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|lshtext=<b>sulcus</b>: a, um, adj., [[only]] [[ficus]] sulca,<br /><b>I</b> an [[unknown]] [[species]] of [[fig]]-[[tree]], Col. 5, 10, 11.<br /><b>sulcus</b>: i, m. Gr. [[ὁλκός]],> from [[ἕλκω]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[furrow]] made by the [[plough]] (cf.: [[lira]], [[porca]]): sulci appellantur, quā [[aratrum]] ducitur, vel sationis faciendae causā vel urbis condendae, vel [[fossura]] rectis lateribus, ubi arbores serantur: [[quod]] [[vocabulum]] [[quidam]] ex Graeco fictum, [[quia]] [[illi]] dicant ὁλκόν,> Fest. p. 302 Müll.: quā [[aratrum]] vomere lacunam striam facit, [[sulcus]] vocatur: [[quod]] est [[inter]] duos sulcos elata [[terra]], dicitur [[porca]], Varr. R. R. 1, 29, 3: [[sulco]] [[vario]] ne ares, [[Cato]], R. R. 61, 1: cum [[sulcus]] altius esset [[impressus]], Cic. Div. 2, 23, 50: ducere ... infodere sulcum, Col. 2, 2, 27; Juv. 7, 48: duci [[sarculo]] sulcum, Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 327: proscindere jugerum [[sulco]], id. 18, 19, 49, § 178: [[sulco]] tenui arare, id. 18, 18, 47, § 170: sulcum patefacere [[aratro]], Ov. M. 3, 104: sulcis committere semina, Verg. G. 1, 223: mandare hordea sulcis, id. E. 5, 36: telluri infindere sulcos, id. ib. 4, 33: semina longis Cerealia sulcis Obruere, Ov. M. 1, 123: [[herba]] Cerealibus obruta sulcis, id. Tr. 3, 12, 11.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf. ([[mostly]] [[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[ploughing]]: [[hordeum]] altero [[sulco]] seminari debet, Col. 2, 9, 15: [[quarto]], id. 2, 12, 8: [[quinto]], Plin. 18, 20, 49, § 181: [[nono]], Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 10.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of things resembling a [[furrow]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[long]], [[narrow]] [[trench]], a [[ditch]], [[Cato]], R. R. 33, 4; 43, 1; Col. 2, 8, 3; Plin. 19, 4, 20, § 60; Verg. G. 2, 24; 2, 289; id. A. 1, 425 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[rut]], [[track]], in gen.: cursu rotarum saucia clarescunt [[nubila]] [[sulco]], Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olymp. 102.—Esp., of the [[furrow]] [[cut]] by a [[vessel]]: infindunt sulcos, Verg. A. 5, 142: delere sulcos, Stat. Th. 6, 415: canebant aequora [[sulco]], Val. Fl. 3, 32.—Of a [[wrinkle]] of the [[skin]], Mart. 3, 72, 4: genarum, Claud. in Eutr. 1, 110.—Of the [[trail]] of a [[meteor]], Verg. A. 2, 697; Luc. 5, 562.—Of wounds: in pectore, Claud. Rapt. Prov. 3, 425.—Of the [[private]] parts of a [[woman]], Lucr. 4, 1272; Verg. G. 3, 136; App. Ἀνεχ. 16.
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