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Ἡ δ' ἐμὴ ψυχὴ πάλαι τέθνηκεν, ὥστε τοῖς θανοῦσιν ὠφελεῖν → My soul died long ago so that I could give some help to the dead

Sophocles, Antigone, 559-60

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

antenna: (also antemna), ae, f. akin to ἀνατείνω>, acc. to Doed.,
I a sail-yard: funes, qui antemnas ad malos destinabant, Caes. B. G. 3, 14: malis antemnisque de nave in navem trajectis, Liv. 30, 10 Weissenb.: antemnae gemunt, * Hor. C. 1, 14, 6: Effugit hibernas demissa antemna procellas, Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 9: cornua velatarum antemnarum, the ends of the sail-yards covered with the sails, Verg. A. 3, 549.—As pars pro toto = velum: pinus ... antemnis apta ferendis, Ov. M. 13, 783.