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Lewis Short
līnĕāmentum | līnĭā- (noun N) : (), , linea
* A line or stroke made with a pen, with chalk, etc., a mark, line.
* Lit.: in geometria lineamenta formae, etc.,lines,Cic. de Or. 1, 41, 187: lineamentum, longitudinem latitudine carentem,id. Ac. 2, 36, 116.
* Transf.
* Trop., a feature, lineament: animi lineamenta sunt pulchriora quam corporis,Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 75: numerus quasi quandam palaestram et extrema lineamenta orationi attulit,id. Or. 56, 186: Catonis lineamentis nihil nisi eorum pigmentorum, quae inventa nondum erant, florem et colorem defuisse,sketches, outlines,id. Brut. 87, 298.
* In plur., of the works of artists, designs, drawings, delineations: adumbratorum deorum lineamenta,Cic. N. D. 1, 27, 75: operum lineamenta,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 44, § 98.
* A line or stroke made with a pen, with chalk, etc., a mark, line.
* Lit.: in geometria lineamenta formae, etc.,lines,Cic. de Or. 1, 41, 187: lineamentum, longitudinem latitudine carentem,id. Ac. 2, 36, 116.
* Transf.
* Trop., a feature, lineament: animi lineamenta sunt pulchriora quam corporis,Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 75: numerus quasi quandam palaestram et extrema lineamenta orationi attulit,id. Or. 56, 186: Catonis lineamentis nihil nisi eorum pigmentorum, quae inventa nondum erant, florem et colorem defuisse,sketches, outlines,id. Brut. 87, 298.
* In plur., of the works of artists, designs, drawings, delineations: adumbratorum deorum lineamenta,Cic. N. D. 1, 27, 75: operum lineamenta,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 44, § 98.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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