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|lshtext=<b>tēlum</b>: i, n. for texlum; [[root]] τεκ-,> of [[τίκτω]],> to [[beget]]; τυκ-, τυχ-,> of [[τυγχάνω]],> to [[hit]], [[chance]] [[upon]]; v. [[texo]]; cf. [[τόξον]],> a [[bow]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[weapon]] used for [[fighting]] at a [[distance]]; a [[missile]] [[weapon]], [[missile]], as a [[dart]], [[spear]], [[javelin]], etc. ([[while]] [[arma]] signifies [[arms]] for [[defence]] or [[close]] [[fight]]; v. [[arma]]; cf.: jaculum, [[tormentum]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[tela]] [[proprie]] dici videntur ea, quae missilia sunt: ex Graeco [[videlicet]] translato eorum nomine, [[quoniam]] [[illi]] [[τηλόθεν]] [[missa]] dicunt, quae nos [[eminus]]; [[sicut]] [[arma]] ea, quae ab umeris dependentia retinentur manibus, Fest. p. 364 Müll.; cf. id. p. 3; and Serv. Verg. A. 8, 249; 9, 509: [[telum]] [[vulgo]] [[quidem]] id appellatur, [[quod]] ab arcu mittitur, sed [[nunc]] omne significatur, [[quod]] mittitur manu. Itaque sequitur, ut et [[lapis]] et [[lignum]] et [[ferrum]] hoc nomine contineatur, [[dictum]] ab eo, [[quod]] in longinquum mittitur, Graecā voce figuratum ἀπὸ τοῦ [[τηλοῦ]],> Dig. 50, 16, 233: [[arma]] rigent, horrescunt [[tela]], Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Trag. v. 177 Vahl.); so, opp. [[arma]], Sall. C. 42, 2; 51, 38; id. J. 43, 3; Ov. M. 9, 201: [[tela]] manu jacere, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 3 (Ann. v. 438 Vahl.); cf.: si [[quis]] jaciat [[volatile]] [[telum]], Lucr. 1, 970: [[tela]] depellere...[[telum]] jacere, Cic. Quint. 2, 8: conicere, Caes. B. G. 1, 26; 1, 46; 1, 47; 2, 27; Cic. Quint. 16, 52 al.; cf.: [[nubes]] levium telorum conjecta obruit aciem Gallorum, Liv. 38, 26, 7; and [[with]] this cf.: it toto turbida [[caelo]] Tempestas telorum ac [[ferreus]] ingruit [[imber]], Verg. A. 12, 284: [[telum]] ex [[loco]] superiore mittere, Caes. B. G. 3, 4: Romani omni genere missilium telorum ac saxis [[maxime]] vulnerabantur, Liv. 44, 35, 21; cf. Sisenn. ap. Non. 449, 3: priusquam ad conjectum teli veniretur, Liv. 2, 31, 6: [[tela]] vitare, Caes. B. G. 2, 25: [[telis]] repulsi, id. ib. 1, 8; Cic. Rep. 1, 3, 5: non [[primus]] [[Teucer]] [[tela]] Cydonio Direxit arcu, Hor. C. 4, 9, 17: in medios [[telum]] torsisti [[primus]] Achivos, Verg. A. 5, 497: [[tela]] spargere, Luc. 3, 326; Quint. 4, 5, 14: aërias [[telum]] contendit in auras, Verg. A. 5, 520: [[telum]] [[volatile]] sensit, Ov. A. A. 1, 169: [[volucre]], Val. Fl. 2, 524: hic confixum [[ferrea]] texit Telorum [[seges]], Verg. A. 3, 46: [[nubes]] telorum, Liv. 38, 26, 7: [[nimbus]], Luc. 4, 776. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In gen., an [[offensive]] [[weapon]] of [[any]] [[kind]], as a [[sword]], [[dagger]], [[poniard]], [[axe]], etc. ([[class]].): [[Ajax]] gladio incubuit; [[Ulixes]] intervenit ... e corpore cruentum [[telum]] educit, Auct. Her. 1, 11, 18: ex quibus ([[telis]]) [[ille]] maximum sicarum numerum et gladiorum extulit, Cic. Cat. 3, 3, 8: elatam securim in [[caput]] dejecit: relictoque in vulnere telo [[ambo]] se [[foras]] eiciunt, Liv. 1, 40, 7: non [[tuba]] terruerit, non strictis agmina [[telis]], Ov. M. 3, 535: [[tela]] aliis hastae, aliis secures erant, Curt. 9, 1, 15: clavae [[tela]] erant, id. 9, 4, 3: [[stare]] in [[comitio]] cum telo, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15; so esp. freq.: esse cum telo, to be [[armed]], id. Att. 2, 24, 3; id. Vatin. 10, 24; id. Verr. 2, 5, 3, § 7; Sall. C. 27, 2 al.; cf.: esse cum telo hominis occidendi causā (lex) vetat, Cic. Mil. 4, 11: qui caedem telo [[quocumque]] commiserint, Quint. 10, 1, 12: ut pereat positum rubigine [[telum]], my sheathed [[sword]], Hor. S. 2, 1, 43 et saep.: [[pars]] caret altera telo Frontis, i. e. a [[horn]], Ov. M. 8, 883; so of the [[caestus]], Verg. A. 5, 438; Stat. Th. 6, 772.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Poet., [[like]] the Gr. [[βέλος]] (v. Lidd. and Scott, sub voce),<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> A [[sunbeam]]: non radii solis [[neque]] lucida [[tela]] diei, Lucr. 1, 147; 2, 60; 3, 92; 6, 40.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Lightning: [[arbitrium]] est in sua [[tela]] Jovi, Ov. F. 3, 316: excutere irato [[tela]] trisulca Jovi, id. Am. 2, 5, 52.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[stitch]] in the [[side]], Ser. Samm. 22, 402; cf. Isid. Orig. 4, 6.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; = [[membrum]] [[virile]], Mart. 11, 78, 6; Auct. Priap. 9; Just. 38, 1. —<br /><b>II</b> Trop., a [[weapon]], [[shaft]], [[dart]] ([[class]].), Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 113: [[usque]] quāque sapere [[oportet]]: id erit [[telum]] acerrimum, Poët. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 16, 1; cf.: nec [[mediocre]] [[telum]] ad res gerendas existimare [[oportet]] benevolen, tiam civium, Cic. Lael. 17, 61: nec gelidis torpet [[telis]] perfixa pavoris, Lucr. 3, 305: Veneris [[telis]] accipere [[ictus]], id. 4, 1052: [[necessitas]], quae [[ultimum]] ac maximum [[telum]] est, Liv. 4, 28, 5; 5, 29, 9: quā lege tribunitiis rogationibus [[telum]] acerrimum datum est, id. 3, 55, 3: de corpore rei publicae tuorum scelerum [[tela]] revellere, Cic. Pis. 11, 25: [[tela]] fortunae, id. Fam. 5, 16, 2: lucubrationis [[telum]], Suet. Calig. 53: vis tribunicia, [[telum]] a majoribus libertati paratum, Sall. Or. Macri Licinii ad Pleb. 6; Liv. 6, 35, 8: sentire et linguae [[tela]] subire tuae, Ov. P. 4, 6, 36.

|georg=tēlum, ī, n. ([[tendo]]), die Fernwaffe, Wurfwaffe, das [[Geschoß]], der [[Spieß]] usw. (Ggstz. [[arma]], s. [[armano]]. II), [[dann]] übh. jede Angriffswaffe, [[Schwert]], [[Dolch]], [[Axt]] usw., I) eig. u. übtr.: 1) eig.: a) übh.: [[arma]] [[atque]] [[tela]] militaria, Sall.: [[arma]], [[tela]], equos parare, Sall.: [[tela]] intendere, excipere, Cic. – b) v. Geschosse, [[nubes]] telorum, Liv.: [[missus]] (das [[Werfen]]) telorum, Auct. b. Hisp.: [[tela]] mittere, Caes., od. conicere, Cic.: [[tela]] in hostem ingerere, Liv.: propiores levioribus eoque [[magis]] crebris [[telis]] petere, Liv.: [[tela]] ab omni parte accĭdebant, Liv.: [[telum]] contendit, den [[Pfeil]], Verg.: v. der [[Schleuder]], Liv. 38, 29, 5. – c) v. [[Schwert]], [[Dolch]] usw., [[esse]] cum [[telo]], Cic.: stare cum [[telo]], Cic.: gladio per [[pectus]] transfigit; [[telo]] extracto etc., Liv.: corpore [[telum]] cruentum educit, Cornif. rhet.: [[telum]], [[quod]] latebat, protulit, Nep.: caedem [[telo]] committere, Quint.: omnium parricidarum [[tela]] commovere, Cic.: aspicis in timida fortia [[tela]] manu, die tapfere [[Waffe]] (poet. v. einem [[Schwert]]) Ov. her. 14, 76. – v. Beile, relicto in vulnere [[telo]], Liv.: v. Cästus, Verg. Aen. 5, 438: v. Horne eines Stieres, Ov. [[met]]. 8, 883. – 2) übtr.: a) [[wie]] das griech. [[βέλος]], v. Sonnenstrahl, [[tela]] diei, Lucr. – v. [[Blitz]], [[arbitrium]] est in sua [[tela]] Iovi, Ov. – b) das [[Seitenstechen]], Ser. Samm. 402. – c) das männliche [[Glied]], Mart. u.a.: im [[Doppelsinn]] [[bei]] Iustin. 38, 1, 9. – II) bildl., [[Waffe]], [[Geschoß]], [[Pfeil]], [[tela]] fortunae, Cic.: [[tela]] scelerum, Cic.: id erit [[telum]] acerrimum, [[Waffe]], [[Schutzmittel]], Enn. fr.: u. so quā [[lege]] tribuniciis rogationibus [[telum]] acerrimum [[datum]] est, Liv.: [[necessitas]], [[quae]] [[ultimum]] ac maximum [[telum]] est, Liv.: so [[auch]] [[isto]] [[telo]] tutabimur plebem, [[Waffe]], [[Schutzmittel]], Liv.: [[non]] mediocre [[telum]] ad [[res]] gerendas existimare benevolentiam civium, Cic.: stricturum se lucubrationis suae [[telum]], Suet.

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