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|lshtext=<b>bracchĭum</b>: (less correctly brāchĭ-um;<br /><b>I</b> gen. bracchi, Lucr. 6, 434), ii, n. perh. kindr. [[with]] Gr. [[βραχίων]] | |lshtext=<b>bracchĭum</b>: (less correctly brāchĭ-um;<br /><b>I</b> gen. bracchi, Lucr. 6, 434), ii, n. perh. kindr. [[with]] Gr. [[βραχίων]]; [[but]] cf. Sanscr. bāhu; [[like]] [[frango]], Sanscr. bhang, Bopp, Gloss. p. 239 a, the [[arm]]; [[particularly]],<br /><b>I</b> Lit., the [[forearm]], from the [[hand]] to the [[elbow]] ([[while]] [[lacertus]] is the [[upper]] [[arm]], from the [[elbow]] to the [[shoulder]]), Lucr. 4, 830; 6, 397: bracchia et lacerti, Ov. M. 1, 501; 1, 550 sq.: subjecta lacertis bracchia, id. ib. 14, 305; Curt. 8, 9, 21; 9, 1, 29: (feminae) nudae bracchia et lacertos, Tac. G. 17 (opp. [[umerus]]); Cels. 8, 1, § 79 sqq.; 8, 10, § 55 sqq.—Far oftener,<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br /> <b>A</b> In gen., the [[arm]], the [[whole]] [[arm]], from the [[shoulder]] to the fingers, Pac. ap. Non. p. 87, 26, and Varr. L. L. 5, 7, p. 4 Müll.; id. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4: [[quod]] eum [[bracchium]] fregisse diceret, Cic. de Or. 2, 62, 253; cf. Cels. 1, 10, 3: multi ut diu jactato bracchio praeoptarent [[scutum]] manu emittere et [[nudo]] corpore pugnare, Caes. B. G. 1, 25: [[bracchium]] (sc. dextrum) cohibere togā, Cic. Cael. 5, 11 (cf. Sen. Contr. 5, 6: [[bracchium]] [[extra]] togam exserere): [[eodem]] ictu bracchia ferro exsolvunt (i.e. venas incidunt, as, [[soon]] [[after]], crurum et poplitum venas abrumpit), Tac. A. 15, 63; 1, 41.—Of embraces: collo [[dare]] bracchia [[circum]], to [[throw]] the [[arms]] [[round]] the [[neck]], Verg. A. 6, 700; cf.: circumdare collo, Ov. M. 9, 459: implicare collo, id. ib. 1, 762: inicere collo, id. ib. 3, 389: cervici [[dare]], Hor. C. 3, 9, 2: lentis adhaerens bracchiis, id. Epod. 15, 6: Hephaestionis [[bracchium]] hastā ictum est, Curt. 4, 16, 31: ut in jaculando bracchia reducimus, Quint. 10, 3, 6: sinisteriore bracchio, Suet. Dom. 17: bracchia ad superas extulit auras, Verg. A. 5, 427: alternaque jactat Bracchia protendens ([[Dares]]), id. ib. 5, 377: juventus horrida bracchiis, Hor. C. 3, 4, 50.—Of a [[rower]]: si bracchia [[forte]] remisit, Verg. G. 1, 202: matri bracchia tendere, Ov. M. 3, 723: patrio tendens bracchia [[caelo]], id. ib. 9, 210: tendens ad [[caelum]] bracchia, id. ib. 9, 293: precando Bracchia sustulerat, id. ib. 6, 262.—Prov.: dirigere bracchia [[contra]] Torrentem, to [[swim]] [[against]] the [[current]], Juv. 4, 89.—<br /> <b>2</b> Of the [[movement]] of the [[arms]] in [[speaking]]: bracchii projectione in contentionibus, contractione in remissis, Cic. Or. 18, 59; so Quint. 11, 3, 84: [[extento]] bracchio [[paululum]] de gestu addidit, Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242: demissa bracchia, Quint. 2, 13, 9: a latere [[modice]] remota, id. 11, 3, 159: ut bracchio [[exserto]] introspiciatur [[latus]], id. 11, 3, 118: [[aliqui]] transversum [[bracchium]] proferunt et [[cubito]] pronunciant, id. 11, 3, 93: [[bracchium]] in [[latus]] jactant, id. 4, 2, 39: si contendemus per continuationem, bracchio celeri, mobili vultu utemur, Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—<br /> <b>3</b> Of the [[motion]] of the [[arms]] in [[dancing]]: bracchia in numerum jactare, Lucr. 4, 769; imitated by Ov.: numerosa bracchia jactat (ducit, Jahn), Ov. Am. 2,4,29, and id. R. Am. 754; Lucr. 4, 790; imitated in Ov. A. A. 1, 595; Prop. 2 (3), 22, 6; imitated in Stat. S. 3, 5, 66; cf. of the labors of the Cyclopes: [[illi]] [[inter]] [[sese]] magnā vi bracchia tollunt In numerum, Verg. G. 4, 174.—<br /> <b>4</b> Trop.: levi or molli bracchio agere aliquid, to do [[any]] [[thing]] [[superficially]], [[negligently]], [[remissly]] (prob. [[peculiar]] to the lang. of [[conversation]]), Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6; so, molli bracchio aliquem objurgare, id. ib. 2, 1, 6.—Prov.: praebuerim sceleri bracchia nostra tuo, [[lend]] a [[hand]], Ov. H. 7, 126.—<br /> <b>B</b> The limbs of animals [[analogous]] to the [[arms]] of men; of the claws of crawfish, etc., Ov. M. 4, 625; 10, 127; 15, 369; Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 97: [[hence]] also of the [[sign]] Cancer, Ov. M. 2, 83; also of Scorpio, Verg. G. 1, 34; Ov. M. 2, 82; 2, 195.—Of the claws of the [[nautilus]], Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88, and [[other]] [[sea]]-[[fish]], id. 11, 48, 108, § 258.—Of the [[lion]]: in feminum et bracchiorum ossibus, Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214.—<br /> <b>2</b> Comicé for [[armus]] or [[femur]] (as [[inversely]] [[armus]] = [[bracchium]]): Ar. Edepol vel elephanto in Indiā Quo pacto [[pugno]] perfregisti [[bracchium]]. Py. Quid? [[bracchium]]? Ar. Illud dicere volui [[femur]], the [[shoulder]], the [[shoulder]]-[[blade]] of the [[elephant]], Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 26 sq. Brix ad loc.—<br /> <b>C</b> Objects resembling [[arms]].<br /> <b>1</b> The branches of trees (cf. Ov. M. 1, 550: in ramos bracchia crescunt; v. also [[manus]] and [[coma]]): vitem sub bracchia ungito, [[Cato]], R. R. 95 fin.; of the [[vine]], Verg. G. 2, 368; Col. 4, 24, 2; 7, 8 sq.; 5, 5, 9 sq.; Pall. Febr. 9, 6; id. Mai, 2, 1: quatiens bracchia Quercus, Cat. 64, 105: differt [[quod]] in bracchia ramorum spargitur, Plin. 13, 9, 18, § 62: ([[aesculus]]) Tum fortes [[late]] ramos et bracchia tendens, etc., Verg. G. 2, 296; Ov. M. 14, 630; Val. Fl. 8, 114.—<br /> <b>2</b> An [[arm]] of the [[sea]]: nec bracchia longo Margine terrarum porrexerat [[Amphitrite]], Ov. M. 1, 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16.—<br /> <b>3</b> The collateral branches or ridges of a [[mountain]]: [[Taurus]] ubi bracchia emittit, Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98.—<br /> <b>4</b> Poet., = [[antenna]], the [[sail]]-yards: jubet intendi bracchia velis, Verg. A. 5, 829; cf. Stat. S. 5, 1, 244.—<br /> <b>5</b> In milit. lang., a ([[natural]] or [[artificial]]) [[outwork]] or [[line]] for connecting [[two]] points in fortifications, etc.; Gr. σκέλη: aliā parte [[consul]] [[muro]] Ardeae [[bracchium]] injunxerat, a [[line]] of [[communication]], Liv. 4, 9, 14; 38, 5, 8; 22, 52, 1 Drak.; 44, 35, 13; Hirt. B. Alex. 30; id. B. Afr. 38; 49; 51; 56; id. B. Hisp. 5; 6; 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16; Luc. 3, 387; 4, 266.—So of the [[side]]-works, [[moles]], dikes, in the [[fortification]] of a harbor, Liv. 31, 26, 8; cf. Just. 5, 8, 5 Gron.; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 15; Suet. Claud. 20.—<br /> <b>6</b> The [[arm]] of a catapult or [[ballista]], Vitr. 1, 1; 10, 15 sq. | ||
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bracchĭum: (less correctly brāchĭ-um;
I gen. bracchi, Lucr. 6, 434), ii, n. perh. kindr. with Gr. βραχίων; but cf. Sanscr. bāhu; like frango, Sanscr. bhang, Bopp, Gloss. p. 239 a, the arm; particularly,
I Lit., the forearm, from the hand to the elbow (while lacertus is the upper arm, from the elbow to the shoulder), Lucr. 4, 830; 6, 397: bracchia et lacerti, Ov. M. 1, 501; 1, 550 sq.: subjecta lacertis bracchia, id. ib. 14, 305; Curt. 8, 9, 21; 9, 1, 29: (feminae) nudae bracchia et lacertos, Tac. G. 17 (opp. umerus); Cels. 8, 1, § 79 sqq.; 8, 10, § 55 sqq.—Far oftener,
II Transf.
A In gen., the arm, the whole arm, from the shoulder to the fingers, Pac. ap. Non. p. 87, 26, and Varr. L. L. 5, 7, p. 4 Müll.; id. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4: quod eum bracchium fregisse diceret, Cic. de Or. 2, 62, 253; cf. Cels. 1, 10, 3: multi ut diu jactato bracchio praeoptarent scutum manu emittere et nudo corpore pugnare, Caes. B. G. 1, 25: bracchium (sc. dextrum) cohibere togā, Cic. Cael. 5, 11 (cf. Sen. Contr. 5, 6: bracchium extra togam exserere): eodem ictu bracchia ferro exsolvunt (i.e. venas incidunt, as, soon after, crurum et poplitum venas abrumpit), Tac. A. 15, 63; 1, 41.—Of embraces: collo dare bracchia circum, to throw the arms round the neck, Verg. A. 6, 700; cf.: circumdare collo, Ov. M. 9, 459: implicare collo, id. ib. 1, 762: inicere collo, id. ib. 3, 389: cervici dare, Hor. C. 3, 9, 2: lentis adhaerens bracchiis, id. Epod. 15, 6: Hephaestionis bracchium hastā ictum est, Curt. 4, 16, 31: ut in jaculando bracchia reducimus, Quint. 10, 3, 6: sinisteriore bracchio, Suet. Dom. 17: bracchia ad superas extulit auras, Verg. A. 5, 427: alternaque jactat Bracchia protendens (Dares), id. ib. 5, 377: juventus horrida bracchiis, Hor. C. 3, 4, 50.—Of a rower: si bracchia forte remisit, Verg. G. 1, 202: matri bracchia tendere, Ov. M. 3, 723: patrio tendens bracchia caelo, id. ib. 9, 210: tendens ad caelum bracchia, id. ib. 9, 293: precando Bracchia sustulerat, id. ib. 6, 262.—Prov.: dirigere bracchia contra Torrentem, to swim against the current, Juv. 4, 89.—
2 Of the movement of the arms in speaking: bracchii projectione in contentionibus, contractione in remissis, Cic. Or. 18, 59; so Quint. 11, 3, 84: extento bracchio paululum de gestu addidit, Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242: demissa bracchia, Quint. 2, 13, 9: a latere modice remota, id. 11, 3, 159: ut bracchio exserto introspiciatur latus, id. 11, 3, 118: aliqui transversum bracchium proferunt et cubito pronunciant, id. 11, 3, 93: bracchium in latus jactant, id. 4, 2, 39: si contendemus per continuationem, bracchio celeri, mobili vultu utemur, Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—
3 Of the motion of the arms in dancing: bracchia in numerum jactare, Lucr. 4, 769; imitated by Ov.: numerosa bracchia jactat (ducit, Jahn), Ov. Am. 2,4,29, and id. R. Am. 754; Lucr. 4, 790; imitated in Ov. A. A. 1, 595; Prop. 2 (3), 22, 6; imitated in Stat. S. 3, 5, 66; cf. of the labors of the Cyclopes: illi inter sese magnā vi bracchia tollunt In numerum, Verg. G. 4, 174.—
4 Trop.: levi or molli bracchio agere aliquid, to do any thing superficially, negligently, remissly (prob. peculiar to the lang. of conversation), Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6; so, molli bracchio aliquem objurgare, id. ib. 2, 1, 6.—Prov.: praebuerim sceleri bracchia nostra tuo, lend a hand, Ov. H. 7, 126.—
B The limbs of animals analogous to the arms of men; of the claws of crawfish, etc., Ov. M. 4, 625; 10, 127; 15, 369; Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 97: hence also of the sign Cancer, Ov. M. 2, 83; also of Scorpio, Verg. G. 1, 34; Ov. M. 2, 82; 2, 195.—Of the claws of the nautilus, Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88, and other sea-fish, id. 11, 48, 108, § 258.—Of the lion: in feminum et bracchiorum ossibus, Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214.—
2 Comicé for armus or femur (as inversely armus = bracchium): Ar. Edepol vel elephanto in Indiā Quo pacto pugno perfregisti bracchium. Py. Quid? bracchium? Ar. Illud dicere volui femur, the shoulder, the shoulder-blade of the elephant, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 26 sq. Brix ad loc.—
C Objects resembling arms.
1 The branches of trees (cf. Ov. M. 1, 550: in ramos bracchia crescunt; v. also manus and coma): vitem sub bracchia ungito, Cato, R. R. 95 fin.; of the vine, Verg. G. 2, 368; Col. 4, 24, 2; 7, 8 sq.; 5, 5, 9 sq.; Pall. Febr. 9, 6; id. Mai, 2, 1: quatiens bracchia Quercus, Cat. 64, 105: differt quod in bracchia ramorum spargitur, Plin. 13, 9, 18, § 62: (aesculus) Tum fortes late ramos et bracchia tendens, etc., Verg. G. 2, 296; Ov. M. 14, 630; Val. Fl. 8, 114.—
2 An arm of the sea: nec bracchia longo Margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite, Ov. M. 1, 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16.—
3 The collateral branches or ridges of a mountain: Taurus ubi bracchia emittit, Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98.—
4 Poet., = antenna, the sail-yards: jubet intendi bracchia velis, Verg. A. 5, 829; cf. Stat. S. 5, 1, 244.—
5 In milit. lang., a (natural or artificial) outwork or line for connecting two points in fortifications, etc.; Gr. σκέλη: aliā parte consul muro Ardeae bracchium injunxerat, a line of communication, Liv. 4, 9, 14; 38, 5, 8; 22, 52, 1 Drak.; 44, 35, 13; Hirt. B. Alex. 30; id. B. Afr. 38; 49; 51; 56; id. B. Hisp. 5; 6; 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16; Luc. 3, 387; 4, 266.—So of the side-works, moles, dikes, in the fortification of a harbor, Liv. 31, 26, 8; cf. Just. 5, 8, 5 Gron.; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 15; Suet. Claud. 20.—
6 The arm of a catapult or ballista, Vitr. 1, 1; 10, 15 sq.
