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
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.