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|lshtext=<b>căpŭlus</b>: i, m. (acc. to Gramm. also că-pŭlum, i, n., Paul. ex Fest. p. 61 Müll.; Non. p. 4, 21 sq.; Isid. Orig. 20, 16, 5) [[capio]]; [[prop]]. the holder].<br /><b>I</b> A [[sarcophagus]], [[bier]], [[sepulchre]], [[tomb]]: capulum... vocatur et id, quo mortuo efferatur, Paul. l. l.: capulum dicitur [[quicquid]] [[aliquam]] rem [[intra]] se capit: nam sarcophagum, id est sepulchrum, capulum dici veteres volunt, [[quod]] corpora capiat... [[Novius]]... Prius in [[capulo]] [[quam]] in curuli sellā. [[Lucilius]] Satyrarum [[libro]] [[secundo]], quem [[illi]] [[quom]] vidissent... in [[capulo]] hunc non esse, aliumque cubare. Var. Cosmotorque, Propter cunam capulum positum [[nutrix]] tradit pollictori, Non. p. 4, 21 sqq.; cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 222: ([[feretrum]]) Latine [[capulus]] dicitur, id. ib. 11, 64: dum funera portant, Dum [[capulo]] [[nondum]] [[manus]] excidit, Stat. Th. 3, 362: [[monumentum]] quoddam conspicamur. Ibi capulos carie et vetustate semitectos, [[quis]] inhabitabant pulverei et jam cinerosi mortui, App. M. 4, p. 150, 27: capuli lecti funerei vel rogi in modum arae constructi, Placid. Gloss. tom. III. p. 451.—Hence: [[ire]] ad capulum, to go to the [[grave]], Lucr. 2, 1174; and [[sarcastically]]: capuli [[decus]], one [[who]] deserves a [[bier]] = [[capularis]], Plaut. As. 5, 2, 42.—<br /><b>II</b> That by [[which]] [[any]] [[thing]] is seized or held, the [[handle]]: aratri, Ov. P. 1, 8, 57: sceptri, id. M. 7, 506.—Esp., the [[hilt]] of a [[sword]], Cic. Fat. 3, 5; Verg. A. 2, 553; 10, 536; Ov. M. 7, 422; 12, 133; 12, 491; Petr. 82, 2; Tac. A. 2, 21; App. M. 1, p. 108 al.; cf.: capulum [[manubrium]] gladii vocatur, Paul. l. l. —Hence,<br /><b>III</b> = [[membrum]] [[virile]], Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 29; [[with]] the [[addition]] of coleorum, Auct. Priap. 24, 7.—<br /> Capulum, a [[halter]] for [[catching]] or [[fastening]] [[cattle]], a [[lasso]], Isid. Orig. 20, 16, 5; cf. [[capulo]].

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