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
- T
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...tinnimentum est auribus. DAEM. Age accipe illinc alteram clavam, Sparax. age, alter istinc, alter hinc adsistite. adsistite ambo..." - C
Datames
Cornelius Nepos
"...tunica, gerens in capite galeam venatoriam, dextra manu clavam, sinistra copulam, qua vinctum ante se Thuynem agebat..." - G
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..." - P
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..."