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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...excluserat caput, circaque oneratas veste cervices laticlaviam immiserat mappam fimbriis hinc atque illinc pendentibus. Habebat etiam in minimo..."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..."