mallĕŏlus (noun M) : dim.malleus
* A small hammer or mallet.
* Lit., Cels. 8, 3, 29; Vulg. Jud. 4, 21: verba mea sunt quasi malleus conterens petram,id. Jer. 23, 29.
* Transf.
* A hammershaped slip, a mallet-shoot for planting: malleolus novellus est palmes, innatus prioris anni flagello, cognominatusque a similitudine rei, quod in ea parte, quae deciditur, ex vetere sarmento prominens utrinque, malleoli speciem praebet,Col. 3, 6, 3; cf. Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 156: malleolos pangere,to set in, plant,Col. 3, 3, 12; so, deponere,id. ib.: conserere,id. 3, 14, 2: demergere,id. 3, 18, 2: serere sulco, vel scrobe,Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 169.
* In milit. lang., a kind of fire-dart, Amm. 23, 4, 14; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 135 Müll.: malleoli, manipuli spartei pice contecti, qui incensi aut in muros aut in testudines jaciuntur,Non. 556, 11 sq.: partim malleolos, partim fasces sarmentorum incensos supra vallum, etc., Sisenn. ap. Non. 556, 13: malleolos et faces ad inflammandam urbem comparare,Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 32; cf. id. Mil. 24, 64: faces taedamque et malleolos stupae illitos pice parari jubet, Liv 42, 64, 3; cf. id. 38, 6, 2.
* The tongue of a shoe-buckle: malleoli ossei vel aerei,Isid. 19, 34, 10.

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