ēverrĭcŭlum — Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary

ēverrĭcŭlum, i, n. everro, a sweepnet, drag-net. Prop., for taking a large number of fishes, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 7; App. Mag. p. 294; cf. Non. p. 34; and: everriculum, quod Graece σαγήνη dicitur, Dig. 47, 10, 13, § 7.— Trop.: everriculum malitiarum omnium, the drag-net, i. e. the sweeperaway of all basenesses, Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74: quod umquam hujuscemodi everriculum ulla in provincia fuit? i. e. a plunderer, sarcastically applied to Verres, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 24, 53; cf. everro, II.

ShortDef

No short def.

Debugging

Headword:

ēverrĭcŭlum

Headword (normalized):

ēverrĭcŭlum

Headword (normalized/stripped):

everriculum

Intro Text:

IDX:

16484

URN:

urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionary-entries.atlas_v1:lat.ls.perseus-eng2-n16467

Key:

everriculum

Senses and Citations (From Data)

Citations (From Models)

No citations.

Data

{
  "content": "ēverrĭcŭlum, i, n. everro, a sweepnet, drag-net.  Prop., for taking a large number of fishes, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 7; App. Mag. p. 294; cf. Non. p. 34; and: everriculum, quod Graece σαγήνη dicitur, Dig. 47, 10, 13, § 7.— Trop.: everriculum malitiarum omnium, the drag-net, i. e. the sweeperaway of all basenesses, Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74: quod umquam hujuscemodi everriculum ulla in provincia fuit? i. e. a plunderer, sarcastically applied to Verres, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 24, 53; cf. everro, II.\n",
  "key": "everriculum",
  "type": "main"
}