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|lshtext=<b>taenĭa</b>: ae (<br /><b>I</b> abl. plur. taeniis; dissyl., Verg. A. 5, 269), f., = [[ταινία]],> a [[band]], [[ribbon]], [[fillet]]; a [[head]]-[[band]], [[hair]]-[[band]], bandeau (syn. [[vitta]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit. ([[only]] [[poet]].): taenias Graecam vocem sic interpretatur [[Verrius]], ut dicat [[ornamentum]] esse laneum capitis honorati, ut [[sit]] [[apud]] Caecilium in Androgyno: [[sepulcrum]] plenum taeniarum, ita ut solet, et [[alias]]: dum taeniam, qui [[volnus]] vinciret, petit. [[Ennius]] in Alexandro: [[volans]] de [[caelo]] cum coronā et taeniis (Trag. Rel. v. 33 Rib.): [[Attius]] in Neoptolemo: (tumulum) decorare est [[satius]] [[quam]] urbem taeniis, Fest. p. 360 Müll. (cf. Trag. Rel. v. 472 Rib.): puniceis ibant evincti tempora taeniis, Verg. A. 5, 269; 7, 352: [[taenia]] ne madidos [[violet]] bombycina crines, Mart. 14, 24, 1.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., of things of a [[like]] [[shape]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A tape-[[worm]]: Taenia [[solium]] and [[vulgaris]], Linn.; [[Cato]], R. R. 126; Plin. 11, 33, 39, § 113; 31, 9, 45, § 102; Ser. Samm. 30, 563.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A [[kind]] of [[fish]], the [[ribbon]]-[[fish]]: Cepola [[taenia]], Linn.; Plin. 32, 7, 24, § 76 (Jahn, [[thynnus]]).—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> In archit., the [[fillet]] [[which]] separates the [[Doric]] frieze from the architrave, Vitr. 4, 3 med.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> A [[streak]] in [[paper]], Plin. 13, 12, 25, § 81 (Sillig).—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>E</b> A [[row]] of projecting rocks in the [[sea]], a [[reef]], Plin. 3, prooem. § 4. — Hence the [[purple]]-[[fish]] [[found]] on these rocks are called taeniense [[genus]] purpurarum, Plin. 9, 37, 61, § 131.
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