uncis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →uncus, unca, uncum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
hooked, curved, bent in, crooked, round; barbed;
abl. pl. (all)dat. pl. (all) - Entry →uncus, unci:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
hook, barb, clamp; hook in neck used to drag condemned/executed criminals;
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl.
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...undisscrutarique fretum, siquid mersisset harenis,et nimis adfixos unci conuellere morsus,adductum quotiens non senserat anchora funem. 700hic..."Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...terram volnere victos, morsibus adfixae validis atque unguibus uncis. iactabantque suos tauri pedibusque terebant et latera ac ventres..."Liber IV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...comas. Frons breuis atque modus leuiter sit naribus uncis, Paestanis rubeant aemula labra rosis. Saepe et nolentem cogat..."Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...ultro insecuntur, uulneri occurrunt suo. scrutatur auidus manibus uncis lumina, radice ab ima funditus uulsos simul euoluit orbes..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...pigra et trepida et secanti similis +interim etiam uncis digitis aut a capite deiciatur aut eadem manu supinata..."
Liber Octavus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...exspectatique hymenaei? hunc petii grandaeva diem? vellem unguibus uncis ut volucris possem praedonis in ipsius ora ire ratemque..."Liber Septimus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...superos questuque fatigat Tartara. pulsat humum manibusque immurmurat uncis noctis eram Ditemque ciens, succurrere tandem morte velint ipsumque..."Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...classemcurua sequi, quae iam uento fluctuque secundolapsa Palaestinas uncis confixit harenas. prima duces iunctis uidit consistere castristellus, quam..."