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spadix

spadix, date-brown, nutbrown, chestnut-brown

spādix, īcis, comm., = σπάδιξ.
  • Lit., a palm-branch broken off, together with its fruit; spadica Dorici vocant avulsum e paimā termitem cum fructu, Gell. 2, 26, 10; 3, 9, 9.—In the collat. form spādīcum: termites et spadica cernit assidua, Amm.24, 3, 12.—
  • II Transf. (as in Greek).
    • A Date-brown, nut-brown, chestnut-brown: rutilus et spadix phoenicei συνώνυμος, Geli. 2, 26, 9 sq.: honesti (equi) Spadices glaucique, Verg. G. 3, 82.—
    • B A kind of stringed instrument, condemned as effeminate by Quint. 1, 10, 31.

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