fractura
From LSJ
νὺξ μὲν ἐμὸν κατέχει ζωῆς φάος ὑπνοδοτείρη → sleep-giving night hath quenched my light of life | sleep-giving night covers my light of life | night, the giver of sleep, holds the light of my life
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
fractūra: ae, f. frango,
I a breach, fracture, cleft: ad luxum aut ad fracturam alliga, Cato, R. R. 160: quo propior fractura capiti (ossis) vel superiori vel inferiori est, eo pejor est, Cels. 8, 10.—In plur., Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 137; 31, 11, 47, § 126 (but id. 33, 4, 21, § 71, the correct read. is fractariis; v. fractaria).
