The corpus record — Latin

fĭdĭcŭlae

fĭdĭcŭlae · f

a small stringed instrument

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What it meant

fĭdĭcŭlae — Lewis & Short

fĭdĭcŭlae, ārum, and rarely fidicula, ae (syncop. fidicla, Prud. stef. 10, 481; 550), f.dim.2. fides,

I a small stringed instrument, a small lute or cithern.

I Lit.

A In gen.: quid si platani fidiculas ferrent numerose sonantes, Cic. N. D. 2, 8, 22. —

B Esp., Fidicula, a constellation, i. q. Fides or Lyra, the Lyre, Col. 11, 2, 37; Plin. 18, 26, 59, § 222.—

II Transf., a cord, line, a sort of instrument of torture (postAug.): apparatus illi reddendus est suus eculei et fidiculae et ergastula et cruces, Sen. de Ira, 3, 3; Suet. Tib. 62; id. Calig. 33; Cod. Th. 9, 35, 1.

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