mappam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →mappa, mappae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
white cloth; napkin; handkerchief; cloth dropped as start signal; tablecloth;
acc. sg.
Examples
Liber XII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...fuit; Tu licet observes dextram teneasque sinistram, Inveniet, mappam qua ratione trahat: Cervinus gelidum sorbet sic halitus anguem..."Liber VII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...ostreorum rapere liuidos cirros. Buccis placentae sordidam linit mappam; illic et uuae conlocantur ollares et Punicorum pauca grana..."- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...excluserat caput, circaque oneratas veste cervices laticlaviam immiserat mappam fimbriis hinc atque illinc pendentibus. Habebat etiam in minimo..." - M
Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quorum altero tamen Cicero, altero Horatius utitur. Et "mappam" circo quoque usitatum nomen Poeni sibi vindicant, et "gurdos..."