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|lshtext=<b>māchĭna</b>: ae, f. = [[μηχανή]]>,<br /><b>I</b> a [[machine]], i. e. [[any]] [[artificial]] [[contrivance]] for performing [[work]], an [[engine]], [[fabric]], [[frame]], [[scaffolding]], [[staging]], easel, [[warlike]] [[engine]], [[military]] [[machine]], etc.<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: [[moles]] et [[machina]] mundi, Lucr. 5, 96: omnes illae columnae machinā appositā dejectae sunt, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 55, § 145: torquet [[nunc]] lapidem, [[nunc]] [[ingens]] [[machina]] [[tignum]], Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 73: trahuntque siccas machinae carinas, id. C. 1, 4, 2: frumentaria, Dig. 33, 7, 12.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Esp.,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[platform]] on [[which]] slaves were [[exposed]] for [[sale]]: amicam de machinis [[emere]], Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 2, 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[painter]]'s easel, Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 120.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[scaffold]] for [[building]]: de machinā cadere, Dig. 13, 6, 5; Plin. 19, 2, 8, § 30.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[military]] [[machine]], [[warlike]] [[engine]]: machinis omnium generum expugnare [[oppidum]], Sall. J. 21: aut haec in nostros fabricata est [[machina]] muros, Verg. A. 2, 46: murales, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 202: arietaria, Vitr. 10, 19.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., a [[device]], [[plan]], [[contrivance]]; esp. a [[trick]], [[artifice]], [[stratagem]]: at [[nunc]] disturba quas statuisti machinas, i. e. [[abandon]] [[your]] schemes, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 137: totam hanc legem ad illius [[opes]] evertendas [[tamquam]] machinam comparari, Cic. Agr. 2, 18, 50: omnes ad amplificandam orationem [[quasi]] machinae, * Quint. 11, 1, 44: dolum aut machinam commoliar, Caecil. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 73: quantas [[moveo]] machinas! Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 1: [[aliquam]] machinabor machinam, Unde [[aurum]] efficiam, id. Bacch. 2, 2, 54.