firmamenta
Dictionary entries
- Entry →firmamentum, firmamenti:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
support, prop, mainstay; support group;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
- A
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...Sabini accepisse a Graecis videntur, qui vincula et firmamenta membrorum neura dicunt, unde nos quoque Latine "nervos" appellamus..." - L
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..." - L
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..." - M
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..."