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minae

minae, threats, menaces; projecting points, pinnacles

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minae Clodii modice me tangunt
the threats of Clodius touch me very little

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

minae , ārum, f.: the projecting parts; points, pinnacles, battlements, 4.88; threats, menaces, 4.44; perils, 6.113; curses, 3.265. (cf. -mineō in immineō, etc.)
mĭnae, ārum, f. [root min-, only in Lat.; cf.: mentum, minari, and perh. mons], the projecting points or pinnacles of walls (only poet.).
  • I Lit.: minae murorum, Verg. A. 4, 88: moenium, Amm.24, 2, 12; 24, 2, 19; 29, 6, 11; 20, 6, 2.—
  • II Trop., threats, menaces, of animate and inanimate things (class.).
    • A Of living beings: si quidem hercle Aeacidinis minis animisque expletus cedit, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 25 (405): virtutem hominibus instituendo et persuadendo, non minis et vi ac metu tradi, Cic. de Or. 1, 58, 247: terrēre minis, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 301 Müll. (Ann. v. 261): minas jactare, to throw out threats, Cic. Quint. 14, 47: intendere alicui, Tac. A. 3, 36. —Of the threats used by cattle-drivers, Ov. P. 1, 8, 56.—Poet., of a bull: nullae in fronte minae, Ov. M. 2, 857; of a snake: tol lentemque minas, raising threats, i.e. raising himself in a threatening posture, Verg. G. 3, 421.—
    • B Of inanimate things (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): aspice, quam saevas increpat aura minas, Prop. 1, 17, 6: hibernae, Tib. 2, 3, 46: ingentes parturit ira minas, Ov. H. 12, 208: caelestes minae territabant, Flor. 2, 8, 3; forebodings of misfortune, Val. Fl. 5, 342.

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