săgitta (noun F) : root sagh-; v. sagio.
* An arrow, shaft, bolt (freq. in prose and poetry; cf.: telum, jaculum): cum arcum mihi et pharetram et sagittas sumpsero,Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 99: confige sagittis fures thesaurarios,id. Aul. 2, 8, 25; Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89; id. N. D. 2, 50, 126 al.: missiles,Hor. C. 3, 6, 16: celeres,id. ib. 3, 20, 9 et saep.: sagittā Cupido cor meum transfixit,Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 25; Lucr. 4, 1278; Tib. 2, 1, 81; Hor. C. 2, 8, 15; 1, 27, 12: sagittam conicere,Verg. A. 4, 69: nervo aptare sagittas,id. ib. 10, 131; Ov. M. 8, 380: savii sagittis per cussus est,Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 16 (but the better reading is: ejus saviis perculsus).
* Meton., of things of a like form.
* The extreme thin part of a vine-branch or shoot, Col. 3, 10, 22; 3, 17, 2; Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 156.
* The herb arrow-head, Plin. 21, 17, 68, § 111.
* In late Lat., an instrument for letting blood, a lancet, Veg. 1, 22, 4; 1, 25, 5; 1, 43, 3, etc.
* Sagitta, a constellation, the Arrow, Hyg. Astr. 2, 15; 3, 14; Cic. Arat. 382; Col. 11, 2, 21; Plin. 17, 18, 30, § 131; 18, 31, 74, § 309.