pollex

pollex icis, m

the thumb, C., V., H., O.: clavi digiti pollicis crassitudine, Cs.: utroque laudare pollice ludum (approbation being expressed by closing the thumb upon the fingers), H.: verso pollice volgus Quem iubet occidunt (disapproval being expressed by extending the thumb), Iu.

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pollex, ĭcis, m. [polleo; cf.: pollex nomen ab eo, quod pollet, accepit, Atei. Cap'to ap. Macr. S. 7...

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Pollex, ĭcis, m., the name of a slave of Cicero , Cic. Fam. 14, 6, 1; id. Att. 8, 5, 1; 13, 47, ...

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Pollex
·noun The first, or preaxial, digit of the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; ...

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