pilas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pilo, pilare, pilavi, pilatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
grow hairy; depilate; plunder;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd - Entry →pila, pilae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
ball (play/decorative); sphere; mortar, vessel in which things are pounded;; squared pillar; pier, pile; low pillar monument; funerary monument w/cavity;
acc. pl.
Examples
- T
Mostellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...industrior de iuventute erat arte gymnastica: disco, hastis, pila, cursu, armis, equo victitabam volup, parsimonia et duritia discipulinae..." - T
Captivi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...scit pater; enim vero di nos quasi pilas homines habent. rationem habetis, quo modo unum amiserit. postquam belligerant..." - T
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...perhibebantur improbi. ibi cursu luctando hasta disco pugilatu pila saliendo sese exercebant magis quam scorto aut saviis..." - M
Liber X
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Parthoque uerendus.pro pudor, Eoi propius timuere sarisasquam nunc pila timent populi. licet usque sub Arctonregnemus Zephyrique domos terrasque..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...exploratum populis Hammona relinquens. ipse manu sua pila gerit, praecedit anheli militis ora pedes, monstrat tolerare labores..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...sarisasBactraque Medorum sedem murisque superbamAssyrias Babylona domos. nec pila timentur 300nostra nimis Parthis, audentque in bella uenireexperti Scythicas..." - M
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...clausit;excussit cristas galeis capulosque solutisperfudit gladiis ereptaque pila liquauit,aetherioque nocens fumauit sulpure ferrum..." - T
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...mihi, militis odiosa ingrataque habita. totus gaudeo. mea pila est: si repudiatur miles, mulier mecum erit. salvos..."
