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|lshtext=<b>pĭla</b>: ae (<br /><b>I</b> gen. [[sing]]. pilaï, Lucr. 5, 713; 720; 726), f. etym. dub.; perh. [[akin]] to Gr. [[πάλλω]]>, [[brandish]]; Lat. pellere, [[drive]]; v. Corss. 1, 525 sqq., a [[ball]], playing-[[ball]] (syn. [[follis]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: pilā [[expulsim]] ludere, Varr. ap. Non. 104, 29: di nos [[quasi]] pilas homines habent, Plaut. Capt. prol. 22; id. Most. 1, 2, 73: pilae [[studio]] teneri, Cic. de Or. 3, 23, 88; Hor. S. 1, 5, 49: cum lapsa e manibus fugit [[pila]], Verg. Cir. 149, Prop. 3, 12 (4, 13), 5: [[pila]] cadit aut mittentis [[vitio]], aut accipientis . . . ([[pila]]) jactata et excepta, Sen. Ben. 2, 17, 3: pilam [[scite]] et [[diligenter]] excipere . . . [[apte]] et [[expedite]] remittere, id. ib. 2, 32, 1: pilam repetere, quae terram contigit, Petr. 27: reddere pilam, Mart. 14, 46, 2. There were [[four]] sorts of pilæ: [[trigonalis]], paganica, [[follis]], [[harpastum]].—Prov.: mea [[pila]] est, I [[have]] the [[ball]], I [[have]] caught it, I've won, Plaut. Truc. 4, 1, 7: [[claudus]] pilam, Cic. Pis. 28, 69; v. [[claudus]]: Fortunae [[pila]], the [[foot]]-[[ball]] of [[fortune]], Aur. Vict. Epit. 18.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> The [[game]] of [[ball]]: [[quantum]] alii tribuunt alveolo, [[quantum]] pilae, Cic. Arch. 6, 13.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of [[any]] [[thing]] [[round]], a [[ball]] or [[globe]] of [[any]] [[material]]: pilae lanuginis, Plin. 12, 10, 21, § 38: scarabaei e fimo ingentes pilas aversi pedibus volutant, id. 11, 28, 34, § 98.—Of the [[globe]] of the [[earth]] ([[ante]]-[[class]].): in terrae [[pila]], Varr. ap. Non. 333, 25.—The ancients made [[use]] of a [[glass]] or [[crystal]] [[ball]] [[filled]] [[with]] [[water]] as a [[burning]]-[[glass]]: cum addită aquā vitreae pilae [[sole]] [[adverso]] in [[tantum]] excandescunt, ut vestes exurant, Plin. 36, 26, 67, § 199; 37, 2, 10, § 28.—The Roman ladies carried a [[crystal]] or [[amber]] [[ball]] to [[keep]] [[their]] hands [[cool]], Prop. 2, 18, 60 (3, 18, 12); Mart. 11, 8.—Of the [[ball]] or [[lump]] of [[earth]] [[which]] adheres to the roots of a [[bush]] [[when]] [[torn]] up, Col. 5, 9. —Of the ballots or bails used by judges in voting, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 19; Ascon. Argum. Milon. fin.—Of stuffed balls or [[human]] figures: pilae et [[effigies]] viriles et muliebres ex lanā Compitalibus suspendebantur in compitis. [[quod]] hunc diem festum esse deorum inferorum quos vocant [[Lares]], putarent: quibus tot pilae, [[quot]] capita servorum; tot [[effigies]], [[quot]] essent [[liberi]]. ponebantur, ut vivis parcerent et essent his pilis et simulacris contenti, Paul. ex Fest. p. 239 Müll. Bulls were baited by throwing [[similar]] stuffed figures at [[their]] heads, Mart. Spect. 19, 2: [[quantus]] erat [[cornu]], cui [[pila]] [[taurus]] erat! id. ib. 9; [[hence]], sed cui [[primus]] erat [[lusor]] dum floruit [[aetas]], Nunc [[postquam]] desiit ludere prima [[pila]] est, id. ib. 10, 86. As these [[effigies]] were [[usually]] [[torn]] by the throwing, the [[term]] is also applied to a [[torn]] [[toga]], Mart. 2, 43, 6.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> In partic.: pilae Nursicae, i. e. rapae rotundae, Mart. 13, 20, 2.<br /><b>pīlă</b>: ae, f. for pigla, from [[root]] pag-, [[pig]]-, of [[pango]], pe-[[pig]]-i, q. v.,<br /><b>I</b> a [[pillar]] (syn. [[columna]]): [[pila]], quae parietem sustentat, ab opponendo dicta est, Paul. ex Fest. p. 204 Müll.: locavit pilas pontis in Tiberim, Liv. 40, 51: [[salax]] [[taberna]] a pileatis [[nona]] fratribus [[pila]], of the [[temple]] of [[Castor]] and [[Pollux]], Cat. 37, 1: nulla [[taberna]] meos habeat [[neque]] [[pila]] libellos, i. e. [[they]] are not to be [[publicly]] sold (as the booksellers had [[their]] stalls [[around]] the pillars of [[public]] buildings), Hor. S. 1, 4, 71; Vitr. 6, 11: pilas operibus subdere, Sen. Q. N. 6, 302; Plin. 11, 10, 10, § 23; Mart. 7, 61, 5.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., a [[pier]] or [[mole]] of [[stone]]: saxea, Verg. A. 9, 711; Vitr. 5, 12; Suet. Claud. 20; Sil. 4, 297.<br /><b>pīla</b>: ae, f. perh. for pisula, from [[root]] pis-; v. [[pinso]], [[piso]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[mortar]] (syn. [[mortarium]]): [[pila]], ubi [[triticum]] pinsant, [[Cato]], R. R. 14; Ov. Ib. 573: zeae [[granum]] tunditur in pilā ligneā, Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 112: si contuderis stultum in pilā, Vulg. Prov. 27, 22: sal sordidum in pilā pisatum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 158 Müll.