Poples, poplitis, pen. cor. m. g. Colu. The hamme of ones leg behinde the knee.Defectus poples.Ouid.Firmus.Ouid. Succiduus. Ouid.Lapsus. Lucan. Suspensus. Stat.Nodosus.Ouid. Tensus. Stat. Contendere poplitem, Vide CONTENDO.Deposito victum præbebat poplite collum. Lucan. Beeing on his knees he helde out his necke vnto them.Duplicato poplite ad tertam incidit.Virg.His knees bowing he fel downe to the grounde.Excipere se poplitibus. Curt. To fall and staye himselfe on his knees.Flcxo poplite sidunt.Stat.They fall downe on their knees.Submisso poplite. Catul.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
poplĕs, ĭtis, m.I.Lit.: the ham of the knee, the hough (cf. suffrago): genua poplitesque et crura, Col. 6, 12, 3: succisis feminibus poplitibusque, Liv. 22, 51, 7: succiso poplite, Verg. A. 9, 762; cf. Liv. 22, 48, 4; Hor. C. 3, 2, 16: elephas poplites intus flectit hominis modo, Plin. 11, 45, 101, 248; 28, 6, 17, 59.—II.Transf., in gen., the knee, Luc. 9, 771; Lucr. 4, 953: duplicato poplite, i. e.
with bended knee
, Verg. A. 12, 927: se collegit in arma poplite subsidens, id. ib. 12, 492: contento poplite,
with a stiff knee
, Hor. S. 2, 7, 97: nec parcit imbellis juventae Poplitibus, id. C. 3, 2, 16: poplitibus semet excipit,