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WIRE
*filum tortum: *filum metallicum (wire of metal): *filum ferreum (iron wire). To draw wire *aes in fila ducere: wire work transenna (wire netting as it were for windows; grating of wire-work): reticulum (net of cat-gut; but also of wire; Festus in voc. Secespitam): net-work of brass wire reticulum aeneum: a wire string (of a musical instrument) *chorda metallica.
*filum tortum: *filum metallicum (wire of metal): *filum ferreum (iron wire). To draw wire *aes in fila ducere: wire work transenna (wire netting as it were for windows; grating of wire-work): reticulum (net of cat-gut; but also of wire; Festus in voc. Secespitam): net-work of brass wire reticulum aeneum: a wire string (of a musical instrument) *chorda metallica.
wire: *filum metallicum (Georg.): brass, iron, silver w., *filum aeneum, ferreum, argenteum. Phr.: to draw w., *metallum in fila ducere, tenuare: w.-work, w.-netting: perh. *transenna (a grating, a lattice: v. Dr. Smith's Lat. Dict.): I shall cleverly w. this fellow to-day, hunc ego hominem hodie in transennam doctis ducam dolis, Pl. Pers. 4, 3, 11: network of brass w., reticulum aeneum, Fest. s. v. secespitam: you dance like a puppet, but another pulls the w.s, duceris ut nervis alienis mobile lignum, Hor. S. 2, 7, 82.