caduceum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →caduceus, caducei:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
herald's staff carried as token of peace/truce; wand of Mercury;
acc. sg.gen. pl. - Entry →caduceum, caducei:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
herald's staff carried as token of peace/truce; wand of Mercury;
acc. sg.gen. pl.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...fuit populum Romanum misisse ad eos hastam et caduceum, signa duo belli aut pacis, ex quis, utrum vellent..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...autem venalicium titulis pictis, et ipse Trimalchio capillatus caduceum tenebat Minervamque ducente Romam intrabat. Hinc quemadmodum ratiocinari didicisset..." - G
Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...vero aurea barba, fulmen tenens aut fuscinam aut caduceum deorum insignia, atque etiam Veneris cultu conspectus est. Triumphalem..." - T
Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ultima adhiberetur vis, ipsos se in deditionem consuli caduceum praeferentes permisisse auctores sunt Vitruviumque ab suis traditum. Senatus..."