stripe (subs.) Copy link Outline I. A streak of a different colour from the ground1. līmes, ĭtis, m.2. virga (a coloured stripe in a garment)3. clāvus (a purple stripe on the tunica)II. The discoloured mark of a blow1. vībex, īcis, f.2. perh. verberum vulnera, ib.3. cĭcātrix, īcis, f.III. A blow (of a whip or lash)IV. As milit. t. t. • stripe (subs.): I. A streak of a different colour from the ground: 1. līmes, ĭtis, m.: a white s. marking a black ground, nigram materiam distinguente l. albo (of a line or vein in stone), Plin. 37, 10, 69, § 184. 2. virga (a coloured stripe in a garment): purple s.s, purpureae v., Ov. A. A. 3, 269. Also of a s. (or streak) in the heavens, Sen. Q. N. 1, 9 and 10. Cf. fascia in Juv. 14, 294 (nil color hic coeli, nil fascia nigra minatur). 3. clāvus (a purple stripe on the tunica): the broad s. (for the senators), latus c.: the narrow s. (for the equites), angustus c. (v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v. clavus, and Ant. p. 293). II. The discoloured mark of a blow: 1. vībex, īcis, f.: Plin. 30, 13, 39, § 118. 2. perh. verberum vulnera, ib. 3. cĭcātrix, īcis, f.: v. scar. III. A blow (of a whip or lash): verber, ĕris, n. (chiefly in plur.); he orders the young man to be stripped and s.s to be given, adolescentem nudari jubet verberaque afferri, Liv. 8, 28, med.: to torture an envoy with bonds and s.s, legatum vinculis ac verberibus excruciare, Cic. Manil. 5, 11: to beat with a rod one who has deserved to suffer severer s.s, ferula caedere meritum majora subire verbera, Hor. S. 1, 3, 120: v. also blow (subs.): stroke (subs.). Fig.: the s.s of fortune, fortunae v., Gell. 13, 27, fin. Phr.: one worthy of s.s, verbĕro, ōnis, m.: Cic. Att. 14, 6, 1: Plaut.: Ter.: cf. verbereum caput, Pl. Pers. 2, 2, 2: to inflict s.s, verberibus caedere, id. Most. 5, 2, 45: virgis aliquem caedere, Liv. 2, 5, ad fin. IV. As milit. t. t.: a badge of honour, segmentum (Quich.): but perh. better expr. by, insigne (or insignia) s. ornamentum honoris (based on Cic. Sull. 31, 88, insignia atque ornamenta honoris).