lōrīca (noun F) : id.
* A leather cuirass, a corselet of thongs (opp. thorax, a brazen breastplate).
* Lit.: pro lorica malacum capiam pallium,Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 37: lata insignisque lorica,Cic. Mur. 26, 52: ambulat cum lorica,id. Fl. 17, 41: graves loricis,Liv. 5, 38: trilix,Verg. A. 3, 467; 5, 259; Sil. 2, 401: bilix,Verg. A. 12, 376: truncis affixa tropaeis lorica,Juv. 10, 134: cum vix loricam multiplicem conixi umeris ferunt,Quint. 8, 4, 25.—Also of linen: lintea,Suet. Galb. 19.
* Transf., a defence of any kind.
* Trop.: libros Mutare loricis,i. e. to exchange studies for arms,Hor. C. 1, 29, 15.
* A fence, hedge, enclosure, App. M. 6, p. 186; Amm. 24, 5, 2.
* A plastering, plaster: lorica testacea,Vitr. 2, 8; 2, 9: stellionis cubile est in loricis ostiorum, fenestrarumque,Plin. 30, 10, 27, § 89.— *

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