Globus, globi, m. g. Virg.A bowle or other thing very round. Globus Salust.Liu.A multitude of men or beastes, gathered in a plumpe.Globus armatorum.Liu.A troupe of men of warre.Hostiles globi. Claud. Troupes.Cordis globus. Lucr. Flammarum globos attollit Ætna.Virg.Casteth out greate round flames of fire.Lanæ globi. Horat. Packes of wooll, or lockes of wooll.Sanguinis globos vomit.Ouid.He vomiteth clots of bloud.Stellatum globi.Cic.Globus terræ eminens è mati.Cic.The round earth appearing aboue the sea.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
glŏbus, i, m. [kindr. with glomus], a round body, a ball, sphere, globe.I.Lit.A. In gen.: cum duae formae praestantes sint, ex solidis globus (sic enim sfai=ran interpretari placet), ex planis autem circulus aut orbis, qui ku/klos Graece dicitur, Cic. N. D. 2, 18, 47: ille globus, quae terra dicitur, id. Rep. 6, 15: terrae, id. Tusc. 1, 28, 68; cf. stellarum, id. Rep. 6, 16; 6, 17: solis et lunae, Lucr. 5, 472; cf. lunae, id. 5, 69: cum caelum discessisse visum est atque in eo animadversi globi,
fire-balls
, Cic. Div. 1, 43, 97: in fundas visci indebant grandiculos globos, Plaut. Poen. 2, 35: cordis, poet. for cor, Lucr. 4, 119: farinae, Varr. L. L. 5, 107 Müll.; v. in the foll.—B. In partic. 1.A dumpling: a globo farinae dilatato item in oleo cocti dicti globi, Varr. L. L. 5, 107 Müll.; Cato, R. R. 79.—2. In milit. lang., a close order of battle, a knot, troop, band, company, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. serra, p. 344 b. Müll.: cum globo juvenum, Liv. 1, 6, 7; 1, 12, 9: emissi militum globi turbam disjecere, Tac. A. 14, 61; 4, 50; 12, 43; 15, 60; Sil. 7, 53.—II.Transf., a globular mass, a ball, globe of things collected together (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cicero nor Cæsar): flammarumque globos liquefactaque volvere saxa, globes or masses of flame, Verg. G. 1, 473: sanguinis, Ov. M. 12, 238: nubium, Luc. 4, 74; Tac. A. 2, 23: telorum, Val. Fl. 6, 381. —A throng, crowd, body, or mass of people: extrema contio et circa Fabium globus increpabant inclementem dictatorem, Liv. 8, 32, 13: circa eum aliquot hominum, ne forte violaretur, constitisset globus, id. 2, 29, 2: cum repelleretur adsertor virginis a globo mulierum, id. 3, 47, 8: aditum senatus globus togatorum obsederat, Tac. A. 16, 27: magno semper electorum juvenum globo circumdari, id. G. 13; and with a contemptuous secondary notion: si quem ex illo globo nobilitatis ad hoc negotium mittatis,
