firmamenta
Dictionary entries
- Entry →firmamentum, firmamenti:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
support, prop, mainstay; support group;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...Sabini accepisse a Graecis videntur, qui vincula et firmamenta membrorum neura dicunt, unde nos quoque Latine "nervos" appellamus..."Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...suffusus sanguis discurrensque per totum; detrahentur ossa nervique, firmamenta fluidorum ac labentium. Dies iste quem tamquam extremum reformidas..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...corpore nostro ossa neruique et articuli, firmamenta totius et uitalia, minime speciosa uisu, prius ordinantur, deinde haec..."Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...agitur" appellat: quibus id contineatur "continentia", "quasi firmamenta defensionis, quibus sublatis defensio nulla sit". XIX. At in Partitionibus..."