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|lshtext=<b>săgitta</b>: ae, f. [[root]] sagh-; v. [[sagio]].<br /><b>I</b> An [[arrow]], [[shaft]], [[bolt]] (freq. in [[prose]] and [[poetry]]; cf.: [[telum]], jaculum): cum arcum mihi et pharetram et sagittas sumpsero, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 99: confige sagittis fures thesaurarios, id. Aul. 2, 8, 25; Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89; id. N. D. 2, 50, 126 al.: missiles, Hor. C. 3, 6, 16: celeres, id. ib. 3, 20, 9 et saep.: sagittā Cupido cor [[meum]] transfixit, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 25; Lucr. 4, 1278; Tib. 2, 1, 81; Hor. C. 2, 8, 15; 1, 27, 12: sagittam conicere, Verg. A. 4, 69: nervo aptare sagittas, id. ib. 10, 131; Ov. M. 8, 380: savii sagittis per cussus est, Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 16 ([[but]] the [[better]] [[reading]] is: ejus saviis [[perculsus]]).—<br /><b>II</b> [[Meton]]., of things of a [[like]] form.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> The [[extreme]] [[thin]] [[part]] of a [[vine]]-[[branch]] or [[shoot]], Col. 3, 10, 22; 3, 17, 2; Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 156. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> The [[herb]] [[arrow]]-[[head]], Plin. 21, 17, 68, § 111.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> In [[late]] Lat., an [[instrument]] for letting [[blood]], a [[lancet]], Veg. 1, 22, 4; 1, 25, 5; 1, 43, 3, etc.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> Sagitta, a [[constellation]], the Arrow, Hyg. Astr. 2, 15; 3, 14; Cic. Arat. 382; Col. 11, 2, 21; Plin. 17, 18, 30, § 131; 18, 31, 74, § 309.