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mucro , ōnis, m.,
I.a sharp point or edge; esp., the point of a sword, the sword's point (class.; cf.: acies, cuspis).
I. Lit.: “mucro falcis,” Col. 4, 25, 1: “dentis,” Plin. 8, 3, 4, § 8: “folii,” id. 16, 10, 16, § 38: “crystalli,” id. 37, 2, 9, § “26: cultri,” edge, Juv. 14, 216: “medio jugulaberis ensis,” sword's point, Ov. M. 12, 484: “coruscus,” Verg. A. 2, 333.—
B. Transf.
1. A sword: “nisi mucrones militum tremere voltis,” Cic. Phil. 14, 3, 6: “mortalis,” Verg. A. 12, 740.—
2. A point, extremity, end (poet. and in post-Aug. prose), Lucr. 2, 520: “faucium,” Plin. 6, 13, 15, § 38.—
II. Trop., edge, point, sharpness: “censorii stili,” Cic. Clu. 44, 123: “tribunicius,” id. Leg. 3, 9, 21: “defensionis tuae,” id. Caecin. 29, 84: “ingenii,” sharpness, Quint. 10, 5, 16.
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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    • Cicero, For Aulus Cluentius, 44.123
    • Cicero, For Aulus Caecina, 29.84
    • Cicero, Philippics, 14.3.6
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.484
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 12.740
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.333
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.520
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 37
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 6.38
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 16.38
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 8.8
    • Cicero, De Legibus, 3.9
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, 5.16
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 4.25.1
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