aesculus

Definitiones

the tallest species of oak, the winter oak or Italian oak (with edible acorns), sacred to Jupiter

declension-2, feminine

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“ut inter Sacram Viam et Macellum editum Corneta ⟨a cornis⟩, quae abscisae loco⟳ reliquerunt nomen, ut Aesculetum ab aesculo dictum”

...just as between the Sacred Way and I he higher part of the Macellum are the Corneta 'Cornel-Cherry Groves,' from corni 'cornel-cherry trees,' which though cut away left their name to the place; just as the Aesculetum 'Oak-Grove' is named from aesculus 'oak-tree'...

“Hic iuvenum quicumque manu pedibusve rotave vicerat, aesculeae capiebat frondis honorem: nondum laurus erat, longoque decentia crine”

In these the happy youth who proved victorious in the chariot race, running and boxing, with an honoured crown of oak leaves was enwreathed. The laurel then was not created, wherefore Phoebus, bright and godlike, beauteous with his flowing hair, was wont to wreathe his brows with various leaves.

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