flăgellum, i, n. dim. [flagrum], a whip, scourge; more severe than scutica.
I (Cf. also: flagrum, verber, lorum.) Lit.: nec scuticā dignum horribili sectere flagello, Hor. S. 1, 3, 119; cf.: ille flagellis Ad mortem caesus, id. ib. 1, 2, 41; Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 12; Dig. 48, 19, 10; Hor. Epod. 4, 11; Cat. 25, 11; Ov. Ib. 185; Juv. 6, 479.—
B Transf.
1 A riding-whip , Verg. A. 5, 579; Sil. 4, 441; a whip for driving cattle , Col. 2, 2, 26.—
2 The thong of a javelin , Verg. A. 7, 731.—
3 A young branch or shoot , a vine-shoot , Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 3; Verg. G. 2, 299; Cat. 62, 52; Col. 3, 6, 3 al.—
4 The arm of a polypus , Ov. M. 4, 367.—
5 In late Lat., a threshing-flail , Hier. Isa. 28.—
6 A tuft of hair, Sid. Ep. 1, 2.—
II Trop., the lash or stings of conscience (poet.), Lucr. 3, 1019; Juv. 13, 195; cf. of the goad of love, Hor. C. 3, 26, 11.