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pecten , ĭnis, m. pecto,
I.a comb.
I. Prop., for the hair, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 18; Ov. Am. 1, 14, 15: “deducit pectine crines,id. M. 4, 311; 12, 409; Petr. 126; Spart. Hadr. 26.—
II. Transf., of things resembling a comb.
A. The reed or sley of a weaver's loom: “arguto tenues percurrens pectine telas,Verg. A. 7, 14; Ov. F. 3, 819; cf. id. M. 6, 58; Varr. L. L. 5, 23, § 113.—
2. The weaver's art, weaving: “victa est Pectine Niliaco jam Babylonis acus,Mart. 14, 150, 2.—
B. An instrument for heckling flax or combing wool, a comb, card, heckle, Juv. 9, 30; Plin. 11, 23, 27, § 77; Claud. Eutr. 2, 382.—
C. A rake: “tonsam raro pectine verrit humum,Ov. R. Am. 191; Plin. 18, 30, 72, § 297; Col. 2, 20.—
D. A clasping of the hands in distress, Ov. M. 9, 299.—Of the mingling of the oars of two vessels: “mixtis obliquo pectine remis,Luc. 3, 609 dub. (al. pectore).—
E. Pecten dentium, a row of teeth, Prud. στεφ. 10, 934.—
F. A stripe or vein in wood, Plin. 16, 38, 73, § 185.—
G. The hair of the pubes, Juv. 6, 370; Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 26.—Also, the sharebone, Cels. 8, 1.—
H. A kind of dance: “Amazonius,Stat. Achill. 2, 156.—
K. An instrument with which the strings of the lyre were struck: “jamque eadem digitis, jam pectine pulsat eburno,Verg. A. 6, 647 Serv.; Juv. 6, 382.—
2. Transf.
a. A lyre, Val. Fl. 3, 159.—
b. A poem or song: “dum canimus sacras alterno pectine Nonas,” i. e. in distichs, Ov. F. 2, 121.—
L. A kind of shell-fish, a scallop: “pectinibus patulis jactat se molle Tarentum,Hor. S. 2, 4, 34; Plin. 9, 33, 51, § 101; 9, 51, 74, § 160; 11, 37, 52, § 139; 11, 51, 112, § 267; 32, 11, 53, § 150.—
M. Pecten Veneris, a plant, perh. Venus's comb, needle-weed, Plin. 24, 19, 114, § 175.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.311
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.299
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.58
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.647
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 7.14
    • Horace, Satires, 2.4.34
    • Plautus, Captivi, 2.2
    • Lucan, Civil War, 3.609
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 11.77
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 29.26
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 3.159
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 8.1
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 2.20
    • Ovid, Fasti, 2
    • Ovid, Fasti, 3
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