furcula: Difference between revisions

From LSJ

κάμψαι διαύλου θάτερον κῶλον πάλινbend back along the second turn of the race, turning the bend and coming back for the second leg of the double run, run the homeward course, retrace one's steps

Source
(6_7)
(No difference)

Revision as of 08:31, 13 August 2017

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

furcŭla: ae, f.
dim. furca, II..
I A forked prop to support a wall when undermined: suspenso furculis ab hostibus muro, Liv. 38, 7, 9.—
II Furculae Caudinae, two lofty (fork-shaped) defiles near Caudium, where the Roman army, in the year A.U.C. 434, was hemmed in by the Samnites, now Casale di Forchia, Liv. 9, 2; 11; Flor. 1, 16; v. Caudium.