Incus, incûdis, pe. pro. f g. Plin. An annyle.Gladios parante incude.Iuuen.Medijs incudibus ablatum opus.Ouid.A worke taken from the anuile before it mas persectely finished.Duris incudibus impositi enses. Vir. Incudi reddere versus, per translationem. Hor. To put verses to be corrected.Tundere incudem.Cic.To beate the anuyle
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
in-cūdo, di, sum, ĕre, v. a., to forge with the hammer, to fabricate (poet., used only in part. pass.): incusa auro dona, Pers. 2, 52: lapis, an indented or sharpened stone for a handmill, Verg. G. 1, 275; Col. 7, 1, 3.
incūs, ūdis, f. [incudo], an anvil.I.Lit. (class.): sine follibus et incudibus, Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54: si faber incudem fregerit, Dig. 14, 2, 2: impositos duris crepitare incudibus enses, Verg. G. 2, 540: positis incudibus, i. e.
having established smithies
, id. A. 7, 629: novā Incude diffingere ferrum, Hor. C. 1, 35, 39.—Prov.: eandem incudem tundere,
to labor always at the same thing
, Cic. de Or. 2, 39, 162; so Amm. 18, 4, 2; 28, 4, 26.—II.Trop.: haec mihi incus est: procudam ego hinc hodie multos dolos, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 20: juvenes, et in ipsa studiorum incude positi, i. e.
still occupied with their education
, Tac. Or. 20; so, philosophicā incude formatus, Sid. Ep. 4, 1: incudi reddere versus, to return to the anvil, i. e. to revise, retouch, Hor. A. P. 441.