I.to chip with an axe, to hew.
I. Lit.: “materiem,” Cato R. R. 31 fin.: “taleas,” Cat. 45: “robur,” Cic. Div. 2, 41, 86: scyphum caelo, Varr. ap. Non. 99, 18: “perticas in quadrum,” Col. 8, 3, 7: “stipes falce dolatus,” Prop. 4 (5), 2, 59. “dolato confisus ligno,” Juv. 12, 57; cf.: “non est e robore dolatus,” Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 100: “de lapidibus dolatis,” Vulg. 3 Reg. 6, 7.—
B. Transf.: “fuste,” i. e. to cudgel soundly, belabor, drub, Hor. S. 1, 5, 23.—In mal. part.: uxorem, Pompon. ap. Non. 166, 1. Cf. dedolo.—
II. Trop., to shape, construct: “(historiam) sicut potuit, dolavit,” Cic. de Or. 2, 13, 54.—And in an alliteration: “hodie hunc dolum dolamus,” i. e. to fashion, contrive, devise, Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 64.
2. † dŏlo or dŏlon , ōnis, m., = δόλων, a staff with a short sharp iron point; a pike, sword-stick (cf.: lancea, spiculum, gaesum, hastile, sarissa, sparus): ingens contus cum ferro brevissimo, Varr. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 7, 664. So Verg. l. l.; Sil. 3, 250.—
2. A small sword-cane, hidden dagger, Suet. Claud. 13; id. Dom. 17; Dig. 9, 2, 52; cf. Isid. Orig. 18, 9, 4; Serv. Verg. l. l.—
II. Transf., of a fly's sting, Phaedr. 3, 6, 3.—
