Significatio vocis iugum | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. a yoke (for oxen or cattle) or collar (for a horse)
   declension-2, neuter
2. a yoke, pair, team of draft oxen; a pair of horses; a chariot
   declension-2, neuter
3. a pair of anything
   declension-2, neuter
4. a juger of land
   declension-2, neuter
5. in Kent, a yoke of land, quarter sulung
   declension-2, neuter
6. a horizontal beam or rail fastened perpendicular to a post or pole; a crossbeam, crossrail
   declension-2, neuter
7. any of various types of horizontal structural member: the beam which united the upright posts of a loom, the crossbar of a lyre, the crossrail of a trellis, the thwart or cross-bench of a boat (the rower's bench)
   declension-2, neuter
8. a symbolic yoke of subjugation: a low makeshift archway of three spears under which a vanquished enemy was made to bend in humiliation as they passed by
   declension-2, neuter
9. a scalebeam; (metonymic) a pair of scales; (astronomy) the Libra
   declension-2, neuter
10. the summit or ridge of a mountain; a chain or range of mountains
    declension-2, neuter
11. the bond (of slavery, matrimony, etc.)
    declension-2, figuratively, neuter

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Exempla

“Nos onera quibusdam bestiis, nos iuga inponimus; […]”

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“inde premēns stīvam dēsignat moenia sulcō; alba iugum niveō cum bove vacca tulit From there, pressing the plow handle, he marks out the city walls with a furrow; a white cow with a snow-white bull bore the yoke. (Romulus uses a plow to mark where the defensive walls of Rome are to be built. The flexibility of Latin word order allows Ovid to join bove vacca – ‘‘bull cow’’ – side-by-side, just as the two animals themselves would have been yoked for⟳ plowing.)”

“Quod addit asinos, qui stercus vectent, treis, asinum molarium; in vinea iugerum iugum boum, asinorum iugum, asinum molarium; […]”

As to his addition of three donkeys to haul manure and one for the mill; for a vineyard of 100 jugera, a yoke of oxen, a pair of donkeys, and one for the mill; […]

“Lucage, nulla tuos currus fuga segnis equorum prodidit aut uanae uertere ex hostibus umbrae: ipse rotis saliens iuga deseris.”

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“ex eo notatum, non fere legionis umquam hiberna esse castra ubi aquilarum non sit iugum.”

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“Ille, Modos, quibus metirentur rura, alius alios constituit. Nam in Hispania ulteriore metiuntur iugis, in Campania versibus, apud nos in agro Romano ac Latino⟳ iugeris. Iugum vocant, quod iuncti boves uno die exarare possint.”

Each country has its own method of measuring land. Thus in farther Spain the unit of measure is the iugum, in Campania the versus, with us here in the district of Rome and in Latium the iugerum. The iugum is the amount of land which a yoke of oxen can plough in a day.)

“Tertius vineae annus palmitem velocem robustumque emittit et quem faciat aetas vitem. hic in iugum insilit.”

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“[…]: tela iugo⟳ vincta est, stamen secernit harundo, […]”

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“inde alias animas, quae per iuga longa sedebant, deturbat laxatque foros; simul accipit alueo ingentem Aenean.”

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“Caesar, quod memoriā tenēbat L. Cassium cōnsulem occīsum exercitumque ēius ab Helvētiīs pulsum et sub iugum mīssum, concēdendum nōn putābat […] .”

Because Caesar remembered that the consul Lucius Cassius had been killed and his army routed and sent under the yoke by the Helvetians, he did not think their request should be granted.

“L. quidem Tarutius Firmanus, familiaris noster, in primis Chaldaeicis rationibus eruditus, urbis etiam nostrae natalem diem repetebat ab iis Pardibus, quibus eam a Romulo conditam accepimus, Romamque, in iugo⟳ cum esset Luna, natam esse dicebat, nec eius fata canere dubitabat.”

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“Eius vero⟳ montis iugum se circumagens et media curvatura prope tangens oras maris Hadriani pertingit circumitionibus contra fretum.”

The ridge of this mountain range then bends in an arch and almost reaches the middle part of the Adriatic coast, while, completing the arch, it ends up touching the Strait (of Messina).

“Iamne ea fert iugum?”

Does she as yet bear the yoke? (i.e. does she bear the yoke of matrimony; is she married?)

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