talus

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

tālus ī, m

TEC-, an ankle, ankle-bone, pasternbone, knuckle-bone : taloque tenus vestigia tinguit, O.: prodibant tubere tali, O.— The heel : ad talos demissa purpura: talos a vertice pulcher ad imos, H.: Securus, cadat an recto stet fabula talo, i. e. succeeds or fails , H.— A die (often made of bone; it had rounded ends, and four sides marked successively 1, 3, 6, 4): ad talos se aut ad tesseras conferunt: talos nucesque Ferre sinu laxo, H.

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