Significatio vocis harena | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. sand
   declension-1
2. slime, mud, līmus
   declension-1
3. sand, sands, a sandy place, especially—
   declension-1, metonymically
4. a sandy desert, waste
   declension-1, metonymically
5. the shore of the sea, the beach, coast, strand
   declension-1, metonymically
6. the place of combat (strewn with sand) in the amphitheatre, the arena
   declension-1, metonymically
7. a combat in the amphitheatre; the combatants in the arena
   declension-1, metonymically
8. volcanic fire, lava.
   declension-1, metonymically
9. the place of combat, scene or theatre of any contest (war, a single battle, a dispute, etc.)
   declension-1, figuratively

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Hī summō in flūctū pendent; hīs unda dēhīscēns”

Some [sailors] hang on a wave crest; for others the sea is gaping [and] the sea-bed is revealed between the waves; the surge churns with sand. (The ablative plural “harenis” is often translated here as singular. The description of the sailors’ experiences in the storm exemplifies hyperbole.)

“29, Virgil, Georgica, book IV, ed. by John E. Sheridan, London: Machen, published 1856, page 71, lines 287–294, notes from page 218: Nam qua Pellaei gens fortunata Canopi/ Accolit effuso stagnantem flumine Nilum/ Et circum pictis vehitur sua rura phaselis,/ Quaque pharetratae vicinia Persidis urget,/ [Et viridem Aegyptum nigrá fecundat arená,/ Et diversa ruens septem discurrit in ora/ Usque coloratis amnis devexus ab Indis,]/ Omnis in hac certam regio jacit arte salutem. For⟳ where the fortunate people of the Pellaean Canopus dwell close by the Nile, that swells into a lake with its inundating stream, and are carried round their farms in painted barges; and where the vicinity of the quiver-armed Parthia is contiguous, and the river rolling down all the way from the swarthy Indians separates, as it rushes along, into seven different branches, and fertilizes the verdant Egypt with its black slime; the entire region places implicit confidence in this art.”

Gradus CEFR