Fascia, huius fasciæ, f. g. Plin. A swathel, or swathing bande, or other like thing of linnen.Deuintus erat fascijs. Cicero. He was swathed or tied with bandes of linnen.Fascia lecti.Cic.The couering or sheete of a bedde.Lata fascia.Ouid. Mollis fascia. Propert. Fascia pectoralis.A niced wherwith womÊ couer their paps: also a bibbe for a childes breast: a gorget: a mucketter. Fascia. Cels. A band to tie womides or broken limmes. Fasciæ.Cic.A socke or linnen hose. Fasciæ iunci. Plin. Bandes of bulrushes.Fascia.A garter. Fasciæ orbis, pro ijs quas Astrologi Zonas vocant. Martíanus Capella. Fascia aliquando ponitur pro nube.Iuuen.A clowde.Nil fascia nigra minatur. Luuen. This blacke cloude.
Fascio, fascias, fasciâre. Spartian, To swath or binde.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fascĭa (fa/scea), ae, f. [kindred with fascis], a band, bandage, swathe, girth, fillet.I. Prop. (to bind up diseased parts of the body; to wrap round the feet to prevent the boots from rubbing them; to bind under the breasts of women; a headband set with pearls, etc.; syn.: redimiculum, vitta, infula, diadema): devinctus erat fasciis, Cic. Brut. 60, 217; Suet. Dom. 17; id. Galb. 21; Gell. 16, 3, 4; cf.: fasciis crura vestiuntur, Quint. 11, 3, 144: cum vincirentur pedes fasciis, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 537, 5; id. Att. 2, 3, 1 (cf. with Val. Max. 6, 2, 7); Plin. 8, 57, 82, 221; Dig. 34, 2, 25 (with pedules); Lampr. Alex. Sev. 40 al.: carnem praependentem fascia substringere, Suet. Galb. 21: brachio lanis fasciisque obvoluto, id. Dom. 17: inflatum circa fascia pectus eat, Ov. A. A. 3, 274; Mart. 14, 134: vides illum Scythiae regem, insigni capitis decorum? si vis illum aestimare, fasciam solve: multum mali sub illa latet, Sen. Ep. 80 fin.; so of a diadem, Suet. Caes. 79: puero fasciis opus est, cunis, incunabulis, i. e.
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, Plaut. Truc. 5, 13: somniasse se, ovum pendere ex fascia lecti sui cubicularis,
, Plin. 15, 17, 18, 66: nitor, qualem Bruttia praestabat calidi tibi fascia visci, plaster, Juv. 9, 14.— Prov.: non es nostrae fasciae, i. e. of our rank or condition, Petr. 46.—II.Transf.A.The casing of a door, Varr. ap. Non. 451, 20; and 86, 10.— B. In archit., a wreath round a pillar, a listel, Vitr. 3, 3 med.— C.A streak of cloud in the sky: nil color hic caeli, nil fascia nigra minatur, Juv. 14, 294.— D.A zone of the earth: orbi terrae in quinque zonas, sive melius fascias dico, discernitur, Mart. Cap. 6, 602, 607.
fascĭo, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a. [fascia], to envelop with bands, to swathe (post-Aug. and very rare): fasciato trunco, Mart. 12, 57, 12; Capitol. Anton. 13.—Pass., Vulg. Ezech. 30, 21.