Funda, huius fundæ. Virg.A sling.Balearis verbera fundæ.Virg.Cita funda. Tibul. Lata funda. Ouid.Teretes fundæ.Stat. Torta funda. Propert. More fundæ rotare aliquem.Ouid. Funda.Virg.A casting nette. Funda.Macrob.A satchel or purse like a net: a bouget. Funda. Plin. A circle of golde where in stones are so set that they may be seene both aboue and beneath.
Fundo, fundas, fundâre. Virgil. To found: to make stable: to lay the foundation.Arces fundare.Virg.To beginne to builde.Fundata legibus ciuitas: cui opponitur, Euersa.Plin. iun.A citie stablished with good lawes.Accuratè sundata & extructa disciplina. Ci. A doctrine suhstantially grounded and taught on sure principles.Fundatam paternis auitisque opibus domum exhaurit. Qui. Leuiter fundata fides, Vide LEVIS.Magnis laboribus fundatum imperium.Cic.Established.Ius ciuile fundare. Pompon. To found and establish.Fundare nauem.Plaut.To make or builde a shippe.Anchora fundabat naues.Virg.The aneker stayed the ships.Opes bene fundatæ.Ouid.Power or riches well grounded or established.Præclarè fundata Respublica.Cic.Established in very good order.Sceptra fundare Sil.To establish his king dome.Fixus & sundatus Reipub. status. Cic.Fundatum veritare.Cic.Grounded vpon truth.Vrbem fundabit legibus.Virg.Fundatissima familia.Cic.A substantial and well grounded familie.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
funda, ae, f. [Sanscr. spandē, itch; Gr. sfada/zw, to move convulsively; sfodro/s, sfedano/s, impassioned; sfendo/nh; cf. 3. fūsus], a sling.I.Lit.: funda dicta eo, quod ex ea fundantur lapides, id est emittantur, Isid. Orig. 18, 10, 1: inde fundis, sagittis, tormentis hostes propelli ac summoveri jussit, Caes. B. G. 4, 25, 1; 5, 35fin.; 5, 43, 1; Liv. 38, 29, 4 sq.; Plin. 7, 56, 57, 201; Plaut. Poen. 2, 32 sq.; Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 16; Cic. poët. Fragm. ap. Quint. 8, 6, 73; Verg. G. 1, 309; id. A. 9, 586; Ov. M. 4, 517 al.—II.Transf.A. That which is thrown with a sling, the sling-stone, missile,, Sil. 10, 152. —B.A casting-net, drag-net, Verg. G. 1, 141.—C. (From the similarity to the hollow of a sling in which the stone lay, like sfendo/nh.) The hollow of a ring in which a jewel is set, the bezel, Plin. 37, 8, 37, 116 (in Cic. Off. 3, 9, 38, called pala anuli).—D.A money-bag, purse, Macr. S. 2, 4 fin.
