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                    "description": "mănĭpŭlus | mănīplus (noun M) : (sync. , in poets; plur.:\n* Inter manipula,Spart. Hadrian. 10), , m.manus-pleo, plenus, a handful, a bundle.\n* Lit.: de his (herbis) manipulos fieri,Varr. R. R. 1, 49: manipulos obligare,Col. 11, 2, 40: vincire,id. 2, 19, 2: alligari,Plin. 18, 28, 67, § 262: filicumque maniplis Sternere humum,Verg. G. 3, 297: nexos deferre maniplos,Col. 10, 315: maniplos solvere,the bundles of hay,Juv. 8, 153.\n* Transf.\n* = ἁλτῆρες, pieces of metal held in the hand during gymnastic exercises, to increase the momentum of a leap or stroke, Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 2, 38.\n* Because the ancient Romans adopted a pole, with a handful of hay or straw twisted about it, as the standard of a company of soldiers; in milit. lang., a certain number of soldiers belonging to the same standard, a company, maniple; generally applied to infantry, and only by way of exception to cavalry: miles pulcre centuriatus est expuncto in manipulo,Plaut. Curc. 4, 4, 29: pertica suspensos portabat longa maniplos: Unde maniplaris nomina miles habet,Ov. F. 3, 117: adeo ut iidem ordines, manipulique constarent,Caes. B. C. 2, 28: manipulos laxare,id. B. G. 2, 25: continere ad signa manipulos,id. ib. 6, 33: in legione sunt manipuli triginta,Gell. 16, 4, 6.—Of cavalry: infrenati manipli,Sil. 4, 316: App. M. 9, p. 221, 5.—Comically:  manipulus farum, a troop, band, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 6."
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