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                    "description": "ānŭlus | ann- (noun M) : (not ), ,  2. anus, like circulus from circum, not a dim.\n* A ring, esp. for the finger, a finger-ring; and for sealing, a seal-ring, signet-ring.\n* Lit.: ille suum anulum opposuit,Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 76: de digito anulum Detraho,Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 37; id. Ad. 3, 2, 49; id. Hec. 5, 3, 31 et saep.; Lucr. 1, 312; 6, 1008; 6, 1014: (Gyges) anulum detraxit,Cic. Off. 3, 9, 38: gemmatus,Liv. 1, 11; Suet. Ner. 46; id. Caes. 33; id. Tib. 73 et saep.: anulo tabulas obsignare,Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 67: sigilla anulo imprimere,Cic. Ac. 2, 26, 85; id. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4; Plin. 33, 1, 5 sqq. et saep.—The right to wear a gold ring was possessed, in the time of the Republic, only by the knights (equites); hence, equestris, * Hor. S. 2, 7, 53: anulum invenit = eques factus est,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 76.—So also jus anulorum = dignitas equestris, Suet. Caes. 33: donatus anulo aureo,id. ib. 39; so id. Galb. 10; 14; id. Vit. 12 al.; cf. Mayor ad Juv. 7, 89; Smith. Dict. Antiq.\n* Of other articles in the form of rings.\n* A ring for curtains: velares anuli,Plin. 13, 9, 18, § 62.\n* A link of a chain, Plin. 34, 15, 43, § 150; cf. Mart. 2, 29.—Irons for the feet, fetters: anulus cruribus aptus,Mart. 14, 169.\n* A curled lock of hair, a ringlet: comarum anulus,Mart. 2, 66.\n* A round ornament upon the capitals of Doric columns: anuli columnarum,Vitr. 4, 3.\n* Anuli virgei, rings made of willow rods, Plin. 15, 29, 37, § 124."
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