uncum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →uncus, unca, uncum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
hooked, curved, bent in, crooked, round; barbed;
acc. sg. (m.)acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.) - Entry →uncus, unci:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
hook, barb, clamp; hook in neck used to drag condemned/executed criminals;
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
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..."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..."
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..."
