Iron: a weapon or sworde: a toole of yron: an arrow head. Ferrum aliquando pro gladio accipitur. Cic. A sworde. In ferrum atque in vincula coniecta. Cic. Acies ferri stricta. Virg. Rigor ferri. Virg. Stridor ferri. Virg. Acutum ferrum. Virg. Aduncum. Ouid. Infandum. Lucan. Candens. Lucr. Infestum Ouid. Debile. Stat. Iniustum. Ouid. Duri robora ferri. Lucr. Lethale. Iuuen. Graue. Senec. Nefandum. Ouid. Hebes. Iuuena. Rigidum. Claud. Ex solido tabularia ferro. Ouid. Absumere ferro aliquem. Virg. To ail with the sword. Accipere ferrum pectoribus. Sil. To receiue a wounde with a sworde in the breast. Acuere ferrum. Hor. To sharpen a sworde. Adegit ferrum in viscera. Sil. Hee thrust a sworde into ones bellie. Ada ctum ferrum per pectus. Ouid. A sworde thruste through his brcast. Aperire pectus ferro. Sen. Applicatum ferrum. Colu. Ardens ferrum. Val. Flac. A bright glittering sword. Gracili armara ferro. Sen. Armare ferruin veneno. Virg. To poyson his weapon, or arrow head. Ancipiti fetro cædere aliquid. Lucr. Cæsus ferro. Sen. Imbelle ferrum capessere. Val. Flac. Cernere ferro Virg. To trie by dint of sword. Collapsus ferro. Virg Falling downe vppon his sworde and killing himselfe. Certis locis cum ferro homines collocati. Cic. Compescere culpam ferro. Vir. To cut off that is corrupted, that it insect not other: also to punishe. Condit ferrum sub aduerso pecto re. Virg. Hee thrusteth hys sword into. Coniectum in guttura ferrum pressit. Ouid. Consumere ferrum pectore. Stat. To be thruste thorough: to receiue the blade of the sworde into his bodie. Conuellere aliquid feiro. Virg. Conuertere ferrum ab vno in alium. Ouid. Lato crispans hastilia ferro. Virg. A broad head. Decernere ferro. Virg. Defringere ferrum. Virg. Demetere aliquid ferro. Hor. To cut off. Demittere ferrum in artus. Ouid. To thrust in. Deregere ferrum. Lucan. To drawe his sworde. Distringere in mortem alicuius ferrum. Tacit. Idem. Ducere ferrum vagina. Ouid. Idem. Funera dare ferro. Virg. To kil with. Dedit obuia ferro pectora. Virg. Elicere ferrum è terræ cauernis. Cic. To digge iron. Eripere ferrum vagina. Virg. To drawe a sworde. Excindere portam ferro. Virg. To cut downe. Excipere feriū aduerso pectore. S. To be thrust into % bodie. Excutere ferrum alicui. Lucan. Exigere spiritum ferro. Sen. To kill himselfe. Exegit ferrum per viscera domini. Lucan. He thrust hys maister through with his sworde. Exoluere brachia ferro. Tacit. Fœdare aliquem ferro. Virg. Foderevterum ferro. Tacit. To thruste a sworde into ones wombe. Fodiendus hic est ferro. Sene. Gliscere ferro. Stat. Hausit pectora ferro. Ouidius. Hee thruste a sworde into his breast. Iacet ferro meus coniux. Sen. Is staine with. Icta ferro pinus. Hora. Immori ferro. Sen. To die vpon a sworde. Impulit ferrum in meos penates. Ouid. Incumbere ferro. Ouid. To fall vpon his sword and kil himselfe. Ferro semet induere. Sen. To runne vpon a sword. Acuto ferro faces inspicat, Vide INSPICO. Instructí ferro. Virg. Readie appointed with weapons: wearing swordes. Interimi ferro. Quint. Cum ferro aliquem aduenientem inuadere. Cic. Irruimus ferro. Virg. Lacerare ferro aliquem. Horat. Lacessere aliquem ferro. Virg To assaile with. Scabie & rubigine ferrum lædere. Virgil. To burte a toole with canker and rust. Nigro liucntia ferro crura. Clau. Mactare hostiam ferro. Virg. Maculatum sanguine ferrum. Ouid. Mergere ferrum ingulo. Sen. To thrust into his throat. Igni ferróque patriæ minitari. Cic. Agrum ferro & flammis mitigat. Hor. Moliri ferrum in aliquem. Ouid. To prepare his weapon to strike at one: to lift vp his hande to strike. Ignis ferrum mollit. Hor. Mori ferro. Sen. Nocens ferrum. Ouid. Obsistere ferro, ne quis accedat. Cic. Occisus ferro. Quint. Occumbere ferro. Ouid. Ferro non parcere. Lucan. Patefacere viam ferro. Tacit. To make way with the sworde. Perfusum ferrum gemina cæde. Seneca. A sworde distained with the death of two. Petere aliquem ferro. Ouid. To assaile or strike at with. Recludere pectus ferro. Sen. To thruste into. Reformidare serrum. Quint. Reponere ferrum Stat. To put vp his sworde. Rescindere aliquid ferro. Virg. Reserare pectus ferro. Sen. To wounde in the breaste. Resoluit ingulum ferro Ouid. He cut his throat with. Retundere ferrum iugulis. Lucan. To dull swords. Retusum ferrum. Virg. A toole made blunt or dull. Rubens igne ferrum. Ouid. Glowing hote. Satiare ferrum sanguine. Ouid. To satisfie hym selfe wyth murther. Secare collum ferro. Virg Nudo ferro sequi aliquem. Ouid. Sequi extrema ferro. Virg. Splendenti lancea ferro. Ouid. A iaueline wyth a brighte heade. Sternere ferro aliquem. Sen. Stringere ferrum Stat. To drawe. Superare ferrum duritia. Ouid. To be harder than. Inerti ferro tentare aliquem. Claud. Traiecta ferro pectora. Virg. Ones breast thrust through. Nullo violabere ferro. Ouid. Ardenti vritur ferro. luuen. He is burned with a hote iron. Vulneratus ferro. Quint.

I. Lit., Plin. 34, 14, 39, 138; Lucr. 1, 571; 5, 1241; 1286; Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 151; id. Leg. 2, 18, 45; Caes. B. G. 5, 12, 5; Hor. S. 1, 4, 20 et saep.: mustum quod resipit ferrum, has a taste of iron, Varr. R. R. 1, 54, 3.—

B. Poet.

1. As a fig. of hard-heartedness, unfeelingness, cruelty, etc.: gerere ferrum in pectore, Ov. M. 9, 614; cf.: ferrum et scopulos gestare in corde, id. ib. 7, 33: durior ferro, id. ib. 14, 712; hence for the iron age, id. ib. 1, 127; 15, 260; Hor. Epod. 16, 65.—

2. As an image of firmness, endurance, Ov. Pont. 4, 10, 3.—

II. Transf., any thing made of iron, an iron implement, as a plough: glebas proscindere ferro, Lucil. ap. Non. 401, 19: solum terrae, Lucr. 5, 1295; cf. also, campum, Ov. M. 7, 119: ferro scindimus aequor, Verg. G. 1, 50; a hatchet: ferro mitiget agrum, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 186; an axe: mordaci velut icta ferro Pinus, id. C. 4, 6, 9; 4, 4, 60 (for which, shortly before, bipennis); cf. Lucr. 6, 168; a dart: petita ferro belua, Hor. Epod. 5, 10; the tip of an arrow: exstabat ferrum de pectore aduncum, Ov. M. 9, 128; the head (of a spear), Tac. G. 6; an iron stylus: dextra tenet ferrum, id. ib. 9, 522; hair-scissors: solitus longos ferro resecare capillos, id. ib. 11, 182; curling-irons: crines vibratos calido ferro, Verg. A. 12, 100 et saep.—Esp. freq. a sword: Drusum ferro. Metellum veneno sustulerat, Cic. N. D. 3, 33, 81: in aliquem cum ferro invadere, id. Caecin. 9, 25: aut ferro aut fame interire, Caes. B. G. 5, 30 fin.: uri virgis ferroque necari, Hor. S. 2, 7, 58; cf.: gladiator, ferrum recipere jussus, the stroke of the sword, Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 41. So, ferrum et ignis, like our fire and sword, to denote devastation, utter destruction: huic urbi ferro ignique minitantur, Cic. Phil. 11, 14, 37; cf.: hostium urbes agrique ferro atque igni vastentur, Liv. 31, 7, 13: pontem ferro, igni, quacumque vi possent, interrumpant, id. 2, 10, 4; 30, 6, 9; 1, 59, 1: ecce ferunt Troës ferrumque ignemque Jovemque In Danaas classes, Ov. M. 13, 91: inque meos ferrum flammasque penates Impulit, id. ib. 12, 551; so, conversely, igni ferroque, Cic. Phil. 13, 21, 47; Liv. 35, 21, 10; cf. Tac. A. 14, 38; Suet. Claud. 21: flamma ferroque, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 35, 78; Flor. 2, 17, 15; 3, 18, 14; Sen. Const. Sap. 2, 2: ferrum, i. q. arms, for battle, war, force of arms: ferro, non auro, vitam cernamus, utrique, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. v. 202 ed. Vahl.); cf.: quem nemo ferro potuit superare nec auro, id. ap. Cic. Rep. 3, 3 (Ann. v. 220 ed. Vahl.): adnuit, sese mecum decernere ferro, id. ap. Prisc. p. 822 P. (Ann. v. 136 ed. Vahl.): decernere ferro, Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317; Liv. 40, 8 fin.; Verg. A. 7, 525; 11, 218: cernere ferro, id. ib. 12, 709: ferro regna lacessere, with war, id. ib. 12, 186; cf.: atque omnis, Latio quae servit purpura ferro, i. e. made subject by the force of arms, Luc. 7, 228.— Prov.: ferrum meum in igni est, i. q. mea nunc res agitur, Sen. Mort. Claud.