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                    "description": "ăcūmĕn (noun N) : acuo\n* A point to prick or sting with; diff. fr. cacumen, which designates merely the summit or extremity of a thing, Doed. Syn. 2, 108.\n* Lit.: tum clupei resonunt et ferri stridit acumen, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 838 P. (Ann. v. 369 ed. Vahl.): coni,Lucr. 4, 431: nasi,id. 6, 1193 (i.e. the pointed contraction of the nose before death; cf. Bentl. ad Hor. S. 1, 3, 29): stili,Cic. de Or. 1, 33: ferrum Diana volanti abstulerat jaculo: lignum sine acumine venit,Ov. M. 8, 353; 3, 84.—Hence, also, the sting of an animal: scorpii,Cic. Arat. 685:—auspicium ex acuminibus, a military omen of victory, when the spears stuck in the ground suddenly begin to burn or shine at the points, Cic. Div. 2, 36, 77, and id. N. D. 2, 3; cf. Liv. 22, 1; 43, 13.—In Plin., of the taste: sharpness or pungency, 14, 20, 25.\n* Fig., of the mind, like acies.\n* Acuteness, shrewdness, keenness, acumen: sermonis leporem, ingeniorum acumen, dicendi copiam,Cic. Fl. 4; so Nep. Alc. 11; Plin. 2, 27, 27, § 97.—Also without a gen.: ubi est acumen tuum?Cic. Tusc. 1, 6; so Lucr. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 2: Empedocles an Stertinium deliret acumen, Hor.  Ep. 1, 12, 20.—Poet. also in plur.: serus Graecis admovit acumina chartis,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 161.\n* Cunning, subtlety: argutiae et acumen Hyperidis,Cic. Or. 31; so id. de Or. 2, 63.—Also in plur.: dialectici ipsi se compungunt suis acuminibus,id. de Or. 2, 38: meretricis acumina,Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 55. —Hence"
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