snail
snail
subs.
P. κοχλίας, ὁ (Aristotle).
Snail shell: V. στρά̆βηλος, ὁ or ἡ (Soph. Frag.).
subs.
P. κοχλίας, ὁ (Aristotle).
Snail shell: V. στρά̆βηλος, ὁ or ἡ (Soph. Frag.).
SNAIL
cochlea (general term): limax (without a shell). A snail in its shell limax conchae implicitus (Cic.): like a snail cochleae speciem habens referens: a snail’s shell domus cochleae (Suet.); cochlea (Mart.): a snail’s pace (figuratively) incessus tardus lentus (Cic.); gradus testudinum (Plaut. Aul. 1 1 10): people who travel at a snail’s pace homines spissigradissimi tardiores quam corbitae sunt in tranquillo mari (Plaut. Poen. 3 1 4).
cochlea (general term): limax (without a shell). A snail in its shell limax conchae implicitus (Cic.): like a snail cochleae speciem habens referens: a snail’s shell domus cochleae (Suet.); cochlea (Mart.): a snail’s pace (figuratively) incessus tardus lentus (Cic.); gradus testudinum (Plaut. Aul. 1 1 10): people who travel at a snail’s pace homines spissigradissimi tardiores quam corbitae sunt in tranquillo mari (Plaut. Poen. 3 1 4).
snail:
1. cochlĕa (coclea) f. (κοχλίας ὁ): Poet. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64, 133 (where we find the epithets, terrigena, herbigrada, domiporta): to be slower than a s., vincere c. tarditudine, Pl. Poen. 3, 1, 29: preserves of s.s (the Romans considering them a delicacy), cochlearum vivaria, Plin. 9, 56, 82, § 173: s.s without shells, c. nudae, id. 29, 6, 36, § 112: v.SLUGS . Dimin. cochleola, Hier. Ep. 64, No. 19: s.-formed (spiral), in cochleam, Cels. 8, 10, No. 1, med.: cochleatim, Sid. Ep. 4, 15, fin.: v. SPIRAL , SPIRALLY .
2. līmax, ācis, comm. (a s. without a shell): a s. in its shell, implicitus conchae l., poet. Col. 10, 324. In Plin. 19, 10, 57, § 177 (lactucis innascuntur limaces et cochleae), l. apparently = slugs, as opp. to s.s: v.SLUGS . A s.'s shell:
1. cochlĕa (rare in this sense): Mart. 11, 18, 23: cf. also, curvarum domus uda cochlearum, Stat. S. 4, 9, 33 (which, however, Forcell. understands of the tortoise). [Note.--Not cochlearium, which is a place where snails were kept and fed for eating, Varr. R. R. 3, 122, and ib. 3, 141.] Phr.: a s.'s pace, testudineus gradus (lit. tortoise's), Pl. Aul. 1, 1, 10: less precisely, incessus tardus, lentus: Cic.: s.-like men (i.e. with the pace of a s.), homines spissigradissimi, Pl. Poen. 3, 1, 3.
2. concha: v. supra.
1. cochlĕa (coclea) f. (κοχλίας ὁ): Poet. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64, 133 (where we find the epithets, terrigena, herbigrada, domiporta): to be slower than a s., vincere c. tarditudine, Pl. Poen. 3, 1, 29: preserves of s.s (the Romans considering them a delicacy), cochlearum vivaria, Plin. 9, 56, 82, § 173: s.s without shells, c. nudae, id. 29, 6, 36, § 112: v.
2. līmax, ācis, comm. (a s. without a shell): a s. in its shell, implicitus conchae l., poet. Col. 10, 324. In Plin. 19, 10, 57, § 177 (lactucis innascuntur limaces et cochleae), l. apparently = slugs, as opp. to s.s: v.
1. cochlĕa (rare in this sense): Mart. 11, 18, 23: cf. also, curvarum domus uda cochlearum, Stat. S. 4, 9, 33 (which, however, Forcell. understands of the tortoise). [Note.--Not cochlearium, which is a place where snails were kept and fed for eating, Varr. R. R. 3, 122, and ib. 3, 141.] Phr.: a s.'s pace, testudineus gradus (lit. tortoise's), Pl. Aul. 1, 1, 10: less precisely, incessus tardus, lentus: Cic.: s.-like men (
2. concha: v. supra.
appearing fewer than 50 times
γυμνοκοχλίαςsnail
κοχλίδιον
snail (dim.)
κοχλίον
a small snail
νηρείτης
sea-snails
νηριτοτρόφος
breeding sea-snails
πωματίας
a snail, which
σέσιλος
snail
σελάτης
snail
στράβηλος
snail