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fragmen , ĭnis, n. FRAG, frango. *
I. A fracture: “percussit subito deceptum fragmine pectus,” Val. Fl. 3, 477.—
II. Mostly in plur.: fragmina, um, pieces broken off, fragments, ruins, wreck (poet. and in postAug. prose for the class. fragmenta).
(α). Plur.: “silvarum,” Lucr. 1, 284; 5, 1284: “remorum,” Verg. A. 10, 306: “mucronis,” id. ib. 12, 741: “navigii,” Ov. M. 11, 561; cf. “ratis,” id. ib. 14, 563: “adjacebant fragmina telorum equorumque artus,” Tac. A. 1, 61: “subselliorum,” Suet. Ner. 26: “panis,” crumbs, id. Claud. 18: “favorum, quae in sacco remanserunt,” Col. 9, 15 fin.—Absol. of bits of wood, chips: “taedas et fragmina poni Imperat,” Ov. M. 8, 459.—
(β). Sing.: “Ilioneus saxo atque ingenti fragmine montis Lucetium sternit,” fragment of a mountain, piece of rock, Verg. A. 9, 569; 10, 698; Vulg. Judic. 9, 53 al.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.563
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.561
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.459
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 10.306
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 9.569
    • Suetonius, Divus Claudius, 18
    • Suetonius, Nero, 26
    • Tacitus, Annales, 1.61
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.284
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.1284
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 3.477
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 9.15
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