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Dictionary entries

  • uncus, unca, uncum:

    Adjective · 1st declension

    Frequency:
    Lesser

    = hooked, curved, bent in, crooked, round; barbed;

    Entry →
    acc. sg. (m.)
    acc. sg. (n.)
    nom. sg. (n.)
    voc. sg. (n.)
  • uncus, unci:

    Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension

    Frequency:
    Lesser

    = hook, barb, clamp; hook in neck used to drag condemned/executed criminals;

    Entry →
    acc. sg.
    gen. pl.

Examples

  • D

    Satura XIII

    Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE

    "...laqueum uestigia noster perfidus et nigri patietur carceris uncum aut maris Aegaei rupem scopulosque frequentes exulibus magnis. poena..."
  • L

    Liber II

    Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM

    "...loco carcerem et cruces et eculeos et uncum et adactum per medium hominem qui per os emergeret stipitem..."
  • Gaius Valerius Flaccus

    Liber Octavus

    Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA

    "...petunt rostra omnia puppem. princeps navalem nodosi roboris uncum arripit et longa Styrus prospectat ab unda coniugio atque..."

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