cunae

cūnae, ārum (cūna, ae, Prud. Dipt. 112), f., a cradle.

• I Prop.: tune etiam cubitare solitu's in cunis puer? Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 81 (1183): opus est cunis, incunabulis, id. Truc. 5, 13 (905); Cic. Sen. 23, 83; id. Tusc. 1, 39, 93; Quint. 1, 1, 21; Ov. F. 6, 167; id. M. 10, 392; Pers. 2, 31; Juv. 6, 89; Mart. 11, 39, 1; Suet. Aug. 94 et saep.—Of the nests of young birds, Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 10.—
• II Meton., like our cradle, for birth or earliest childhood, Ov. M. 3, 313; 9, 67; cf. cunabula, II. B.

cūnae, ārum, f. (vgl. κοίτη, κεισθαι), die Lagerstätte kleiner Kinder u. Tiere, a) der kleinen Kinder, die Wiege, fasciis opus est, pulvinis, cunis, incunabulis, Plaut.: regem adhuc infantem in cunis locare post aciem, Amm.: in cunis dormire, vagire, Cic.: cunarum fueras motor mearum, Mart.: cunarum labor est angues superare mearum, war schon in der W. meine Arbeit (v. Herkules), Ov. – primis cunis, in der ersten W., bildl. = in der frühesten Kindheit, noch als Wiegenkind, Ov. – b) die Lagerstätte, junger Vögel, das Nest, sub trabibus cunas facere, nisten, Ov. trist. 3, 12, 10. – eines Toten unter der Erde, der Schoß,hic conquiescit cunis terrae mollibus, Anthol. Lat. 1536, 4 M.- ➳ Sing. cuna, ae, f., Varro sat. Men. 222. Prud. dipt. 112.

cunae [CL], ~a , cradle. b (emblem of) infancy. hic tener in cunis quondam dum parvulus esset Aldh. VirgV 655; †curae, st[r]atum infantum GlC C 954; 9‥ in ~is, in cildcradelum WW; paries ‥ sub quo infans quiescebat in ~is W. Cant. Mir. Thom. II 45; puerum intra septa ~arum adhuc morantem Map NC III 5; domum miseram infantulis et ~is ‥ refertam Gir. GE II 22 p. 277; 1306 dum in ~is [CalPat 462: tubs, i. e. †cuvis] jaceret, auriculam suam dextram morsu cujusdam porci casualiter amisit Pat 127 m. 8; hec †~ia, credylle WW; a credylle, ~a, ~e, cunabulum ‥ CathA.  b ~ae, cildcladas GlC C 966; patriae quoniam mens dicere laudes / et veteres cunas properat proferre parumper / Euboricae gratis praeclarae versibus urbis Alcuin SS Ebor 17; 9‥ (v. crepundia c); Hugo Dei legem servare docetur ab ipsis / cunis H. Avr. Hugh 63.

cūnæ, (12) ārum, f. , berceau : Pl. Ps. 1177 ; Cic. CM 83 || nid dʼoiseau : Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 10 || [fig.] première enfance : Ov. M. 3, 313.

cunae , arum. f.
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cūnae ārum, f

• a cradle: in cunis vagire: illum primis cunis Educat, from infancy, O.: cunarum labor, child's work, O.—Of birds, a nest, O.

CUNAE

CUNAE, CUNA´BULA(λίκνου, σκάφη), a cradle. It has been thought that cradles were little used by the Greeks, at least in early times; since Plato in a passage on the putting of infants to sleep mentions only singing the lullaby and rocking in the arms (ἐν ταῖς ἀγκάλαις σείειν, Legg. 7.790 D). But various substitutes are mentioned. Hercules according to tradition was cradled in his father's shield (Theocr. 24.4); Dionysus in a winnowing-fan (λίκνον, vannus), which accordingly was borne in his processions (see the illustration under VANNUS); other deities in the same manner (Hom. Hymn. Merc. 21, &c.; Callim. in Jov. 48, with the Scholia). The ark or cradle in which children were exposed is σκάφη, Aristoph. Lys. 138, with the Scholia; Soph. fr. 574; Aristot. Poet. 16.3; Plut. Rom. 3[= alveus, Liv. 1.4]: but it is only in quite late authors that we find σκάφην διασείειν, to rock a cradle, Ael. NA 11.14. In the Roman period cradles were regularly used (Plant. Truc. 5.13 and elsewhere; Cic. de Div. 1.3. 6, § 79) and were made to rock. We find a female slave called cunaria, apparently distinct from the nutrix (Grut. Inscr. 311, 7); or a male slave, who perhaps in time became the child's paedagogus (cunarum motor, Mart. 11.39, 1; cf. Tac. Dial. 29init.). The illustration, from a sculptured stone found in Burgundy, and figured by Daremberg and Saglio, shows a boat-shaped cradle with the child curiously strapped in.

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