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|lshtext=<b>plumbum</b>: i, n. for mlumbum; Gr. μόλμβος, [[μόλυβδος]]>,<br /><b>I</b> [[lead]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: dolia [[plumbo]] vincito, [[Cato]], R. R. 39: [[plumbum]] [[album]], [[tin]], Lucr. 6, 1079; Caes. B. G. 5, 12; called also candidum, Plin. 34, 16, 47, § 157; [[but]] [[plumbum]] nigrum, [[lead]], id. 34, 16, 47, § 159.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A leaden [[ball]] or [[bullet]] ([[poet]].): Balearica [[plumbum]] Funda jacit, Ov. M. 2, 727; Verg. A. 9, 587.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Leaden pipes ([[poet]].): purior in [[vicis]] [[aqua]] tendit rumpere [[plumbum]], Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 20.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[scourge]] [[with]] a leaden [[ball]] at the [[end]] of it ([[poet]].), Prud. στεφ. 10. 116.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A pencil or [[ruler]]: [[membrana]] [[plumbo]] [[directa]], Cat. 22, 7.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., a [[defect]] in the [[eye]] ([[post]]-Aug.): [[plumbum]] ([[quod]] est [[genus]] vitii) ex [[oculo]] tollitur, Plin. 25, 13, 97, § 155.
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