claviger

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

clāvĭger, gĕra, gĕrum, adj.,

club-bearing; as an epithet of Hercules [clava gero], the club-bearer (v. clava, 1.), Ov. M. 15, 22; 15, 284; id. F. 1, 544; 4, 68.—Also of the robber Periphetes: clavigera proles, Ov. M. 7, 437: clavigerum numen, Sil. 3, 14.

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