Axis, huius axis, m. g. Virg.An extree: sometime heauen: also a hooke of a doore or gate.Axis. Claud. The pole north or south.Axis ætheris.Virg.Aethereus axis.Ouid. Astrifer. Lucan. Astriger.Stat. Aureus. Ouid.Calidus. Claud. Candens. Ouid.Hesperius.Ouid. Horrifer. Val. Flac.Ignifer. Claud. Niualis. Val. Flac.Noctiuagus. Claud. Scythicus. Sen. Serenatus. Sil. Serenus. Stat.Stelliger.Stat. Torrentissimus. Stat. Axis. luuenal. A cart or wagon, or chariot.Citus axis.Ouid.A swift chatiot.Euersus axis. Sil. The chariot ouerthrowen.Falcati axes. Valer. Flac. Feruens axis. Sil. Running swift.Feruidus axis.Virg. Idem. Phœbeus axis. Sen. The sunnes chariot.Pigri axes. Claud. That goe slowly.Rapidus.Stat.Going swift with violence. Sinuare axem. Sil. To turne about. Axes, pro Asseribus, Vide ASSIS vel ASSER. Gellius. Shingle.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
axis, is, m. [kindred with Gr. a)/cwn; Sanscr. akshas = axle, wheel; old Germ. Ahsa; mod. Germ. Achse; Engl. axle, Bopp, Gloss. p. 2, a; cf. Aufrecht, Zeitschr. für vergl. Sprachf. 8, p. 71]. I.Lit., an axletree, about which a round body, e.g. a wheel, turns: faginus axis, Verg. G. 3, 172: axes aerii, Vulg. 3 Reg. 7, 30; 7, 33: axis versatilis, ib. Eccli. 33, 5 al.—Meton. (pars pro toto), a chariot, car, wagon, Ov. M. 2, 59; id. H. 4, 160; Sen. Herc. Oet. 1442; Sil. 16, 360 al.—Plur., Ov. M. 2, 148; 4, 634.—II.Transf.A.The axle of a water-clock, Vitr. 9, 6.—B.The axis of the earth: mundum versari circum axem caeli, Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 52; so id. Ac. 2, 39, 123; id. Tim. 10; Lucr. 6, 1107.—Hence, meton. a.The pole, Luc. 7, 422: axis inocciduus, id. 8, 175: meridianus, Vitr. 6, 1.—b. Esp., the north pole, Lucr. 6, 720; Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 68; Verg. G. 2, 271; 3, 351; Ov. P. 4, 7, 2; Manil. 4, 589.—c.The whole heavens: maximus Atlas Axem umero torquet stellis ardentibus aptum, Verg. A. 4, 482; 6, 536; Ov. M. 1, 255; 2, 75; 2, 297; 6, 175; id. Tr. 1, 2, 46; Stat. Th. 5, 86; id. S. 3, 3, 76 al.—Hence, sub axe, under the open heaven, Verg. A. 2, 512; 8, 28.—d.A region of the heavens, a clime: boreus,
the north
, Ov. Tr. 4, 8, 41: hesperius,
the west
, id. M. 4, 214; Luc. 3, 359.—C.A pin or hook on which a hinge turns, Stat. Th. 1, 346.—D.The valve of a pipe, Vitr. 10, 12.—E. Axes volutarum, in archit., the axes of a volute, Vitr. 3, 3.—F.A board, plank, Caes. B. C. 2, 9; Vitr. 4, 2; 7, 1; Col. 6, 30, 2; Plin. 36, 25, 62, 187; Luc. 3, 455; Gell. 2, 12 al.—G.An unknown wild animal in India, Plin. 8, 21, 31, 76.
