I. A hand's-breadth, or palm, in length, width, etc.: “virgulae,” Varr. R. R. 1, 35: “spatia,” Col. 8, 3; 11, 3: “scrobes,” Pall. 3, 24: “palmarem in minutiem contrahi,” Arn. 6, 204.—
II. Of palms, full of palms, palm-: “lucus,” Amm. 24, 4, 7.—
B. Trop., that merits the palm or prize, excellent (class.): “statua,” Cic. Phil. 6, 5, 15: “sententia,” id. N. D. 1, 8, 20: dea, the goddess of victory, because she is represented with a palm-branch, App. M. 2, p. 116, 2.
