• SHOULDER

1. s. humerus (of men): armus (in old Latin and the poets denotes the upper arm with the shoulder, but in classical prose it is used only of animals). Shoulder-blade, scapula (usually plur., scapulae): shoulder-bone, os humeri; plur., scoptula, -orum, nominative plur., (Cels., 8, 1; but ed. Almel. reads scutula). Soulder of mutton, *armus vervecinus: broad over the shoulders, latus ab humeris: to carry on the shoulders, humeris portare or gestare (PROP.); humeris gestare (PROP. and figuratively; e.g., universam rempublicam): to carry burdens on the shoulders, onera humeris portare (general term); bajulare (as a porter): to take anybody on one’s shoulders, aliquem in humeros suos efferre (in order to raise him up so as to show him to others); aliquem humeris sublevare (in order to carry him when weary): to take anything upon one’s shoulders, tollere aliquid in humeros (PROP.); suscipere or recipere aliquid (to take anything upon one’s self; recipere with the accessory notion of being responsible for it): he was turned out neck and shoulders, foras deturbatus est (Plaut.); turpiter ejectus est (Ov.). These burdens are removed from the shoulders of the poor to those of the rich, haec onera in dites a pauperibus inclinata sunt.

2. v. aliquid in humeros tollere. To shoulder a gun, *sclopetum humero acclinare.