 33; Cod. Th. 9, 35, 1.

lăcĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [lacer], to tear to pieces, to mangle, rend, mutilate, lacerate (class., esp. in the trop. sense; syn.: lanio, discerpo).

Lit.:

quin spolies, mutiles, laceres quemquam nacta sis,

Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 8: lacerat lacertum Largi mordax Memmius, Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 240:

corpus uti volucres lacerent in morte feraeque,

Lucr. 3, 880:

membra aliena,

Juv. 15, 102; cf.: lacerato corpore, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Trag. v. 95 Vahl.):

morsu viscera, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 8: ora, comas, vestem lacerat,

Ov. M. 11, 726:

amictus,

Sil. 13, 389:

genas,

Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 51:

verbere terga,

id. F. 2, 695:

Tum autem Syrum impulsorem, vah, quibus illum lacerarem modis,

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 17:

tergum virgis,

Liv. 3, 58; 26, 13:

unguibus cavos recessus luminum,

Sen. Oedip. 968:

quid miserum laceras?

Verg. A. 3, 41:

ferro,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 46:

loricam,

Verg. A. 12, 98: lacerari morsibus saevis canum, Phaedr. 1, 12, 11:

ferae corpus lacerabant,

Petr. 115 sq.:

carnes dentibus,

Vulg. Job, 13, 4; id. Gen. 40, 19.—

Esp.

To break up, to wreck, shatter:

navem Ulixis,

Ov. P. 3, 6, 19:

majorem partem classis,

Vell. 2, 79, 3:

naves,

Liv. 29, 8:

navigia,

Curt. 4, 3, 18:

lecticam,

Suet. Aug. 91.—

To cut up, carve:

obsonium,

Petr. 36:

anserem,

id. 137; 74.—

To waste, plunder: cum Hannibal terram Italiam laceraret atque vexaret, Cato ap. Serv. Verg. E. 6, 7, 6:

orbem,

Juv. 4, 37.—

Trop.

To tear to pieces with words, to censure, asperse, abuse, rail at:

obtrectatio invidiaque, quae solet lacerare plerosque,

Cic. Brut. 42, 156:

optimum virum verborum contumeliis,

id. Phil. 11, 2:

aliquem probris,

Liv. 31, 6:

Pompeium dempto metu lacerant,

Sall. H. 3, 61, 21 Dietsch:

meque vosque male dictis,

id. J. 85, 26:

famam alicujus,

to slander, calumniate, id. 38, 54:

alicujus carmina,

Ov. P. 4, 16, 1:

lacerari crebro vulgi rumore,

Tac. A. 15, 73.—

To distress, torture, pain, afflict:

intolerabili dolore lacerari,

Cic. Ac. 2, 8, 23:

quam omni crudelitate lacerastis,

id. Dom. 23, 59:

quid laceras pectora nostra morā?

Ov. H. 15, 212:

meus me maeror cottidianus lacerat et conficit,

Cic. Att. 3, 8, 2; cf.:

aegritudo lacerat, exest animum planeque conficit,

id. Tusc. 3, 13, 27.—

To ruin, destroy, dissipate, squander, waste:

male suadendo et lustris lacerant homines,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 22:

patriam omni scelere,

Cic. Off. 1, 17, 57:

bonorum emptores, ut carnifices, ad reliquias vitae lacerandas et distrahendas,

to scatter, disperse, Cic. Quint. 15, 50:

pecuniam,

to squander, id. Verr. 2, 3, 70, § 164:

lacerari valde suam rem,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 48; cf.:

bona patria manu, ventre,

to lavish, squander, Sall. C. 14, 2:

diem,

to waste, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 25; id. Stich. 3, 1, 45.

quaesītĭo, ōnis, f. [quaero], a seeking or searching after (post-Aug.).

In gen.:

Psyche quaesitioni Cupidinis intenta, populos circuibat,

App. M. 5, p. 171, 8.—

In partic., a questioning by torture, the question, inquisition:

cum postero ad quaesitionem retraheretur, proripuit se custodibus,

Tac. A. 4, 45; Inscr. Bertol. Antiq. Aquilei. p. 300, n. 419.

simplex, ĭcis (abl., regul. simplici;

simplice,

Lucr. 1, 1013), adj. [sim-; cf. Sanscr. sam, Gr. hama, with Lat. sin-guli, semel, sem-per; and plico].

In gen., simple, plain, uncompounded, unmixed, = haplous (cf.:

sincerus, purus): aut simplex est natura animantis, ut vel terrena sit, vel ignea, etc.... aut concreta est ex pluribus naturis,

Cic. N. D. 3, 14, 34:

natura (opp. mixta, conexa, etc.),

Lucr. 3, 231; Cic. N. D. 2, 11, 29; id. Sen. 21, 78:

si unum ac simplex (genus inperii) probandum sit, regium probem,

id. Rep. 1, 35, 54; cf. id. ib. 2, 23, 43:

finis bonorum, qui simplex esse debet, ex dissimillimis rebus misceri et temperari potest,

id. Off. 3, 33, 119:

(comoedia) Duplex quae ex argumento facta'st simplici,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 6:

(auditus) iter simplex et directum (opp. flexuosum),

Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144:

simplex est manere, illud (in Hispaniam ire) anceps,

free from risk, id. Att. 12, 7, 1:

unum est et simplex aurium judicium,

free from complication, id. Font. 10, 22 (6, 12):

necessitudines,

unqualified, absolute, id. Inv. 2, 57, 171; cf.:

simplex officium atque una est bonorum omnium causa,

id. Sull. 3, 9:

nihil simplici in genere omnibus ex partibus perfectum natura expolivit,

id. Inv. 2, 1, 3:

res aperta ac simplex,

id. Caecin. 2, 5:

ratio veritatis,

id. de Or. 1, 53, 229; Quint. 8, 3, 87:

decem regii lembi simplici ordine intrarunt urbem,

i. e. one by one, Liv. 44, 12, 6; Tac. H. 5, 23; cf.: simplici directā acie, simplicibus ordinibus, single, Auct. B. Alex. 37, 3 sq.:

acies,

id. B. Afr. 13, 2:

simplex acies media, cornibus duplex,

id. ib. 59, 2:

simplici caule,

Plin. 25, 7, 36, § 74: cum in eo ne simplici quidem genere mortis contenti inimici fuissent, i. e. not with his simple death, but must have torture, Liv. 40, 24, 8:

qui necem suam per venenum inimicis promiserat, non gravius quam simplici morte puniit,

Suet. Caes. 74:

qui proculcari nepotem, quam simplici morte interfici maluit,

Just. 44, 4, 4 al.:

nec via mortis erat simplex,

they died in various ways, Verg. G. 3, 482; cf.:

ne simplici quidem morte moriebantur, Sall. ap. Serv. ad Verg. l. l. (H. 3, 25 Dietsch ad loc.): nec modus inserere atque oculos inponere simplex,

Verg. G. 2, 73:

vulnus,

Ov. M. 6, 254:

(tibia) tenuis simplexque foramine pauco,

Hor. A. P. 203:

simplici myrto nihil allabores,

id. C. 1, 38, 5:

esca,

id. S. 2, 2, 73:

jus,

id. ib. 2, 4, 64:

cibus,

Plin. 11, 53, 117, § 282:

aqua,

Ov. Am. 2, 6, 32; Tac. G. 23:

arces dejecit plus vice simplici,

more than once, Hor. C. 4, 14, 13:

verba,

uncompounded, Quint. 1, 5, 3:

voces,

id. 1, 5, 65; but: ornatus verborum duplex, unus simplicium, alius conlocatorum, single, Cic. Or. 24, 80; cf.:

quaedam sunt in rebus simplicia, quaedam complicata,

id. Fat. 13, 30.— Comp.:

quantitas simplicior,

Quint. 11, 3, 15.— Sup.:

ex simplicissimā quāque materiā (opp. multiplex),

Quint. 10, 5, 10:

res,

id. 10, 2, 10.—

In partic., simple in a moral sense, without dissimulation, open, frank, straightforward, direct, guileless, artless, honest, sincere, ingenuous, etc. (cf. candidus).—Of persons:

cum de viro bono quaeritur, quem apertum et simplicem volumus esse, non sunt in disputando vafri, non veteratores, non malitiosi,

Cic. Rep. 3, 16, 26; id. Off. 1, 19, 63:

simplicem et communem et consentientem... eligi par est (opp. multiplex ingenium et tortuosum),

id. Lael. 18, 65; id. Ac. 2, 35, 112:

tuum hominis simplicis pectus vidimus,

id. Phil. 2, 43, 111; Liv. 24, 10; Hor. S. 1, 3, 52; 2, 2, 68; id. C. 2, 8, 14; Ov. H. 12, 90; 16, 285:

credebant simplices ac religiosi homines,

Liv. 24, 10, 6.—Of things:

fidelis et simplex et fautrix suorum regio,

Cic. Planc. 9, 22:

animal sine fraude dolisque, Innocuum, simplex,

Ov. M. 15, 121: animus, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8:

nihil simplex, nihil sincerum,

Cic. Att. 10, 6, 2:

virtus,

Vell. 2, 129, 1:

verba,

Suet. Tib. 61:

cogitationes,

Tac. G. 22.— Comp.:

simplicior quis,

too straightforward, too blunt, Hor. S. 1, 3, 63.— Sup.:

simplicissimi omnium habentur iracundi,

Sen. Ira, 2, 16, 3:

dux,

Vell. 2, 116, 4:

mens,

Petr. 101, 3.—Hence, adv.: simplĭcĭter (acc. to I.), simply, plainly, straightforwardly, naturally, directly, utterly, without reserve, = haplôs:

quorum (verborum) primum nobis ratio simpliciter videnda est, deinde conjuncte,

Cic. de Or. 3, 37, 149:

quaedam genera causarum simpliciter ex suā vi considerantur,

id. Inv. 2, 33, 102:

ipsa inventa exponentur simpliciter sine ullā exornatione,

id. ib. 2, 3, 11:

locuti sunt simpliciter et splendide,

id. de Or. 2, 16, 68:

aut simpliciter quaeritur aut comparate,

id. Top. 22, 84:

si est simpliciter breviterque dicendum,

id. Off. 2, 9, 31; so (with breviter) id. Arch. 12, 32:

illud nomen simpliciter positum, hoc ad aliquid esse,

Quint. 1, 6, 13:

frondes Simpliciter positae, scaena sine arte fuit,

Ov. A. A. 1, 106; Tac. G. 5; cf. comp.:

brevius ac simplicius tradi,

Quint. 8, prooem. §

1: ignorare se dixit, quidnam perplexi sua legatio haberet, cum simpliciter ad amicitiam petendam venissent,

simply, purely, only, Liv. 34, 57, 6:

quidam ludere eum simpliciter, quidam haud dubie insanire, aiebant,

merely, only, id. 41, 20, 4:

Cyrenaica philosophia, quam ille et ejus posteri simpliciter defenderunt,

Cic. de Or. 3, 17, 62:

in sententiā simpliciter e re publicā ferendā,

id. Red. ad Quir. 10, 24 B. and K.— Comp.:

molluscum simplicius sparsum,

Plin. 16, 16, 27, § 68.—

(Acc. to II.) Plainly, openly, frankly, artlessly, ingenuously, uprightly, honestly, candidly: simpliciter et candide, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 1:

simpliciter scripserat quae sentiebat,

Curt. 7, 2, 36:

simpliciter et libere (opp. dissimulanter et furtim),

Plin. Ep. 1, 13, 2:

simpliciter et palam lusit,

Suet. Aug. 71:

me amice simpliciterque reprehenderent,

Plin. Ep. 5, 3, 1:

qui se simpliciter credunt amicis,

id. ib. 6, 22, 1.— Comp.:

simultates simplicius nutrire (opp. callide),

Tac. H. 3, 53 fin.:

quo simplicius tibi confitebor,

Plin. Ep. 5, 19, 1; Quint. 1, 13, 2; Tac. H. 3, 53. — Sup.:

simplicissime loqui,

Tac. H. 1, 15 fin. —

In the singular number:

dicere,

Hier. in Matt. 1, 2 fin.

strangŭlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., = strangalaô (cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 96 Müll.), to throttle, choke; and, in gen., to stifle, suffocate, strangle (syn. suffoco).

Lit. (class.): Domitium strangulavit, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15 fin.:

strangulata laqueo,

Tac. A. 6, 25:

strangulatus in carcere,

Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 8; Flor. 4, 1, 10:

venena quae strangulando necant,

Plin. 20, 7, 26, § 63:

obesi difficultate spirandi strangulantur,

Cels. 2, 1 fin.:

piro strangulatus,

Suet. Claud. 27:

strangulatae in oleo ranae,

Plin. 32, 10, 38, § 114:

cuniculos vapore,

id. 33, 4, 21, § 71:

ne nimio sanguine stranguletur pecus,

Col. 6, 38, 4; Cels. 4, 4:

volvam strangulati,

Plin. 22, 13, 15, § 32:

sinus (togae) nec strangulet nec fluat,

too closely drawn together, Quint. 11, 3, 140.—In an obscene double sense: si dicimus, Ille patrem strangulavit, honorem non praefamur. Sin de Aureliā aliquid aut Lolliā, honos praefandus est, * Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 4. —

Transf., of things: hedera arbores sugit et strangulat, chokes, i. e. kills, makes unfruitful, Plin. 16, 34, 62, § 152:

truncum,

Col. 4, 26, 2:

sata,

Quint. 8, prooem. §

23: solum,

Plin. 17, 8, 4, § 46:

fauces tumentes strangulant vocem,

choke, stifle, constrain, Quint. 11, 3, 20; so,

sonitum,

Plin. 2, 43, 43, § 113.— Poet.:

non tibi sepositas infelix strangulat arca Divitias,

i. e. contains, Stat. S. 2, 2, 150.—

Trop., to torment, torture ( poet. and in post-class. prose):

strangulat inclusus dolor atque exaestuat intus,

Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 63:

voluptates in hoc nos amplectuntur, ut strangulent,

Sen. Ep. 51, 13:

plures nimiā congesta pecunia curā Strangulat,

Juv. 10, 12: venditor omnes causas, quibus strangulatur, exponat, i. e. is forced to the sale, Cod. Th. 12, 3, 1.

taeda ( tēda), ae ( gen. taedaï, Lucr. 6, 897), f. [etym. dub.; cf. taedet], a resinous species of pine-tree, the pitch-pine tree (syn. fax): Pinus combra, Linn.

Lit., Plin. 16, 10, 19, § 44; 16, 11, 21, § 52; 37, 3, 11, § 43;

35, 6, 25, § 41: ceu flamma per taedas equitavit,

Hor. C. 4, 4, 43. —

Transf.

Resinous fir or pine wood, pitch-pine:

cupas taedā ac pice refertas incendunt,

Caes. B. C. 2, 11; 3, 101:

pyrā erectā taedis atque ilice sectā,

Verg. A. 4, 505:

schedias taedā comburere,

Vitr. 7, 10.—

A pitchpine torch, a torch: circumstant cum ardentibus taedis, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 51 Vahl.); cf.:

taedae ardentes Furiarum,

Cic. Pis. 20, 46; id. Rosc. Am. 24, 67:

Ceres dicitur inflammasse taedas eis ignibus, etc.,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 106; cf. Ov. F. 4, 494:

accensis currere taedis,

Prop. 2, 32, 9:

taedas Hymenaeus Amorque Praecutiunt,

Ov. M. 4, 758; so of a nuptial torch, id. H. 4, 121; Verg. A. 4, 18 al.; hence, poet., a wedding, marriage, id. ib. 4, 339; 7, 388; 9, 76; Ov. M. 9, 721; 9, 768; 4, 326; 14, 677;

15, 826: copulari taedis,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 493:

jungere taedas,

Stat. S. 3, 4, 53:

teque mihi taeda pudica dedit,

Ov. H. 6, 134:

sacra conubia fallere taedae,

Mart. 6, 2, 1; and for love, in gen., Prop. 1, 8, 21: taedaeque ad funera versae, torches reversed, in sign of mourning, Sil. 2, 184; 13, 547.—As an instrument of torture:

verbera, carnifices, robur, pix, lamina, taedae,

Lucr. 3, 1017; Juv. 1, 155. —

A pine board, a sawn plank:

dolato confisus ligno, digitis a morte remotus Quattuor, aut septem, si sit latissima taeda,

Juv. 12, 59. —

A small piece of pork or fat, used for religious purposes, Arn. 7, 230.

tortūra, ae, f. [torqueo] (post-class.).

A twisting, wreathing:

sarmenti,

Pall. Febr. 9, 8.—

Torment, torture: ventris, the gripes. colic. = tormina:

tortura et extensio ventris dolorque,

Veg. Vet. 1, 40 fin.; 2, 55.

ungŭla, ae, f. [unguis].

Lit., a hoof, claw, talon; of a horse: totam quatit ungula terram, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 231 Vahl.); Verg. A. 8, 596; cf. Cic. N. D. 3, 5, 11.—Of a swine, Cato, R. R. 158, 1; Cels. 2, 17; 4, 14.—Of oxen:

bisulca,

Plin. 8, 21, 30, § 72.—Of the claws of hens, Plaut. Aul. 3. 4, 8.—Of vultures' and eagles' talons, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 63.—Prov.:

toto corpore atque omnibus ungulis, i. e., as we say,

with tooth and nail, with might and main, Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 56.—

Transf.

Poet., a horse:

cum carceribus missos rapit ungula currus,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 114; Mart. 12, 50, 5.—

A claw, an instrument of torture (late Lat.), Cod. Just. 9, 18, 7 fin.; Prud. steph. 1, 44; Hier. Ep. 1, 3.—

An aromatic spice, Vulg. Ecclus. 24, 21.