forpex
- fire-tongs, Cato R. R. 10, 3; 11, 5; Suet. Aug. 75; Sid. Epith. 15, 184.
forfices quae ‥ sunt sartorum, ‥ ~ices quae sunt tonsorum
forfices,rœglsceara ; ~ices,fexsceara
rasoria ‥ et ~ices, tersoria ad radendum
episcopus ‥ de mantica ~ices extraxit et ‥ regem ‥ propriis manibus totondit
forpex [v. l. forceps ] a crine recidat / omne supervacuum
tria paria forplicum vocatarumshermannescheres
v dossenis forpicium(v.
lego unumdenfote et unum ~icem pertinencia ad artem follonum
➳ Charisius (94, 21) croit que cʼest le même mot que forceps.
Cisailles. Forpicula, Petite cisaille, in Gloss. Lat. Gall. Sangerm. Vide Forfex.
Si quis quinque solidos valens aut amplius furatus fuerit, laqueo suspendatur ; sin minus scopis et Forpice excorietur et tondeatur.Barel. serm. de Choreis :
O vanæ mulieres ! deferunt... ab alia(parte) pectorale, ex alia cultros : desunt eis Forpices, ut apparerent fabri equorum.
FORPEXa pair of curling irons, is sometimes treated as a mere corruption of FORCEPS; and in an obscure passage of Suetonius (Suet. Aug. 75) both the reading and the sense are doubtful. But the derivation from pecto is obviously appropriate; and it seems to have been an old word (Cat. Agr. 10.3) revived, like so many others, by late authors (Sidon. Apoll. Epith. 15.184). In the classical period its place was taken by calamistri [CALAMISTRU].
[W.W]A pair of curling irons; the word is sometimes treated as a mere corruption of forceps. But the derivation from pecto is obviously appropriate; and it seems to have been an old word (Cat. R. R. x. 3) revived, like many others, by late authors (Sidon. Apoll. Epith. xv. 184). See calamistrum.