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Lewis Short
bractĕa | brattĕa (noun F) : (also ), , perh. kindr. with βράχω, to rattle
* A thin plate of metal, gold-leaf (thicker plates of metal are called laminae; cf. Isid. Orig. 16, 18, 2: bractea dicitur tenuissima lamina): aranea bratteaque auri, * Lucr. 4, 729: leni crepitabat brattea vento,Verg. A. 6, 209: inspice, quam tenuis bractea ligna tegat,Ov. A. A. 3, 232; Mart. 8, 33, 6; Plin. 33, 3, 19, § 61; cf. argenteae,id. 37, 7, 31, § 105.
* Poet.: viva,the golden fleece of Spanish sheep,Mart. 9, 62, 4.
* Trop., show, glitter: eloquentiae, Sol. praef. 2.
* A thin plate of metal, gold-leaf (thicker plates of metal are called laminae; cf. Isid. Orig. 16, 18, 2: bractea dicitur tenuissima lamina): aranea bratteaque auri, * Lucr. 4, 729: leni crepitabat brattea vento,Verg. A. 6, 209: inspice, quam tenuis bractea ligna tegat,Ov. A. A. 3, 232; Mart. 8, 33, 6; Plin. 33, 3, 19, § 61; cf. argenteae,id. 37, 7, 31, § 105.
* Poet.: viva,the golden fleece of Spanish sheep,Mart. 9, 62, 4.
* Trop., show, glitter: eloquentiae, Sol. praef. 2.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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