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..."- L
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..." - L
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..." - M
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..."