pharetra

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

phărē̆tra, ae, f., = φαρέτρα.

I Lit., a quiver for holding arrows (poet. and late Lat.): succinctam pharetrā, Verg. A. 1, 323: nec venenatis gravida sagittis, Fusce, pharetra, Hor. C. 1, 22, 3: pharetram solvere, to undo , open , Ov. M. 5, 379: venatricis puellae (Dianae), Juv. 13, 80: in pharetrā suā abscondit me, Vulg. Isa. 49, 2; Verg. G. 2, 125; Prop. 2, 9, 10; Ov. P. 4, 13, 38; id. Am. 3, 9, 7; Val. Fl. 3, 607; Stat. Th. 4, 259 al.—

II Transf., a kind of sundial in the form of a quiver , Vitr. 9, 8, 1.

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