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Lewis Short
pĕdĭca (noun F) : pes
* A shackle, fetter, or chain for the feet, a springe, gin, snare (cf.: compes, vinculum tendicula).
* Lit., Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 10; Liv. 21, 36: tunc gruibus pedicas et retia ponere cervis,Verg. G. 1, 307; Ov. M. 15, 473; Vulg. Jer. 5, 26: quid, si pedes pedicis coartentur?App. Flor. p. 357, 29.
* Transf., of the spider's web, Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 81.
* Trop., a shackle, fetter (post-class.): amoris,App. M. 2, p. 116, 40: nuptiales,id. ib. 6, p. 182, 41.
* A shackle, fetter, or chain for the feet, a springe, gin, snare (cf.: compes, vinculum tendicula).
* Lit., Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 10; Liv. 21, 36: tunc gruibus pedicas et retia ponere cervis,Verg. G. 1, 307; Ov. M. 15, 473; Vulg. Jer. 5, 26: quid, si pedes pedicis coartentur?App. Flor. p. 357, 29.
* Transf., of the spider's web, Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 81.
* Trop., a shackle, fetter (post-class.): amoris,App. M. 2, p. 116, 40: nuptiales,id. ib. 6, p. 182, 41.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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