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|lshtext=<b>cuspis</b>: ĭdis, f. etym. dub.,<br /><b>I</b> a [[point]], the [[pointed]] [[end]] of [[any]] [[thing]] (freq., esp. in the poets).<br /><b>I</b> Prop.: asserum, * Caes. B. C. 2, 2: vomeris, Plin. 18, 18, 48, § 172. acuta contorum, Verg. A. 5, 208: acuta teli, Ov. M. 1, 470: hastae, id. ib. 5, 9; 6, 78: jaculi, id. ib. 7, 673: medicata, Sil. 13, 197: aquilae, the [[pointed]] [[end]] of the [[standard]]; Gr. [[στύραξ]], Suet. Caes. 62 et saep.—<br /><b>II</b> [[Meton]]. ([[pars]] pro toto).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[spear]], [[javelin]], [[lance]], Verg. A. 11, 41; 12, 386; Hor. C. 4, 6, 8; id. S. 2, 1, 14; Ov. M. 6, 673; Liv 4, 38, 3 and 4; 8, 7, 9 and 11; Plin. 34, 15, 45, § 152 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A [[spit]], Mart. 14, 221, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> The [[trident]] of [[Neptune]], Ov. M. 12, 580; cf. [[triplex]], id. ib. 12, 594; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 181.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> The [[sting]] of a [[bee]], Plin. 21, 13, 45, § 78.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>E</b> A [[scorpion]]'s [[sting]], Ov. M. 2, 199.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>F</b> A [[pointed]] [[tube]], Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 4.
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