Trabs, trabis, vel Trabes. trabis, f g. Ci. A beame of an house. Any great peece of timber.Abiegna trabes.Cic.Transtra ex pedalibus in altitudinem trabibus. Cæs. Sylua frequens trabibus.Ouid.A wood ful of great trees.Acernis trabibus contextus equus. Vir. Ahenæ trabes. Claud. Brasen beames.Annosæ trabes.Stat.Old beames.Compactiles trabes. Vitr. Beames ioyned of sundrie preces.Excisa trabs.Virg.Fractæ trabes.Iuuen. Fraxineæ. Virg.Nexæ trabes ære. Vir. Perpetua trabes, Vide PERPBTVVS.Plana trabs. Cato. A peece of timber planed.Quadrifida.Val. Flac.Saucia securi trabs.Ouid.A tree cut with an are.Solidæ trabes Ouid.Sublimi trabe pendêre.Ouid. Trabs, pro naui. Hor. A ship.Natantis trabis impetus. Catul. Of a ship flitting.Turbatur mare trabibus. Vir. Vasta trabs. Pers. A great ship.Vastúmque caua trabe corrimus æquor. Vir.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
trabs, trăbis (ante-class. collat. form of the nom. trăbes, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 75; id. Fat. 15, 35; id. Top. 16, 61, or Trag. v. 281 Vahl.; Cic. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, 33 Müll., or Ann. v. 598 Vahl.), f. [tra/phc]. I.Lit., a beam, a timber: tigna trabesque, Lucr. 2, 192 sq.; v. tignum; Caes. B. G. 2, 29; 3, 13; 7, 23; id. B. C. 2, 9; Plin. 16, 38, 73, 184; Gell. 1, 13, 17; Ov. M. 3, 78.— II.Transf.A.A tree: silva frequens trabibus, Ov. M. 8, 329; cf. id. ib. 14, 360: securi Saucia trabs ingens, id. ib. 10, 373; cf. Varr. ap. Non. 178, 31; Prop. 3 (4), 22, 38: fraxineae, Verg. A. 6, 181: lucus trabibus obscurus acernis, id. ib. 9, 87: Val. Fl. 5, 640. — B. Any thing made of beams or timbers. 1. Very freq., a ship or vessel: abiegna trabes, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 75: trabes rostrata per altum, id. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, 33: jam mare turbari trabibus ... vide bis, Verg. A. 4, 566: ut trabe Cypria Myrtoum pavidus nauta secet mare, Hor. C. 1, 1, 13; Ov. P. 1, 3, 76: Thessalica, Sen. Agam. 120.—2.A roof: sub trabe citreā, Hor. C. 4, 1, 20; so in plur., id. ib. 2, 18, 3; 3, 2, 28. —3.A battering - ram, ballista, etc., Val. Fl. 6, 383.—4.A javelin, Stat. Th. 5, 566; 9, 124.—5.A club, cudgel, Stat. Th. 1, 621.—6.A table, Mart. 14, 91, 2.—7.A torch, Sen. Herc. Fur. 103. — 8. In mal. part. = mentula, Cat. 28, 10.—C. A fiery phenomenon in the heavens, a meteor: emicant et trabes simili modo, quas dokou\s vocant, qualis cum Lacedaemonii classe victi imperium Graeciae amisere, Plin. 2, 26, 26, 96: trabes et globi et faces et ardores, Sen. Q. N. 1, 1, 5; 1, 1, 15; 1, 15, 4; 7, 4, 3-5; 7, 5, 21; id. Ep. 94, 56.
