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|lshtext=<b>flăgellum</b>: i, n.<br /> [[dim]]. [[flagrum]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[whip]], [[scourge]]; [[more]] [[severe]] [[than]] [[scutica]].<br /><b>I</b> (Cf. also: [[flagrum]], [[verber]], [[lorum]].) Lit.: nec scuticā dignum horribili sectere [[flagello]], Hor. S. 1, 3, 119; cf.: [[ille]] flagellis Ad mortem [[caesus]], id. ib. 1, 2, 41; Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 12; Dig. 48, 19, 10; Hor. Epod. 4, 11; Cat. 25, 11; Ov. Ib. 185; Juv. 6, 479.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[riding]]-[[whip]], Verg. A. 5, 579; Sil. 4, 441; a [[whip]] for [[driving]] [[cattle]], Col. 2, 2, 26.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The [[thong]] of a [[javelin]], Verg. A. 7, 731.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[young]] [[branch]] or [[shoot]], a [[vine]]-[[shoot]], Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 3; Verg. G. 2, 299; Cat. 62, 52; Col. 3, 6, 3 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The [[arm]] of a [[polypus]], Ov. M. 4, 367.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>5</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In [[late]] Lat., a threshing-flail, Hier. Isa. 28.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>6</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[tuft]] of [[hair]], Sid. Ep. 1, 2.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., the [[lash]] or stings of [[conscience]] ([[poet]].), Lucr. 3, 1019; Juv. 13, 195; cf. of the [[goad]] of [[love]], Hor. C. 3, 26, 11.

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