Musculus, pen. cor. Diminut. Plin. Cic.A little monse or ratte. Musculus.Plaut. Plin. A muscle or fleshie part of the body cõpact of flesh, veynes, sinewes, and arteries, seruing especially to the motion of some part of the body by meanes of the sinewes in it.Conunlsus musculus. Vide CONVELLO. Musculus præcisus. Celsus. Musculus. Cæs. An engine of warre vnder which men safely approch to the walles of a towne to fill the ditches. Museculus. Claud. A fishe whiche is guide to the whale that he runneth not vpon rockes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
muscŭlus, i, m.dim. [mus], a little mouse. I.Lit., Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33; Plin. 27, 7, 28, 52.—II.Transf.A. Of other creatures. 1.A companion of the whale, Plin. 9, 62, 88, 186; called musculus marinus, id. 11, 37, 62, 165.—2.A sea-mussel, Cels. 3, 6; 2, 29; Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 9 (al. mytilus). —B. Of things. 1.A muscle of the body: quodcunque musculum laesit, Cels. 5, 26, 3; 8, 1: femorum, Luc. 9, 771.—Trop., muscle, vigor (post-Aug.): hanc (historiam) ossa, musculi, nervi decent,
vigor, force
, Plin. Ep. 5, 8, 10.—2. In milit. lang., a shed, mantelet (cf.: vinea, testudo); for its form and construction, v. Caes. B. C. 2, 10, 1; id. B. G. 7, 84; Veg. R. Mil. 4, 16.—3.A kind of small sailing vessel: longae naves sunt, quas dromones vocamus: dictae eo quod longiores sint ceteris: quibus contrarius musculus, curtum navigium, Isid. Orig. 19, 1.
