malleos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →malleus, mallei:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
hammer; mallet, maul; (also medical for the inner ear bone);
acc. pl.nom. sg.
Examples
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Ligneam, saepe tritam, saepe fixam, saepe excussam malleo; quasi supellex pellionis, palus palo proxumust. ER. Iam, amabo, desiste..."Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Admota altaribus victima succinctus poparum habitu elato alte malleo cultrarium mactavit. Lautiore convivio effusus subito in cachinnos consulibus..."Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...rectoribus quam ab hoste interfecti. fabrile scalprum cum malleo habebant; id, ubi saeuire beluae ac ruere in suos..."