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|lshtext=<b>scŭtŭla</b>: (in a Greek orthog. scy-tăla or scytălē; v. II. and III.), ae, f., = [[σκυτάλη]] (a [[staff]], [[stick]]).<br /><b>I</b> A [[wooden]] [[roller]] or cylinder: [[quattuor]] biremes, subjectis scutulis, impulsas vectibus in interiorem partem transduxit, Caes. B. C. 3, 40, 4.—<br /><b>II</b> A [[secret]] [[writing]], [[secret]] [[letter]] [[among]] the Lacedaemonians (it [[being]] written on a [[slip]] of [[papyrus]] wrapped [[round]] a [[σκυτάλη]];> [[pure]] Lat. [[clava]]): [[scytala]], Nep. Paus. 3, 4: scytale, Aus. Ep. 23, 23; cf. Gell. 17, 9, 15 (written as Greek, Cic. Att. 10, 10, 3, habes σκυτάλην Λακωνικήν).—<br /><b>III</b> A cylindrical [[snake]] (of [[equal]] [[thickness]] [[throughout]]), Plin. 82, 5, 19, § 53; Luc. 9, 717; Sol. 27, § 30; cf. Col. 6, 17. 1.<br /><b>scŭtŭla</b>: ae, f.<br /> [[dim]]. [[scutra]]; cf. [[scutella]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit., a [[little]] [[dish]] or [[platter]] of a [[nearly]] [[square]] form (cf. [[lanx]]), [[Cato]], R. R. 68, 1; Mart. 11, 31, 19; 8, 71, 7.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., of figures [[thus]] shaped, a diamond-, rhomb-, or lozenge-shaped [[figure]]: (pavimenta) si sectilia sunt, nulli [[gradus]] in scutulis aut trigonis aut quadratis seu favis exstent, Vitr. 7, 1; so of a [[tesselated]] [[floor]], Pall. 1, 9, 5; of [[checkered]] stuffs, Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 196 (cf. [[scutulatus]]); id. 17, 16, 26, § 118.—Of the [[shape]] of a [[country]]: formam totius Britanniae eloquentissimi auctores oblongae scutulae vel bipenni assimulavere, Tac. Agr. 10.—Of a [[patch]] on the [[eye]], for a [[disguise]]: [[scutula]] ob oculos lanea, Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 42.

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