columellae
Dictionary entries
- Entry →columella, columellae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
small column/pillar; pivot of oil-mill; stanchion of catapult; column tombstone;
dat. sg.gen. sg.loc. sg.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...tibi Maeonio quoque carmine majus habetur, "Lucili columella hic situ' Metrophanes"; attonitusque legis "terrai frugiferai", Accius et quidquid..."- G
Liber II
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...distantes inter se pedes IIII collocantur, inque eis columellae pedum in altitudinem V defiguntur. Has inter se capreolis..." - G
Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...capite stibadium candido marmore vite protegitur; vitem quattuor columellae Carystiae subeunt. Ex stibadio aqua velut expressa cubantium pondere..."