incūs (noun F) : incudo
* An anvil.
* Lit. (class.): sine follibus et incudibus,Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54: si faber incudem fregerit,Dig. 14, 2, 2: impositos duris crepitare incudibus enses,Verg. G. 2, 540: positis incudibus,i. e. having established smithies,id. A. 7, 629: novā Incude diffingere ferrum,Hor. C. 1, 35, 39.—Prov.: eandem incudem tundere,to labor always at the same thing,Cic. de Or. 2, 39, 162; so Amm. 18, 4, 2; 28, 4, 26.
* Trop.: haec mihi incus est: procudam ego hinc hodie multos dolos,Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 20: juvenes, et in ipsa studiorum incude positi,i. e. still occupied with their education,Tac. Or. 20; so, philosophicā incude formatus,Sid. Ep. 4, 1: incudi reddere versus, to return to the anvil, i. e. to revise, retouch, Hor. A. P. 441.

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