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thoracicula

thoracicula [thoracis+-cula], ~us, statue or other artistic representation of human form from (at least) the chest upwards. Colosus [vv. ll. add toraciclus, toracidus] Aldh. Aen. 72 tit.; toracidas [v. l. toraciclas; gl.: i. culturas, thoraciclas imagines, anclicnyssa] Id. VirgP 38, toracidas [vv. ll. toraciclas, thoraciclas; gl.: staturas, imagines] Ib. 60, toracidas [v. l. toracyclos] (Æthelwald) Carm. Aldh. 2. 171 (v. thoracis); thorociclas, scluptae [sic] imagines GlC T 148.

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