glădĭŏlus | glădĭŏla, i | Glădĭŏlus (noun M) : dim.gladius.
* A small sword: lingulam veteres dixere gladiolum oblongum, in speciem linguae factum,Gell. 10, 25, 3: gladiolo solito cinctus,App. M. 2, p. 122; 3, p. 131.—In plur. heterocl. : nec gladiola (quisquam ferat), atqui Messala dixit,Quint. 1, 6, 42 (cf. gladius init.).
* Title of a comedy by Livius Andronicus, Fest. s. v. pedibus, p. 210 b. Müll.
* The sword-lily, Plin. 21, 11, 38, § 65; 21, 17, 67, § 107 sq.; al. Pall. 1, 37.

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