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|lshtext=<b>dextĕra</b>: or [[dextra]], ae, f. (as in [[most]] langg.; cf. Gr. [[δεξιά]], Germ. [[die]] Rechte, etc.; sc. [[manus]]),<br /><b>I</b> the [[right]] [[hand]] (freq. a [[sign]] of [[greeting]], of [[fidelity]]; a [[symbol]] of [[strength]], [[courage]], etc.).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Prop.: [[cedo]] sis dexteram, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 102; Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 84: [[quod]] ego te per hanc dextram oro, id. And. 1, 5, 54; cf.: per dexteram te istam oro, [[quam]], etc., Cic. Deiot. 3; cf. also Sall. J. 10, 3; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 94 al.; and: dexterae, quae fidei testes esse solebant, Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5: fidem [[more]] Persarum [[dextra]] [[dare]], Nep. Dat. 10, 1: vos libertatem [[atque]] patriam in dextris vostris portare, Sall. C. 58, 8; cf. Verg. A. 2, 291; Hor. Epod. 7, 10; Ov. M. 13, 176; Sil. 1, 77 et saep.: miserat [[civitas]] Lingonum vetere instituto dona legionibus dextras, hospitii [[insigne]], a [[pair]] of hands clasped in [[each]] [[other]], made of [[gold]], [[silver]], etc., Tac. H. 1, 54; cf. id. ib. 2, 8 (so in Gr. δεξιὰν πέμπειν and φέρειν).— Prov.: [[dextra]] [[tenet]] calamum; strictum [[tenet]] altera [[ferrum]], Ov. H. 11, 3.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> The [[right]] [[side]]: [[picus]] et [[cornix]] est ab [[laeva]], [[corvus]] [[porro]] ab [[dextera]], Plaut. As. 2, 1, 12; cf. Cic. Div. 1, 39, 85: ab [[dextera]], Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 89; id. Mil. 3, 1, 13; Ter. And. 4, 3, 19; Sall. C. 59, 2; Ov. M. 2, 5 al.: [[ilico]] equites jubet [[dextera]] inducere, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 88; so, dexterā, id. ib. 177; Caes. B. C. 2, 15, 3; Sall. J. 101, 9; Liv. 21, 43 et saep.: specta ad dexteram, Plaut. Poen. 3, 4, 1; so, ad dexteram, id. Rud. 1, 2, 67; Ter. And. 4, 4, 12; Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22 fin.; Cic. Univ. 13; Caes. B. C. 1, 69, 3 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Poet., the [[hand]], in gen.: omne [[sacrum]] rapiente [[dextra]], Hor. Od. 3, 3, 52; id. S. 2, 1, 54.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., [[pledge]] of [[friendship]]: renovare dextras, Tac. A. 2, 58; cf.: [[Graecia]] tendit dexteram Italiae suumque ei [[praesidium]] pollicetur, Cic. Phil. 10, 4, 9: nec veriti dominorum fallere dextras, Verg. A. 6, 613; cf. id. ib. 3, 610; Nep. Dat. 10, 1; Just. 11, 15, 13: ne fas, fidem, dextras, deos testes fallat, Liv. 29, 24.
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