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|lshtext=<b>uncus</b>: a, um, adj. 1. [[uncus]],<br /><b>I</b> [[hooked]], [[bent]] in, [[crooked]], [[curved]], [[barbed]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]; syn.: [[curvus]], [[recurvus]]): [[uncus]] [[hamus]], Ov. M. 15, 476; also called unca [[aera]], id. P. 2, 7, 10: cornua (tauri), Prop. 2, 5, 19: [[aratrum]], Verg. G. 1, 19; Ov. M. 5, 341; 7, 210; cf.: [[vomer]] aratri, Lucr. 1, 313; also called [[dens]], Verg. G. 2, 423: [[pedes]] (harpyiae), id. A. 3, 233: ungues, Lucr. 5, 1322: [[manus]], Verg. G. 2, 365: digiti, Col. 7, 11, 2: [[cauda]], Ov. M. 15, 371: [[labrum]], Lucr. 4, 588; 5, 1407.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.: [[unco]] non alligat [[ancora]] morsu, Verg. A. 1, 169: [[avis]] Minervae, i. e. [[with]] [[crooked]] [[beak]] and talons, Stat. Th. 3, 507; cf. alites, id. ib. 12, 212.<br /><b>uncus</b>: i, m. Sanscr. [[root]] ak, ankami, [[bend]]; Gr. [[ἀγκών]], [[ὄγκος]]>; cf.: [[ancus]], [[ungulus]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[hook]], [[barb]].<br /><b>I</b> In gen., Liv. 30, 10, 16; Col. 3, 18, 2: ferrei, [[Cato]], R. R. 10; 13.—As an [[attribute]] of Necessitas, Hor. C. 1, 35, 20.—Poet., an [[anchor]], Val. Fl. 2, 428.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[hook]] [[that]] [[was]] fastened to the [[neck]] of condemned criminals, and by [[which]] [[they]] were dragged to the [[Tiber]], Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 5; id. rab. Perd. 5, 16; Ov. Ib. 168; Juv. 10, 66; cf.: et [[bene]] cum fixum [[mento]] discusseris uncum, Nil erit hoc: rostro te premet [[ansa]] suo, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 141. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A surgical [[instrument]], Cels. 7, 29.
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