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strāges, is, f. [sterno, II. B.], a throwing down, throwing to the ground, overthrowing; an overthrow; confusion, confused heap or mass (cf.: acervus, strues; not freq. till after the Aug. per., esp. in Liv.; not in Cæs.).
- I. Lit.
- A. In gen.
- (α) With gen.: strage armorum saepta via est, Liv. 35, 30: nemorum, Sil. 3, 205: ruinae, Liv. 42, 63: minarum, id. 37, 32: aedificiorum et hominum, Tac. A. 1, 76: obstantis molis, id. H. 1, 86: rerum in trepidatione nocturna passim relictarum, Liv. 10, 34: boum hominumque, id. 41, 21: canum volucrumque aviumque boumque, Ov. M. 7, 536: exercituum, Val. Max. 6, 6, ext. 1.
- (β) Absol.: dabit ille (nimbus) ruinas Arboribus stragemque satis, Verg. A. 12, 454: atrox tempestas multis locis stragem fecit, Liv. 40, 2: strage ac ruinā fudere Gallos, id. 5, 43; cf. id. 4, 33.
- B. Pregn., a mortal overthrow; a defeat, slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage (syn.: caedes, clades): stragem horribilem caedemque vereri, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 20; so (with caedes) Tac. A. 14, 36; Just. 10, 3, 1; Val. Max. 5, 6, 5; cf.: quantas acies stragemque ciebunt! Verg. A. 6, 829: confusae stragis acervus, id. ib. 6, 504: complere strage campos, Liv. 7, 24.
In plur.: strages facere, Cic. Phil. 3, 12, 31: strages edere, id. Leg. 3, 9, 22; id. Att. 1, 16, 1; Verg. A. 9, 526; 9, 784; Just. 33, 2, 2; cf. also II.: cruentae, Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 132.
- * II. Trop., overthrow, ruin, destruction: quas ego pugnas et quantas strages edidi! Cic. Att. 1, 16, 1.
strāgŭlātus, a, um, adj., = stragulatas vestes, Vulg. Prov. 31, 22.
strāgŭlum, i, v. stragulus, II.
strāgŭlus, a, um, adj. [sterno, I.; v. the passages from Varr. L. L. 5, § 167 Müll. under II.], that serves for spreading or covering over any thing (viz., over a bed).
- I. Adj.: vestis, a covering, bedspread, coverlet, blanket, rug, carpet, etc., Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 133; 2, 4, 26; 2, 1, 10; 2, 2, 7; 2, 2, 72; Liv. 39, 6; 34, 7; Hor. S. 2, 3, 118 al.; Plin. 7, 51, 52, § 171; cf.: in strato omne vestimentum contineri, quod iniciatur, Labeo ait; neque enim dubium est, quin stragula vestis sit omne pallium, quod Graeci περίστρωμα vocant. In victu ergo vestem accipiemus, non stragula, in stratu omnem stragulam vestem, Dig. 50, 16, 45.
- II. As subst. freq.
- 1. strāgŭla, ae, f.
- a. A pall, a covering for a corpse, Petr. 78, 1.
- b. A horse-cloth, Dig. 34, 2, 25, § 3.
- 2. strāgŭlum, i, n., a spread, covering, rug, carpet, mattress, etc. (cf.: tapes, tapetum): hac (culcita) quicquid insternebant, a sternendo stragulum appellabant, Varr. L. L. 5, § 167 Müll.; cf. Sen. Ep. 87, 2.
Of a bed-covering, bedspread, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 61; Plin. 8, 58, 83, § 226; Tib. 1, 2, 79; Mart. 14, 147 al.
Of a covering for a corpse, Petr. 42, 6; Suet. Ner. 50.
Of a horse-cloth, blanket, housing: veredi, Mart. 14, 86, 1.
Of any thing soft put under brooding fowls, Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 100; Sol. 7, § 29.