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
Mostellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...industrior de iuventute erat arte gymnastica: disco, hastis, pila, cursu, armis, equo victitabam volup, parsimonia et duritia discipulinae..."Captivi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...scit pater; enim vero di nos quasi pilas homines habent. rationem habetis, quo modo unum amiserit. postquam belligerant..."Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...perhibebantur improbi. ibi cursu luctando hasta disco pugilatu pila saliendo sese exercebant magis quam scorto aut saviis..."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..."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..."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..."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..."Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...mihi, militis odiosa ingrataque habita. totus gaudeo. mea pila est: si repudiatur miles, mulier mecum erit. salvos..."
