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thoracis

thoracis [θωρακίς = breastplate, chest, or as back-formation from CL thorax], statue or other artistic representation of human form from (at least) the chest upwards. Colosus [vv. ll. add toraciclus, toracidus] Aldh. Aen. 72 tit.; omnes simulacrorum toracidas [v. l. toraciclas; gl.: i. culturas, thoraciclas imagines, anclicnyssa] ad solum cernuas diruit Id. VirgP 38; regalium personarum pictores deauratis petalis toracidas [vv. ll. toraciclas, thoraciclas; gl.: staturas, imagines] ornare Ib. 60; munusculum / quoddam addunt pulcherrimum, / toracidas [v. l. toracyclos], tuentibus / retorquentes luminibus / imagines auriferis / Christi matris capitibus (Æthelwald) Carm. Aldh. 2. 171; alvum purgavit super toracidam beate Marie Anselm Bury Mir. Virg. 30 (cf. ib.: imaginem ‥ Marie).

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