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spongĭa or spongĕa , ae, f., = σπογγιά.
II. Transf., of things resembling a sponge.
A. An open-worked coat of mail, Liv. 9, 40, 3: “retiariorum,Tert. Spect. 25. —In a double sense, with the signif. I.: Ajax in spongeam incubuit, Aug. ap. Macr. S. 2, 4; cf. Suet. Aug. 85.—
B. The root of some plants; “of asparagus,Col. 11, 3, 43; Plin. 19, 8, 42, § 146; Pall. Febr. 24, 8; id. Mart. 9, 11; “of mint,Plin. 19, 8, 47, § 159.—
C. A kind of porous stone, pumice-stone, Vitr. 2, 6; Pall. 1, 10, 3.—
D. A kind of moss, Plin. 19, 4, 22, § 63.—
E. Fragments of iron melted, Plin. 34, 14, 41, § 146.
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    • Cicero, For Sestius, 35.77
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    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.618
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    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 19.63
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 9, 40
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.55
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 70.20
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