Flagello, flagellas, flagellâre. Martial. To whip: to scourge: to ierke: to threshe.Flagellare perticis frumentum. Plin. To threshe corne.Flagellare annonam. Plin. To buie corne and vittaile before it come to the market, as forestallers doe, to make it deare.Flagellare opes dicitur arca Martiale.To kepe fast locked.
Flagellum, flagelli, Diminutiuum Flagrum. Virgil. A small braunche or twigge of a tree.Flagella vitis. Varro. The small braunches of a vine. Flagellum.Virg.A whip or scourge.Horribile flagellum. Horât. Inusta turpiter cibi flagella. Catul. Beaten, that the printof the strokes sticke in thy skinne.Sanguineum flagellum.Virg.Accinctus flagello.Virg.Admonere flagello. Col. Virg.Cæsus flagellis ad mortem. Hor. To driue forward, or quicken a horse with a whip.Insonuit flagello.Virg.He made a ierke with the whip.Ipsum horrisoni quatit ita flagelli.Val. Flac.Sublimi flagello tangere aliquem. Hor. Torrere flagellis aliquem. Lucre.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
flăgello, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [flagellum], to whip, scourge, lash (poet. and in postAug. prose). I.Lit.: quaestorem suum in conjuratione nominatum flagellavit, Suet. Calig. 26: aliquem manu sua, id. ib. 55; id. Claud. 38: canes extremis polypi crinibus, Plin. 9, 30, 48, 92: terga caudā (leo), id. 8, 16, 19, 49; cf.: arborem caudā (serpens), Ov. M. 3, 94: messem perticis,
, Mart. 4, 42, 7: sertaque mixta comis sparsa cervice flagellat, i. e.
shakes
, Stat. Th. 10, 169; cf. id. ib. 3, 36: flagellatus aër, Plin. 2, 45, 45, 116: si puteal multa cautus vibice flagellas, i. e.
practise outrageous usury
, Pers. 4, 49: cujus laxas arca flagellat opes, presses down, i. e. encloses, Mart. 2, 30, 4; 5, 13, 6; cf.: prout aliquis praevalens manceps annonam flagellet, keeps back commodities, i.e. maintains them at too high a price, Plin. 33, 13, 57, 164.
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.