The corpus record — Latin

liro

liro · v. a

to plough

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Where it lives

Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k

What it meant

līro — Lewis & Short

līro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.lira,

I to plough or harrow in the seed.

I Lit.: terram cum primum arant, proscindere appellant: cum iterum, offringere dicunt: tertio cum arant jacto semine, lirare dicuntur, Varr. R. R. 1, 29, 2; cf.: haec (iteratio) quoque ubi consuetudo patitur, crate dentata, vel tabula aratro adnexa, quod vocant lirare, operiente semina, Plin. 18, 20, 49, § 180: lirantur una jugera quatuor, Col. 11, 2, 47.—*

B Transf., to scratch one's lips: alicui labias, Pompon. ap. Non. 18, 5.—*

II Trop., for delirare, to be mad, to rave: et si Pierias patitur lirare sorores, Aus. Ep. 10, 8.

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