glaeba | glēba (noun F) : (less correctly ), , cf. globus.
* Prop., a small piece or lump of earth, a clod (cf. gramen, herba, faenum, caespes): ingens,Lucr. 6, 553: glaebis terrarum saepe friatis,id. 1, 887: fecundae,id. 1, 212; so Verg. G. 1, 94; Hor. C. 3, 6, 39: si glaebis aut saxis aut fustibus aliquem de fundo praecipitem egeris ... non esse arma cespites neque glaebas, etc.,Cic. Caecin. 21, 60: omnes, qui ullam agri glaebam possiderent,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 11, § 28; so, nec ulli glaeba ulla agri assignaretur,Liv. 4, 11; cf. also: non adimi cuiquam glaebam,Cic. Agr. 3, 1, 3: nam priusquam in os injecta glaeba est, locus ille, ubi crematum est corpus, nihil habet religionis,id. Leg. 2, 22, 57; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, 4, 9, § 23; and Fest. s. v. praecidanea, p. 223: ex fundo glaeba sumebatur,Gai. Inst. 4, 17: ornare glaebam virentem,i. e. an altar built of turf,Juv. 12, 85; v. also glaebula.
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* Land, soil: terra antiqua potens armis atque ubere glaebae,Verg. A. 1, 531: glebae felices,App. M. p. 102, 7.
* Of other things, a piece, lump, mass: sevi ac picis glaebae,Caes. B. G. 7, 25; so, turis,Lucr. 3, 328; Stat. Th. 6, 60: marmoris,Plin. 36, 6, 8, § 50: salis,id. 31, 7, 39, ζ 73: sulphuris,id. 35, 15, 50, § 175: lactis,Nemes. Ecl. 3 fin.
* (Late Lat.), = pensio or canon praedio incumbens, a tax imposed upon the land of senators, Cod. Th. 6, 2, 10; ib. 12, 1, 138; Symm. Ep. 4, 61.

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