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                    "description": "vēna (noun F) : perh. root veh-, to carry, etc.; prop. a pipe, channel; Gr. ὀχετός\n* A blood-vessel, vein.\n* Lit.\n* In gen.: venae et arteriae a corde tractae et profectae in corpus omne ducuntur,Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 139: venam incidere,id. Pis. 34, 83; Cels. 2, 10: bracchiorum venas interscindere,Tac. A. 15, 35: abrumpere,id. ib. 15, 59: abscindere,id. ib. 15, 69: exsolvere,id. ib. 16, 17; 16, 19: pertundere,Juv. 6, 46: secare, Suet. Vit. Luc.: ferire,Verg. G. 3, 460: solvere,Col. 6, 14, 3.\n* Trop.\n* Transf., of things that resemble veins.\n* A water-course, Hirt. B. G. 8, 43; Auct. B. Alex. 8, 1: fecundae vena aquae,Ov. Tr. 3, 7, 16; Mart. 10, 30, 10.\n* A vein of metals, Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 151; Juv. 9, 31.\n* The urinary passage, Cels. 4, 1.\n* A vein or streak of wood, Plin. 16, 38, 73, § 184; 13, 15, 30, § 97. —Of stone, Plin. 37, 6, 24, § 91; Stat. S. 1, 3, 36.\n* A row of trees in a garden, Plin. 17, 11, 15, § 76.\n* = membrum virile, Mart. 4, 66, 12; 6, 49, 2; 11, 16, 5; Pers. 6, 72.\n* The strength: vino fulcire venas cadentes,Sen. Ep. 95, 22; id. Ben. 3, 9, 22; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 153.\n* The interior, the innate or natural quality or nature of a thing: periculum residebit et erit inclusum penitus in venis et visceribus rei publicae,Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31: (orator) teneat oportet venas cujusque generis, aetatis, ordinis,the innermost feelings, the spring, pulse,id. de Or. 1, 52, 223: si ulla vena paternae disciplinae in nobis viveret, Sev. ap. Spart. Pesc. 3.\n* For a person's natural bent, genius, disposition, vein (the fig. taken from veins of metal): ego nec studium sine divite venā, Nec rude quid possit video ingenium,Hor. A. P. 409: tenuis et angusta ingenii,Quint. 6, 2, 3: benigna ingenii,Hor. C. 2, 18, 10: publica (vatis),Juv. 7, 53."
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