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..."- G
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..."