cratem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cratis, cratis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
wickerwork; bundle of brush, fascine; framework, network, lattice; bush-harrow;
acc. sg.
Examples
- M
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...postquam uirtus incerta uirorumperpetuam rupit defesso milite cratem 485singula continuis cesserunt ictibus arma.tunc adoperta leui procedit uinea terra..." - L
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...inpenetrabilia ventis sunt? Quid ergo? non quilibet virgeam cratem texuerunt manu et vili obliverunt luto, deinde [de] stipula..." 
Liber Secundus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...Lemni puppes tenui contexere canna ausus et inducto cratem defendere tergo laeta mari tum signa refert plenasque movebant..."- P
Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...lacerto fraxineam misit contentis viribus hastam, quae laterum cratem praerupit et ossibus haerens intremuit: trahit ille manu sine..."