Organum, pro Cithara posuit Iuuenalis. Afsiciuntur animi in diueisum habitum organis. Quintil.With musicall instruments mens mindes are mooued to sundrie affections.Commouetur animus maioribus velut organis. Quint. Organum. Col. An instrument to measure land with.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
orgănum, i, n., = o)/rganon, an implement, instrument, engine of any kind (mostly post-Aug.), Col. 3, 13, 12.—Of military or architectonic engines (whereas machina denotes one of a larger size and more complicated construction), Vitr. 10, 1.—Of musical instruments, a pipe, Quint. 11, 3, 20; 9, 4, 10; Juv. 6, 3, 80; Vulg. Gen. 4, 21; id. 2 Par. 34, 12 et saep.—Of hydraulic engines, an organ, water-organ: organa hydraulica, Suet. Ner. 41: aquatica, Mythogr. Lat. 3, 12.—Of a church-organ, Cass. Expos. in Psa. 150; Aug. Enarr. in Psa. 150, n. 7.— B.Transf.: organum oris, the tongue of a man, Prud. stef. 10, 2.—II.Trop., an implement, instrument, Quint. 1, 2, 30.
