Arcus, buius arcus, m. g. The vault of a rouse.Efficere arcum cõpag bus lapidum.Ouid.To make a vault.Ducere arcum.Ouid. Dicare arcum. Tac. Arcus.Virg.A bowe.Acer arcus.Virg.A strong or quicke casting bowe.Aduncus arcus.Ouid.A bowe bent.Corncus arcus.Ouid.Flexibilis.Ouid.Laxus. Silius. Vnbent.Letifer.Virg.Minax. Horar. Sinuosus. Ouid.Sinuatus.Ouid.Bended.Sonans.Virg.Ringing.Trux.Stat. Vastus Sen A lugge. Adducere arcum Virg.To bend or drawe a bowe.Ceruos arcu combere Horat.Contentus arcus.Ouid.A bow bent.Corripete manu arcum.Virg.To take in his hand.Curuare at cum Stat.To bende or drawe.Arcu tela dirigere. Horat. To shoate: to lettell.Dirigere aicum in aliquem.To cll his bow toward.Emitiere arcu sagittam. Plin. To stoore: to loose.Expedire alimenta arcu. Tac. To kill bealkes with his bowe for his foode.Expellere fagittam arcu.Ouid.To shoote.Fallit arcus dexteram. Sen. When he misscth that he shot at.Flectere arcqm coactis cornibus. Sen. To beude.Intendere arcum. Sen. To bende.Intentus arcus.Cic.Bended.Lentare arcum.Stat.To bende or bough, as one doth in saying a bowe.Librat telum arcus. Sen. Shooteth foorth.Lunare arcum.Ouid.To drawe.Minatur arcus & ferit, Horat.Due hittcth in shooting.Obuertere arcum in aliquem.Ouid.To turne or leuell.Petere aliquem arcu.Stat.To shoote at.Porrigere arcum.Ouid.To acknowledge himself onercome.Protendere arcum ab alto. Sil. Remissus arcus. Horat. Vnbended.Retendere arcum. Stat To vnbende.Retentus arcus.Ouid.Vnbended.Sinuare patulos arcus.Ouid.To draw.Stringere aliquem arcu.Stat.To shoote at or hitte.Sumere manu arcum.Ouid. Suspendere humeris. Virg.Temperare neruis arcum.Ouid.To string the bowe.Tendere arcum. Horat. To bende or draw.Tendere aliquò arcum. Pers. To lay or lcuell toward.Tensus arcus.Stat.Bent. Arcus dicitur in nubibus.Cic.The raine bow.Bibitingens arcus.Virg. Cælestis arcus. Plin. Coloratus quodammodo atcus ex nubibus.Cic.Colores varios trahit arcus.Virg.Imbrifer arcus. Tibullus. Ingens arcus sub nubibus.Virg.Pluuius arcus. Horat. Arcus variata luce rubens. Claud. Arculus.A little bow or arcke.
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arcus, ūs, m. (the orthography, arquus (cf. arquatus), is freq. in MSS., like quum for cum, quur for cur, etc.; cf. Freund ad Cic. Mil. p. 31 sq. Thus Charis. p. 92 P. upon Cic. N. D. 3, 20, 51, reads arcuis; Prisc. p. 712 P. arci; and Non. p. 425, 5, upon Lucr. 6, 526, arqui; but the distinction which the latter gram. points out (arcus suspensus fornix appellatur; arquus non nisi qui in caelo apparet, quam Irim poëtae dixerunt) does not seem to be well founded.—Abl. plur. never found; acc. to the gram., Don. p. 1751, Diom. p. 285, Prisc. p. 779, Rhem. Palaem. p. 1371 P. al., it was arcubus; so Vulg. 2 Esdr. 4, 13; cf. Rudd. I. p. 104, n. 48.—Gen. sing. arqui, Lucr. 6, 526 Lachm., and Cic. N. D. 3, 20, 51 B. and K.—Dat. arcu, Sil. 4, 18.—Nom. plur. ARCVVS, Corp. Inscr. V. 85; Inscr. Henz. 5313: arci, Varr. ap. Non. p. 77, 12.—Acc. ARCOS, Corp. Inscr. II. 3420.—Fem., Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 712 P.; cf. id. 658 P.; and Serv. ad Verg. 6, 610, says that Catull. and others used it as fem.; v. Neue, Formenl. I. p. 679) [cf. Sanscr. arālas = bent, the bent arm, aratnis = Gr. w)le/nh; Lat. ulna; Germ. Elbogen; Engl. elbow. Curt.], prop., something bent; hence, I.A bow (syn. cornu). A. For shooting: intendit crinitus Apollo Arcum auratum, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 54 Müll.): arcus intentus in aliquem, Cic. Sest. 7: haec cernens arcum intendebat Apollo Desuper, Verg. A. 8, 704; 9, 665; so Vulg. Psa. 10, 3; 36, 14: arcum tendere, ib. 3 Reg. 22, 34; ib. 4 Reg. 9, 24: adductus, Verg. A. 5, 507: remissus, Hor. C. 3, 27, 67: arcum dirigere in aliquem, Pers. 3, 60: quom arcum et pharetram mi et sagittas sumpsero, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 98; so, arcum suscitare, Vulg. Hab. 3, 9 et saep. —B.The rainbow (fully: pluvius arcus, v. infra, II.), Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 712 P. (Ann. v. 393 Vahl.): Tum color in nigris existit nubibus arqui, Lucr. 6, 526 Lachm.: arcus ipse ex nubibus efficitur quodam modo coloratis, Cic. N. D. 3, 20, 51: ceu nubibus arcus Mille jacit varios adverso sole colores, Verg. A. 5, 88 Rib.; so Ov. M. 6, 63; 11, 632; 14, 838: pluvius describitur arcus, Hor. A. P. 18; Liv. 30, 2; 41, 21; Plin. 18, 35, 80, 353; Sen. Q. N. 1, 5 and 6: arcum meum ponam in nubibus, Vulg. Gen. 9, 13 sqq. (in Vulg. Apoc. 4, 3; 10, 1, iris, q. v.) al.—C.A bow or arch in building, a vault, arch, triumphal arch, etc.: efficiens humilem lapidum compagibus arcum, Ov. M. 3, 30; 3, 160; Juv. 3, 11; Suet. Ner. 25: marmoreus arcus, id. Claud. 1; so id. ib. 11; id. Dom. 13; cf. Plin. Pan. 59, 2 Schwarz.—II.Transf.A.Poet. or in post-Aug. prose, any thing arched or curved like a bow; of the breaking of waves: niger arcus aquarum, Ov. M. 11, 568.—Of the windings of a serpent: immensos saltu sinuatur in arcus, Ov. M. 3, 42.—Of a curve in flight: dea se paribus per cælum sustulit alis Ingentemque fugā secuit sub nubibus arcum, Verg. A. 5, 658.—Of the curving or bendings of a bay: sinus curvos falcatus in arcus, Ov. M. 11, 229 (cf.: inque sinus scindit sese unda reductos, Verg. A. 1, 161).— Of a harbor: Portus ab Euroo fluctu curvatus in arcum, Verg. A. 3, 533.—Of boughs of trees, Verg. G. 2, 26 et saep.—Of the back of a chair, Tac. A. 15, 57.—B.The mathematical arc, Sen. Q. N. 1, 10; Col. 5, 2, 9.—Hence, of the five parallel circles of the globe which bound the zones (or perhaps rather, the zones themselves): via quinque per arcus, Ov. M. 2, 129.
