clavam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →clava, clavae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
club, cudgel; staff; knotty/rough/wooden stick; exercise sword; Spartan scytale;; golf-club; (Cal);
acc. sg.
Examples
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...tinnimentum est auribus. DAEM. Age accipe illinc alteram clavam, Sparax. age, alter istinc, alter hinc adsistite. adsistite ambo..."Datames
Cornelius Nepos
"...tunica, gerens in capite galeam venatoriam, dextra manu clavam, sinistra copulam, qua vinctum ante se Thuynem agebat..."Virgil
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE POETIS
"...eadem furta temptarent? Verum intellecturos facilius esse Herculi clavam quam Homero versum subripere. Et tamen destinasse secedere..."Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...erat, pharetraque gravis spolioque leonis— nam clavam et curvos trans ripam miserat arcus— 'quandoquidem coepi, superentur flumina' dixit..."