manipulum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →manipulus, manipuli:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
maniple, company of soldiers, one third of a cohort; handful, bundle;
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Decimius Flauus tribunus militum signo arrepto primi hastati manipulum eius signi sequi se iussisset. duxit ubi maxime tumultum..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...inops pro locuplete et iners pro strenuo in manipulum redibat, ac rursus alius atque alius, eadem egestate..."