falx
Dictionary entries
- Entry →falx, falcis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
sickle. scythe; pruning knife; curved blade; hook for tearing down walls;
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
Liber XIV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...vena. Stridentem gelidis hunc Salo tinxit aquis. XXXIV Falx. Pax me certa ducis placidos curvavit in usus. Agricolae..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...rastris, non glebam prono convellit vomere taurus, non falx attenuat frondatorum arboris umbram, squalida desertis rubigo infertur aratris..."