1. mĭnae — Lewis & Short
mĭnae, ārum, f.root min-, only in Lat.; cf.: mentum, minari, and perh. mons,
I 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:
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.