Lineo, lineas, lineâte. Plaut. Cato. To drawe lines: to drawe the figure of a thing in lines.
Linum, lini, m. g. Plin. Line or slate: a threede: a cable or rope in a ship: a casting net or dragge.Seges lini vrit campum.Virg.Lini semen. Plin. Line seede. Linum crudum. Cels. Linum factum. Vlpian. Flare wrought: yarne.Linum infectum. Vlpian. Flare vnspunne.Carpere linum, Vide CARPO.Linum. Cels. A threede. Traijcere duo lina acu. Cels. Linum.Virg.A draggenet.
Linus, The moste auntient Poet, a Theban, whome Virgil calleth the son of Apollo, & Vrania one of the nine Muses.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
līnĕo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.], to reduce to a straight line, to make straight or perpendicular. I.Lit.: dolabit, lineabit, secabitque materiam, Cato, R. R. 14, 3: bene lineata carina, Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 40: radios, Vitr. 9, 4, 13.—II.Transf., pass. part. A.Striped: basiliscus albis maculis lineatus, Isid. 12, 4, 7; 16, 12, 4.—B.Decked out: inter comatos lineatosque juvenes, Hier. Ep. 117, n. 6.
Lĭnus (-os), i, m., = *li:nos, Linus. I.A son of Apollo and Psammate, daughter of Crotopus, king of the Argives; he was given by his mother to the care of shepherds, and one day, being left alone, was torn to pieces by dogs; whereupon Apollo sent into the land a monster which destroyed everything, until slain by Chorœbus, Stat. Th. 6, 64; 1, 557 sqq.—II.The son of Apollo and Terpsichore, instructor of Orpheus and Hercules, the latter of whom killed him by a blow with the lyre: flam, ut ego opinor, Hercules, tu autem Linus, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 47; Verg. E. 4, 56; Prop. 2, 10 (3, 4), 8, who confounds him with the preceding. According to others, he was a son of Mercury and Urania, and was killed by Apollo in Eubœa, Hyg. Fab. 161; Mart. 9, 86, 4.—III.A fountain in Arcadia, Plin. 31, 2, 7, 10.