spadix
From LSJ
Καλὸν τὸ καιροῦ παντὸς εἰδέναι μέτρον → Occasionis nosse res pulchra est modum → Schön ist's, das Maß zu kennen jeder rechten Zeit
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
spādix: īcis, comm., = σπἀδιξ.
I Lit., a palm-branch broken off, together with its fruit; spadica Dorici vocant avulsum e paimā termitem cum fructu, Gell. 2, 26, 10; 3, 9, 9.—In the collat. form spādīcum: termites et spadica cernit assidua, Amm. 24, 3, 12.—
II Transf. (as in Greek).
A Date-brown, nut-brown, chestnut-brown: rutilus et spadix phoenicei συνώνυμος>, Geli. 2, 26, 9 sq.: honesti (equi) Spadices glaucique, Verg. G. 3, 82.—
B A kind of stringed instrument, condemned as effeminate by Quint. 1, 10, 31.
