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|lshtext=<b>pălumbes</b>: is, or pălumbis, is, m. and f. (collat. form pălumbus, i, m., [[Cato]], R. R. 90; Col. 8, 8; Mart. 13, 67, 1: pălumba, ae, f., Cels. 6, 6, 39) [cf. Sanscr. kadamba, [[diver]]; Gr. [[κόλυμβος]]>, [[columba]],<br /><b>I</b> a woodpigeon, [[ring]]-[[dove]]: macrosque [[palumbes]], Lucil. ap. Non. 219, 6; Pompon. ib. 9; Varr. R. R. 3, 9; Cic. poët. ap. Serv. Verg. E. 1, 58: raucae, tua [[cura]], [[palumbes]], Verg. E. 1, 58: aëriae [[palumbes]], id. ib. 3, 69: fronde novā puerum [[palumbes]] Texere, Hor. C. 3, 4, 12; cf. id. S. 2, 8, 91.—Prov.: palumbem alicui ad aream adducere, to [[furnish]] one a [[good]] [[opportunity]] to do a [[thing]], to [[bring]] the [[fish]] to one's [[net]], Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 63: duae unum expetitis palumbem, the [[same]] [[cock]]-[[pigeon]], i. e. the [[same]] [[lover]], id. Bacch. 1, 1, 17.—Palumbus [[was]] also the [[name]] of a [[gladiator]]; [[hence]], in a [[double]] [[sense]]: Palumbum postulantibus daturum se promisit, si [[captus]] esset, Suet. Claud. 21.