fidicula
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fidicula, fidiculae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Cassell's Latin Dictionary
little lyre or lute (usu. pl.); an instrument for torture;
abl. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
Liber V
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...grauem uoltum similis Catoni Tullioque Brutoque, exprimere, Rufe, fidiculae licet cogant, haue Latinum, chaire non potest Graecum..."ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...obscena stipitem egerunt, alii brachia patibulo explicuerunt; uideo fidiculas, uideo uerbera, et ~membris singulis articulis~ singula ~docuerunt~ machinamenta..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...attonita apparatusque illi reddendus est suus, eculei et fidiculae et ergastula et cruces et circumdati defossis corporibus ignes..."XIX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...ideo enim eculeos movebam artifex senex, ten ebam fidiculas ratione saevitiae, ut leviter sedibus suis remota compago..."