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                    "description": "spīna (noun F) : root spī, whence also spicna, spīca, spinus\n* A thorn.\n* Lit.: cum lubrica serpens Exuit in spinis vestem,Lucr. 4, 61; cf. Prop. 4 (5), 5, 1; Verg. E. 5, 39; Col. 3, 11, 5; Plin. 21, 15, 54, § 91 al.: consertum tegumen spinis,Verg. A. 3, 594; cf. Ov. M. 14, 166; id. P. 2, 2, 36; Tac. G. 17. —Of particular kinds of thorny plants or shrubs: solstitialis,Col. 2, 18, 1: alba,whitethorn, hawthorn,id. 7, 7, 2; 7, 9, 6; 3, 11, 5; Plin. 21, 11, 39, § 68; 24, 12, 66, § 108: Aegyptia, the Egyptian blackthorn or sloe, id. 13, 11, 20, § 66; 24, 12, 65, § 107: Arabica,Arabian acacia,id. 24, 12, 65, § 107.\n* Transf., of things of a like shape.\n* Trop., in plur.\n* A fish-bone: humus spinis cooperta piscium,Quint. 8, 3, 66; Ov. M. 8, 244.\n* The backbone, spine: caput spina excipit: ea constat ex vertebris quattuor et viginti, etc.,Cels. 8, 1; 8, 9, 2; 8, 14; Plin. 11, 37, 68, § 179; Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 5; Col. 6, 29, 2; Verg. G. 3, 87; Ov. M. 8, 806: dorsi spina, Aug. Civ. Dei, 19, 4, n. 2: spina quae est in dorso,Gell. 3, 10, 7.— Hence, poet., the back, Ov. M. 6, 380; 3, 66; 3, 672.\n* Spina, a low wall dividing the circus lengthwise, around which was the race-course; the barrier, Cassiod. Var. 3, 51; Schol. Juv. 6, 588.\n* A toothpick: argentea,Petr. 32 fin.\n* Thorns, i. e. difficulties, subtleties, perplexities in speaking and debating (class.): disserendi spinae,Cic. Fin. 4, 28, 79; cf.: partiendi et definiendi,subtleties, intricacies,id. Tusc. 4, 5, 9; cf.: hominum more non spinas vellentium, ut Stoici,id. Fin. 4, 3, 6.\n* Cares: certemus, spinas animone ego fortius an tu Evellas agro,Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 4.\n* Errors: quid te exemta juvat spinis de pluribus una,Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 212."
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