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mĕrŭla
mĕrŭla, ae, f. (post-class. collat. form mĕrŭlus, i, m., Auct. Carm. Philom. 13), a blackbird, ousel, merle. Lit.: evolare merulas, Cic. Fin. 5, 15, 42: ut merula, quia sola volat, quasi mera volans nominaretur, Quint. 1, 6, 38; cf. Plin. 10, 29, 42, § 80; 10, 30, 45, § 87; 10, 53, 74, § 147.— Transf. A fish, the sea-carp: merulae virentes, Ov. Hal. 114; cf. Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 149.— A kind of hydraulic machine that produced a sound like the note of the blackbird, Vitr. 10, 12.

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mĕrŭla
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mĕrŭla
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merula
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mĕrŭla, ae, f. (post-class. collat. form mĕrŭlus, i, m., Auct. Carm. Philom. 13), a blackbird, ousel, merle. Lit.: evolare merulas, Cic. Fin. 5, 15, 42: ut merula, quia sola volat, quasi mera volans nominaretur, Quint. 1, 6, 38; cf. Plin. 10, 29, 42, § 80; 10, 30, 45, § 87; 10, 53, 74, § 147.— Transf. A fish, the sea-carp: merulae virentes, Ov. Hal. 114; cf. Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 149.— A kind of hydraulic machine that produced a sound like the note of the blackbird, Vitr. 10, 12.
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28858
URN:
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionary-entries.atlas_v1:lat.ls.perseus-eng2-n28836
Key:
merula1

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