WING Copy link • WINGPROP., ala. Wings, alae; pennae (alae is used also of insects; pennae only of birds; according to Quint., 1, 4, 12, pinnae for pennae is wrong): to have wings, alatum esse (poetical, PROP.); volare (figuratively, of time): to clip the wings, pennas alicui incidere (PROP. and figuratively; Cic., Att., 4, 2, 5): to clip his wings, alas intervellere (i. e., pluck some of the feathers out; IMPROP.; Plaut.): the wings grow again, pennae renascuntur (PROP. and figuratively). Figuratively, (a) Of an army, cornu (a wing of the main army of the Roman legions): ala (one of the wings of the cavalry and allies which extended beyond the Roman legions; Vid: Gell., 16, 4): The troops which formed the wings, alarii; so, also, alariae cohortes (Vid: commentators on Caes., B.G., 1, 51): to be in the right wing, to form the right wing, dextrum cornu tenere; in dextro cornu consistere: to attack the left wing, invadere sinistrum cornu. (b) A side building of a house, tectum quod est viae junctum (a building projecting from the main building toward the street, Gell., 16, 5): ala (one of the walks or halls on the right or left side of the court in a Roman house, Vitr. 4, 7, 2; 63, 4, sq.). To build another wing (to a building), accessionem adjungere aedibus. (c) Of a door, foris: valva (rarely in the sing.).