vara

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ἐβόα καὶ βαρβαρικῶς καὶ Ἑλληνικῶς → shouted out both in Persian and Greek, shouted out in the barbarian tongue and in Greek

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

vāra: ae, f.
I A wooden horse or trestle for spreading nets upon; hence, prov.: sequitur varam vibia, one evil follows the other, Aus. Idyll. 12 praef. monos.—
II A forked pole for spreading nets upon, Luc. 4, 439; to support a bough, Col. 5, 9, 2.