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lĭēn

lĭēn · m

the milt

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What it meant

1. lĭēn — Lewis & Short

lĭēn, ēnis, and liēnis, is, m. (

I gen. plur. lienum, Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 121) [for plien; Sanscr. plīhan; Gr. splh/n], the milt or spleen.

I Lit.: lienes turgent, Cato. R. R. 157: seditionem facit lien (of a stitch in the side), Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 14: jam quasi sona liene cinctus ambulo, id. Curc. 2, 1, 6: equisetum lienes cursorum exstinguit, Plin. 26, 13, 83, § 132: at lienis, ubi affectus est, intumescit, Cels. 4, 9: lienis bubulus, id. ib.: lienem coërcere, id. ib.: extenuare, id. ib.: consumere, Plin. 26, 8, 48, § 76.—

II Transf., of the fiscus: (Trajanus) fiscum lienem vocavit, quod eo crescente artus reliqui tabescunt, Aur. Vict. Epit. 42 fin.

2. lien — Walde–Hofmann

lien (liänis Cels.), inis m. ,Milz* £e im Nom. bezeugt von Prisc. 11 149, 7; Iién Plaut, durch IK. [nicht Synizese, Lindsay Early lat. verse 203], s. Sommer Hb.* 366, auch gegen Ansatz von urspr. *lién, was Bechtel CGN. 1899, 185ff., Postgate Cl. Qu. 11, 176, Meister EN. 24f. befürworten; seit Plaut, ebenso liznösus „milzsüchtig“, liönicus [nach splenicus] ds. Cael Aur): ai. plihén- m. „Milz®, av. sparezan- … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. lien, p. 831]

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