Nodus, nodi, m. g. priore producta. Cic.A knotte: a knourle: a ioynt: a difficultie: an intricate matter.Connectere nodum.Cic.Diuellere nodos manibus. Virgil. With his handes to vndoe a knot. Rupit nodos & vincula. Virg.Soluere nodum. Horat. To lewse or vndoe.Connexis nodis vincite aliquid.Ouid.Amictus nodo dependet ex humeris. Virgilius. His garment hangeth on his shoulder by a knot.Colligere sinum nodo.Virg.Serpens nexans se nodis.Virg.A snake wrapping him selfe.Vipereis nodis nexa brachia.Ouid.Aheni nodi.Virg.Chaines of braffe. Articulorum nodi. Plin. The knottes where the ioyntes be knit.Corporum nodi, articuli. Plin. The ioyntes.Crura sine nodis. Cæsar. Legges without ioyntesVitales animæ nodi. Lucret. The knitting or ioyning of life and body togither. Nodus A difficultie. Cœlius ad Ciceronem. Incideramus enim in difficilem nodum. We happened into au intricate matter.Expedire nodum.Cic.To dispatch a difficult matter.Validos veneris perrumpere nodos. Lucret. Nodum soluere. Erasmus. To dissolne an hard doubt or intricate matter.Nodus amicitiæ.Cic.A knot of friendship.Maximus in Repub. nodus est inopia rei pecuniariæ. Cicero. Lacke of money is in a common weale a great difficultie. Nodus in arbore. Col. A knot or knourie in a tree.Baculum sine nodo aduncum tenens.Liu.In nodum inflectere radices, Vide INFLECTO.Arundinei nodi. Claud. The knots or ioyntes in reedes. Nodum in scirpo quæris.Terent.To be scrupulous without a cause: to seeke a difficultle where none is: to be curious without cause.
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nōdus, i, m. [for gnodus; Sanscr. root gadh-, gandh-, grasp; cf. Gr. *xanda/nw, hold; gna/qos, jaw; Lat. pre-hend-o; Germ. Knoten; Engl. knot], a knot (cf. nexus). I.Lit.: nodus vinculumque, Cic. Univ. 4: necte tribus nodis ternos, Amarylli, colores, Verg. E. 8, 77: Cacum Corripit in nodum complexus,
clasping him as in a knot
, id. A. 8, 260: nodos manu diducere, Ov. M. 2, 560: nodus Herculis or Herculaneus,
a knot difficult to untie, of which Hercules was held to be the inventor
, Plin. 28, 6, 17, 63: unus tibi nodus, sed Herculaneus, restat, Sen. Ep. 87, 38: tamquam nodus Gordius difficillimus, Amm. 14, 11, 1: cingulum (novae nuptae) Herculaneo nodo vinctum vir solvit ominis gratia, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. cingulo, p. 63 Müll.—B.Transf.1.A girdle (poet.): nodoque sinus collecta fluentes, Verg. A. 1, 320; Mart. 6, 13, 5.— Hence, astronom.: nodus anni,
the circle of the equator
, Lucr. 5, 688.—2. A mode of dressing the hair, a knot, club: Rheni nodos,
the hair of the Germans gathered into a club
, Mart. 5, 37, 8; cf.: insigne gentis obliquare crinem nodoque substringere, Tac. G. 38.—3.Plur.: nodi,
a knotted fishing-net
, Manil. 5, 664.—4.A knot, knob, node on a joint of an animal's body: crura sine nodis, Caes. B. G. 6, 27: cervix articulorum nodis jungitur, Plin. 11, 37, 67, 177; 11, 37, 88, 217: dirae nodus hyaenae,
a backbone, dorsal vertebra
, Luc. 6, 672.— Hence, nodi articulorum,
a swelling, tumor on the joints
, Plin. 24, 5, 13, 21; 30, 12, 36, 110.—5.A knot, knob, fold, etc. (a). In wood or the branches of plants: baculum sine nodo aduncum tenens, Liv. 1, 18, 7; Sen. Ben. 7, 9: stipes gravidus nodis, Verg. A. 7, 507: telum solidum nodis, id. ib. 11, 553: gracilitas harundinis, distincta nodis, Plin. 16, 36, 64, 158; Col. Arb. 3.—Hence, the knotty club of Hercules, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1661.—(b). Of a writhing serpent: nixantem nodis seque in sua membra plicantem, Verg. A. 5, 279.—(g). Prov.: nodum in scirpo quaerere, to look for knots in a bulrush (which contains none), i. e. to find difficulties where there are none, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 330 Müll. (Sat. v. 46 Vahl.): in scirpo nodum quaeris, Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 22; Ter. And. 5, 4, 38.—6.A knot, hard part of a thing; so of metals, Plin. 34, 13, 37, 136; of precious stones, id. 37, 10, 55, 150.—7.A star in the constellation Pisces, Cic. Arat. 14; Caes. Germ. Arat. 243.— 8. In astron.: nodi,
the four points in the heavens where the seasons begin, the nodes
, Manil. 3, 618; cf. id. 2, 430.—II.Trop.A. In gen., a band, bond: his igitur singulis versibus quasi nodi apparent continuationis, Cic. Or. 66, 222: velut laxioribus nodis resolvemus, Quint. 9, 4, 127: amabilissimum nodum amicitiae tollere, Cic. Lael. 14, 51.—B. In partic. 1.A bond, obligation (poet.): exsolvere animum nodis religionum, Lucr. 4, 7: imponere nodos, i. e. jusjurandum, Ov. H. 20, 39 Ruhnk.—2.A knotty point, difficulty, impediment.—Absol.: dum hic nodus expediatur non putet senatus nos oportere decedere, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 3: incideramus in difficilem nodum, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 1.—With gen.: Abantem interimit, pugnae nodumque moramque, Verg. A. 10, 428: cum scopulus et nodus et mora publicae securitatis superesset Antonius, Flor. 4, 9, 1: qui juris nodos et legum aenigmata solvat (an allusion to the Gordian knot), Juv. 8, 50 (hence, Cicuta nodosus; v. nodosus).— Esp.: nodus linguae, the bond or tie of the tongue: nodum linguae rumpere, Gell. 5, 9, 2: nodos linguae solvere, Just. 13, 7, 6.