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too long a thread of life

  • 1 stāmen

        stāmen inis, n    [STA-].—In weaving, the foundation threads, basis, warp: gracile, O.: de stamine pampinus exit, O.— A thread, string: stamina pollice versant, O.: digitis dum torques stamina, O.: stamina Pollice sollicitat (of the lyre), O.: Stamina fatalia (of the Fates), O.: queri nimio de stamine, too long a thread of life, Iu.: Puniceo canas stamine vincta comas, i. e. fillet, Pr.
    * * *
    warp (in the loom); thread (on distaff); thread of life spun by the Fates

    Latin-English dictionary > stāmen

  • 2 stamen

    stāmen, ĭnis, n. [sto], the warp in the upright loom of the ancients (cf.: trama, subtemen).
    I.
    Lit., Varr. L. L. 5, § 113 Müll.; Tib. 1, 3, 86; Ov. M. 6, 54 sq.; 6, 576; 4, 275; 4, 397 al.—
    II.
    Transf., in gen.
    A.
    A thread hanging from the distaff:

    aut ducunt lanas aut stamina pollice versant,

    Ov. M. 4, 34; 4, 179; 4, 221;

    12, 475: operoso stamine,

    id. A. A. 1, 695:

    et minuent plenas stamina nostra colos,

    id. H. 3, 76:

    deducere plenā stamina longa colu,

    Tib. 1, 3, 86; 1, 6, 78:

    digitis dum torques stamina duris,

    Ov. H. 9, 79.—Of the threads of the Parcae, Tib. 1, 7, 2; 3, 3, 36; Ov. M. 8, 453; id. Tr. 5, 13, 24; 4, 1, 63; Luc. 3, 19; 6, 777. —Hence, de legibus queri Fatorum et nimio de stamine, too long a thread of life, Juv. 10, 252.— Poet.:

    fallebam stamine somnum,

    i. e. by spinning, Prop. 1, 3, 41.—
    B.
    Of threads of other sorts;

    thus, of the thread of Ariadne,

    Prop. 4 (5), 4, 42;

    of the spider,

    Ov. M. 6, 145; Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 80;

    of a net,

    id. 19, 1, 2, § 11; of the stamina of the lily, id. 21, 5, 11, § 23; the fibres of wood, id. 16, 38, 73, § 186; the strings of an instrument, Ov. M. 11, 169.—
    C.
    (Pars pro toto.) A cloth made of threads; so the fillets of priests, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 52; Sil. 3, 25.— A garment, Claud. in Eutr. 1, 304; id. Laud. Stil. 2, 346; id. Rapt. Pros. 2, 34.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > stamen

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