Plectrum
plectrum, a stick for playing on a stringed instrument, quill, plectrum
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Parsed as:
neuter vocative singular
neuter accusative singular
neuter nominative singular
neuter genitive plural of
plectrum
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…et terminat atque sonos vocis distinctos et pressos efficit, cum et dentes et alias partes pellit oris ; itaque plectri similem linguam nostri solent dicere, chordarum dentes, nares cornibus is quae ad nervos resonant in cantibus. Quam…
M. Tullius Cicero, de Natura Deorum
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…vertitur aetas, tranquillaeque faces oculis et plurima vultu mater inest qualis Lycia venator Apollo cum redit et saevis permutat plectra pharetris. forte et laetus adest o quantum gaudia formae adiciunt fetam Pholoes sub rupe leaenam perculerat ferro vacuisque reliquerat…
Statius, P. Papinius, Achilleis
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…verrit humum Tyrio saturata murice palla, instrictamque fidem gemmis et dentibus Indis sustinet a laeva ; tenuit manus altera plectrum. Artificis status ipse fuit. Tum stamina docto pollice sollicitat, quorum dulcedine captus Pana iubet Tmolus citharae submittere…
Ovid, Metamorphoses
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…, stantem aut Strymona Bistones viderent, cum carmen rapidus latex sitiret ; nec si Peliaco datus bimembri ad Centaurica plectra constitissem, hinnitum duplicis timens magistri ; nec si me docuisset ille fari, iussus pascere qui gregem est clientis…
Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina
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…palen et spargere caestus, ludus erat requiesque mihi ; nec maior in istis sudor, Apollinco quam fila sonantia plectro cum quaterem priscosque virum mirarer honores. quin etiam sucos atque auxiliantia morbis gramina, quo nimius staret medicamine sanguis…
Statius, P. Papinius, Achilleis