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|lshtext=<b>trabs</b>: trăbis ([[ante]]-[[class]]. collat. form of the nom. trăbes, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 75; id. Fat. 15, 35; id. Top. 16, 61, or Trag. v. 281 Vahl.; Cic. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 33 Müll., or Ann. v. 598 Vahl.), f. [[τράπηξ]]>.<br /><b>I</b> Lit., a [[beam]], a [[timber]]: tigna trabesque, Lucr. 2, 192 sq.; v. [[tignum]]; Caes. B. G. 2, 29; 3, 13; 7, 23; id. B. C. 2, 9; Plin. 16, 38, 73, § 184; Gell. 1, 13, 17; Ov. M. 3, 78.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[tree]]: [[silva]] [[frequens]] trabibus, Ov. M. 8, 329; cf. id. ib. 14, 360: securi Saucia [[trabs]] [[ingens]], id. ib. 10, 373; cf. Varr. ap. Non. 178, 31; Prop. 3 (4), 22, 38: fraxineae, Verg. A. 6, 181: [[lucus]] trabibus [[obscurus]] acernis, id. ib. 9, 87: Val. Fl. 5, 640. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Any [[thing]] made of beams or timbers.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Very freq., a [[ship]] or [[vessel]]: abiegna [[trabes]], Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 75: [[trabes]] rostrata per [[altum]], id. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 33: jam [[mare]] turbari trabibus ... vide bis, Verg. A. 4, 566: ut trabe Cypria Myrtoum [[pavidus]] [[nauta]] secet [[mare]], Hor. C. 1, 1, 13; Ov. P. 1, 3, 76: Thessalica, Sen. Agam. 120.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[roof]]: sub trabe citreā, Hor. C. 4, 1, 20; so in plur., id. ib. 2, 18, 3; 3, 2, 28. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A battering - [[ram]], [[ballista]], etc., Val. Fl. 6, 383.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[javelin]], Stat. Th. 5, 566; 9, 124.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>5</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[club]], [[cudgel]], Stat. Th. 1, 621.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>6</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[table]], Mart. 14, 91, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>7</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[torch]], Sen. Herc. Fur. 103. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>8</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In mal. [[part]]. = [[mentula]], Cat. 28, 10.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> A [[fiery]] [[phenomenon]] in the heavens, a [[meteor]]: emicant et [[trabes]] simili [[modo]], quas δοκοὺς vocant, [[qualis]] cum Lacedaemonii classe victi [[imperium]] Graeciae amisere, Plin. 2, 26, 26, § 96: [[trabes]] et globi et faces et ardores, Sen. Q. N. 1, 1, 5; 1, 1, 15; 1, 15, 4; 7, 4, 3-5; 7, 5, 21; id. Ep. 94, 56.
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