embŏlĭum — Lewis & Short
embŏlĭum, ii, n., = e)mbo/lion,
I something thrown in; in scenic lang., an interlude, ballet, Cic. Sest. 54, 116 (embolia pertinent ad gestus saltatorios, Schol.).
The corpus record — Latin
embolium
embolium · n
something thrown in
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Where it lives
- Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
- Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
- De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- embolium Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 3.1.24
- embolia Cicero, Pro P. Sestio 116
- emboli Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.7.3
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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