Dorsum, dorsi, & Dorsus, huius dorsus, secundÛ probum. Plau. A back of man or beast: a promontory or hil lying out.Curuum dorsum. Sen. Pandum. Sen. Recurua dorsa campi. Claud. Crepido longi dorsi.Stat.The top or extreame part of a long promontory.Duplici dentalia dorso.Virg.Subire onus dorso. Hor. To take the burden on his back. Dorsum in mari.Virg.A shelfe or heape of sand gathered in the sea.Dorsum.Plin. iun.A tidge or slde of an hil.Dossualia.Panels or pack saddles.Dossum antiqui dicebant, quod nunc dorsum dicimus. Inde Dossuaria iumenta. Var. Pack horses or mules.Aselli dossuarij. Varro.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dorsum, i, n. (masc. dorsus, Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 44; quoted ap. Non. 203, 6) [cf. Gr. deirh/, de/rh, neck], the back (in class. prose, only of beasts of burden; poet. and later also of men; cf.: tergum, tergus). I. Prop., Plaut. l. l.; id. Ep. 1, 1, 85; id. Trin. 3, 2, 93; Plin. 11, 37, 86, 214; Verg. G. 3, 116; Hor. S. 1, 9, 21.—Prov.: dorsus prurit, i. e.
I begin to take
, Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 44.—II.Transf., of things analogous in form or position: jugi, i. e. the ridge, summit of a hill, Caes. B. G. 7, 44; Liv. 44, 4: montis, id. 1, 3; 41, 18; Tac. A. 4, 47: Apennini, Suet. Caes. 44: praerupti nemoris, Hor. S. 2, 6, 91; cf. nemoris, Verg. G. 3, 436: speluncae, i. e.
the rock
, id. A. 8, 234; cf. of a cliff, id. ib. 1, 110; 10, 303 Serv.; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 17; 9, 7, 4: viae,
