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fĕmur , ŏris or ĭnis (acc. to a nom. ‡ femen, mentioned only by Prisc. p. 701 P. and Serv. Verg. A. 10, 344; 778; nom. femus, Ap. M. 8, p. 216, 15; cf.: μῆρος, femus, Gloss. Lab.; dat. femori; femini only Plin. 28, 15, 61, § 217; abl. usually femore, but femine, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 48; Verg. A. 10, 788; plur. femora or femina; dat. feminibus, rarely femoribus), n. etym. dub.; cf. root feo of femina, etc.,

I.the upper part of the thigh, the thigh.

I. Lit.: “ima spina in coxarum osse desinit, etc. ... inde femina oriuntur,” Cels. 8, 1 med.: “frons non percussa, non femur,” Cic. Brut. 80, 278: “ferit femur dextrum dextra,” Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 50: “femur caedere,” Quint. 2, 12, 10: “ferire,” id. 11, 3, 123; cf.: “feminis plangore et capitis ictu uti,” Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27; Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 99; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 93: “transfixus femore et umero,” Suet. Caes. 68; id. Aug. 80: “nocet femori conseruisse femur,” Tib. 1, 8, 26: “et corpus quaerens femorum crurumque pedumque,” Ov. M. 14, 64: “teretes stipites feminis crassitudine,” Caes. B. G. 7, 73, 6: “ocius ensem eripit a femine,” Verg. A. 10, 788: “galli feminibus pilosis, cruribus brevibus,” Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 5.—

II. Transf.

A. In architecture, the space between the grooves of a triglyph, Vitr. 4, 3.—

B. Femur bubulum, a plant otherwise unknown, Plin. 27, 9, 56, § 81.—

C. Esp., like lumbi, the loins, of ancestry (Eccl. Lat.): “de femore Jacob,” Vulg. Ex. 1, 5; id. Gen. 46, 26.

A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (15):
- Caesar, Gallic War, 7.73.6
- Cicero, Against Verres, 2.4.93
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.64
- Vergil, Aeneid, 10.788
- Old Testament, Genesis, 46.26
- Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 80
- Vitruvius, On Architecture, 4.3
- Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 2.2
- Suetonius, Divus Julius, 68
- Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 27.81
- A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 8.1
- Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 1.35
- Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 12.10
- Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 3.123
- Cicero, Brutus, 80.278

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