Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A heavy two-wheeled cart used by the ancient Romans.
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Examples
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Lucan V 23 'Hyperboreae plaustrum glaciale sub Vrsae'.
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It was easy, I say, to see, that with such an additional number of passengers, the domestic plaustrum would sink deeper and deeper in the miry ways of the world.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
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Other mentions of the constellation at _Met_ X 446-47 'inter ... triones/flexerat obliquo plaustrum temone Bootes', _Tr_ III iv b 1-2 (47-48), III x 3-4 &
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[769] Probably the emperor had not entirely worn off, or might even affect the rustic dialect of his Sabine countrymen; for among the peasantry the au was still pronounced o, as in plostrum for plaustrum, a waggon; and in orum for aurum, gold, etc.
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'Vendat boves vetulos, plaustrum vetus, ferramenta vetera, servum senem, servum morbosum, & si quid aliud supersit vendat.'
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` Vendat boves vetulos, plaustrum vetus, ferramenta vetera, servum senem, servum morbosum, & si quid aliud supersit vendat. '
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DEVS BONE: Hoc conuiciorum plaustrum (paucissima namque attigimus: Nolui enim laterem lauare, et stulto, vt inquit ille sapientissimus, secundum stultitiam suam respondere, cum in ipsius Rhythmis verbum non sit quod conuicio careat) qui viderit, nonne iudicabit pasquilli istius autorem hominem fuisse pessimum, imò fæcem hominum, cum virtutis ac veritatis contemptorem, sine pietate, sine humanitate?
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01
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DEVS BONE: Hoc conuiciorum plaustrum (paucissima namque attigimus:
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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DEVS BONE: Hoc conuiciorum plaustrum (paucissima namque attigimus:
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"A Negress, apparently a princess, arrives at Thebes, drawn in a plaustrum by a pair of humped oxen, the driver and groom being red-colored Egyptians, and, one might almost infer, eunuchs.
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