Fibra, fibræ, f. g. Festus. The border or brimme of a riuer or other thing.Fibræ iecoris. Virgil The lappes or sillets of the lyuer: the clefts.Fibræ pulmonis. Cels. The lappes of the lights and lungs.Venæ calentes fibrarum. Lucan. Pecudum fibræ.Virg.The inwardes of beastes. Fibræ venarum. Pli. Small strings being in veines, in maner of a graine in woode, either straight or ouerthwart.Fibre sangnis. The strings in bloude, whereby naturally it holdeth togither. In bloud congealed it is like threads, and is taken out beefore they make puddings. Neque hi cornua fibræ est. I am not so harde harted. Fibræ aiborum vel stirpium. Pli. Smal things like haire, growing at the rootes of trees or hearbes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fībra, ae, f. [acc. to Doed. Syn. 3, p. 22, kindr. with filum (cf. the Eng. string in both senses)], a fibre, filament, in a plant, in a part of an animal's body, etc. (cf. nervus). I.Lit.: viriditas herbescens, nixa fibris stirpium, sensim adolescit, Cic. de Sen. 15, 51: omnes radicum fibras evellere, id. Tusc. 3, 6, 13: recurvae radicis, Ov. M. 14, 633: alliorum, Verg. M. 88: tubera undique terra circumdata nullisque fibris nixa aut saltem capillamentis, Plin. 19, 2, 11, 33; Col. 11, 2, 9; 11, 3, 21: pulmo in duas fibras ungulae bubulae modo dividitur..jecur in quatuor fibras dividitur, i. e.
parts
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divisions
, Cels. 4, 11: perlucentes numerare in pectore fibras, Ov. M. 6, 391: quid fissum in extis, quid fibra valeat, accipio, Cic. Div. 1, 10, 16; cf.: pericula praemonent, non fibris modo extisque, sed alia quadam significatione, Plin. 8, 28, 42, 102: altera fibra (jecoris), id. 11, 37, 76, 196; 32, 6, 21, 60: fibrae cincinnorum madentes, Cic. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. G. 1, 120 et saep.—II.Transf., entrails in gen. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): tura focis, vinumque dedit fibrasque bidentis, Ov. F. 4, 935; cf.: caesorumque boum fibris de more crematis, id. M. 13, 637: Promethea, i. e.
the liver devoured by the vulture
, Val. Fl. 7, 355; cf. Verg. A. 6, 600: conscia deorum (as giving prognostics; v. above I.), Tib. 1, 8, 3; cf.: sibi commissos fibra locuta deos, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 104: fibraeque repente Conticuere, Sil. 1, 138: neque mihi cornea fibra est, i. e.
I am not so callous
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insensible
, Pers. 1, 47.—2.Trop., like our word bowels, of the interior of the earth: persequimur omnes ejus (terrae) fibras, Plin. 33 praef. 1.