(v. a.P. a.) : lūno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.1. luna
* To bend like a half-moon or crescent, to crook like a sickle (rare in the verb. finit.; freq. in the P. a.): lunavit fortiter arcum,Ov. Am. 1, 1, 23: acies geminos in arcus,Prop. 4 (5), 6, 25.—Hence, lūnātus, a, um, P. a., half-moon-shaped, crescent-shaped, lunated, falcated: Amazonidum peltae,Verg. A. 1, 490: lunata/ fronte juvenci,Stat. Th. 6, 265: lunatis obliquatur cornibus,Plin. 6, 13, 15, § 38: conchae,id. 9, 33, 52, § 102: ferramentum,Col. 12, 54.— Hence, bearing a crescent; marked with something of a crescent shape: lunatum agmen,a line of battle with shields of crescent shape,Stat. Th. 5, 145: pellis, a senator's shoe (v. luna, I. 3.), Mart. 1, 49, 31.

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