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offensācŭlum

offensācŭlum · n

a striking against

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What it meant

offensācŭlum — Lewis & Short

offensācŭlum, i, n.offenso,

I a striking against, a tripping, stumbling (postclass.).

I Lit.: crebris offensaculis contusa crura, App. M. 9, p. 221, 3.—

II Transf., the object against which one stumbles, a stumbling-block: lapis ecce nostro fixus offensaculo est, Prud. Apoth. 45; so, adversarius nostris offensacula pedibus latenter opponit, Lact. Opt. D. 1.

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