A reede: a wheaten or oten straw: a pype or whistle: a writing penne: a sishing rodde: a lyme twigge: a little twigge or greffe: a dart or arrow: the ile or forme of an oration: a pole to meate with. Fragiles calami. Virg. Brickle reedes. Lentus in frangendo calamus. Plin. Tough in breaking. Palustres calami. Ouid. Calamus auenæ. Plin. An oten straw. Calamus. Virg. A pipe. Arguti calami. Sil. Londe or shrill pypes. Dispares calami ceræ compagine inter so iuncti. Ouid. Hiantes calamos labro percuttere. Lucret. Leues calamos inflare. Virg. Æquiparate calamis aliquÊ. Virg. To play as wel on apipe. Coniungere cera calamos. Virg. Ludere agresti calamo. Virg. Id est stylo rustico carmen bucolicum scribere aut componere. Terere calamo labellum. Virg. To play on his pype. Calamus. Martial. A lyme rodde. Volucrem calamo sequi. Sil. Calamus. Plin. A greffe. Calamus. Ouid. An atrow. Calamus. Martial. A writing penne. Calamum mtingere. Quint. To dippe his penne in the ynke. Rudis calamus loriptorius. Celsus. Calamus, Plin. A sweete cane growing in Arabie.

To call. Calata comitia Gel.

I. Lit., a reed, cane (pure Lat. harundo; cf. canna), Plin. 16, 36, 65, 159 sq.; 16, 21, 33, 80; Col. 3, 15, 1; 4, 4, 1; Pall. Nov. 22, 3 al.: aromaticus (found in Syria and Arabia), sweet calamus, Col. 12, 52, 2: odoratus, Plin. 12, 22, 48, 104; Veg. 6, 13, 3.—Also absol.: calamus, Cato, R. R. 105, 2; Plin. 13, 1, 2, 8 sq.: Syriacus, Veg. 4, 13, 4.—

II. Meton.

A. For objects made of reeds (cf. harundo, and Liddell and Scott, under ka/lamos).

1. A reed-pen (cf. Dict. of Antiq.; class.): quicumque calamus in manus meas inciderit, eo utar tamquam bono, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 14 (15 b), 1: sumere, id. Att. 6, 8, 1: calamo et atramento militare, Cato ap. Ruf. p. 199: quoad intinguntur calami, Quint. 10, 3, 31: transversus, Hor. A. P. 447: scriptorius, Cels. 7, 11; 7, 27; Scrib. 10, 47.—

2. A reed-pipe, reed (cf. Lucr. 5, 1380 sq.; the form is described in Tib. 2, 5, 32; Ov. M. 1, 711): unco saepe labro calamos percurrit hiantes, with curved lip runs over the open reeds, Lucr. 4, 590; 5, 1382; 5, 1407; Verg. E. 2, 34; 5, 48; 1, 10; 2, 32; 5, 2; Cat. 63, 22; Prop. 3 (4), 17, 34; 4 (5), 1, 24; Ov. M. 11, 161 al.—

3. An arrow: hastas et calami spicula Gnosii, Hor. C. 1, 15, 17; Verg. E. 3, 13; Prop. 2 (3), 19, 24; Ov. M. 7, 778; 8, 30; Juv. 13, 80; cf. Plin. 16, 36, 65, 159 sq.—

4. An angling-rod, fishing-rod: calamo salientes ducere pisces, Ov. M. 3, 587.—

5. A lime-twig for snaring birds, Prop. 3 (4), 13, 46; Mart. 13, 68; 14, 218; Sen. Oct. 411.—

6. A signal-pole or rod, Col. 3, 15, 1 sq.—

7. A measuring-rod, Vulg. Ezech. 40, 5 al.—

B. Transf. to things of a similar form.

1. In gen., any straw of grain, a stalk, stem, blade: lupini calamus, Verg. G. 1, 76: calamus altior frumento quam hordeo, Plin. 18, 7, 10, 61.—

2. A graft, a scion, Plin. 17, 14, 24, 102 sq.; 17, 18. 30, 129; 24, 14, 75, 123; Col. 4, 29, 9.—

3. A small rod, used in Egypt for pointing out the way, Plin. 6, 29, 33, 166.—

4. The hollow arm of a candelabra, Vulg. Exod. 25, 31 sq.