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1 ocrea
ocrea ae, f a greave, leggin (of metal, to protect the legs): leves, V.: sinistrum crus ocreā tectum, L.: ocreas vendente puellā, i. e. the accoutrement of a gladiator, Iu.* * *greave, leg-covering -
2 Ocrea
1.ō̆crĕa, ae, f. [okris, a prominence], x greave or leggin (made of mixed metal, and used to protect the legs of foot-soldiers, and also of hunters and country people;2.it was sometimes worn only on one leg): ocrea, quod opponebatur ob crus,
Varr. L. L. 5, § 118 Müll.: ocrem montem confragosum dicebant antiqui. Hinc ocreae dictae inaequaliter tuberatae, Paul. ex Fest. p. 180 Müll.:ocreas et cristas invenere Cares,
Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 200:leves,
Verg. A. 7, 634. —The Samnites wore a greave only on the left leg:sinistrum crus ocreā tectum,
Liv. 9, 4 (cf. Sil. 8, 419).—Worn by heavy-armed Romans on the right leg, Veg. Mil. 1, 20.— Worn by hunters;v. ocreatus.—By rustics,
Verg. M. 121:ocreas vendente puellā,
i. e. parting with the attire of a gladiator, Juv. 6, 258. -
3 ocrea
1.ō̆crĕa, ae, f. [okris, a prominence], x greave or leggin (made of mixed metal, and used to protect the legs of foot-soldiers, and also of hunters and country people;2.it was sometimes worn only on one leg): ocrea, quod opponebatur ob crus,
Varr. L. L. 5, § 118 Müll.: ocrem montem confragosum dicebant antiqui. Hinc ocreae dictae inaequaliter tuberatae, Paul. ex Fest. p. 180 Müll.:ocreas et cristas invenere Cares,
Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 200:leves,
Verg. A. 7, 634. —The Samnites wore a greave only on the left leg:sinistrum crus ocreā tectum,
Liv. 9, 4 (cf. Sil. 8, 419).—Worn by heavy-armed Romans on the right leg, Veg. Mil. 1, 20.— Worn by hunters;v. ocreatus.—By rustics,
Verg. M. 121:ocreas vendente puellā,
i. e. parting with the attire of a gladiator, Juv. 6, 258. -
4 cnemis
greave; end of verse -
5 cnemis
cnēmis, īdis, f., = knêmis, a greave; fig. of the end of the verse, Mall. Theod. Metr. 4, 12.
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