hook (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. hāmus (esp. for catching fish)2. uncus (a large iron h.)3. lŭpus (a hooked engine of war) • hook (subs.): 1. hāmus (esp. for catching fish): to catch fish with a h., pisces hamo capere, Cic.: Hor.: Ov. Dimin. hamulus (a small h., esp. for surgical use): Cels.: a fishing-h., h. piscarius, Pl. St. 2, 2, 17. 2. uncus (a large iron h.): beams with an iron h. fastened at the end, asseres ferreo u. praefixo, Liv. 30, 10, fin.: used in dragging the corpses of criminals, Juv. 10, 66: Cic. 3. lŭpus (a hooked engine of war): Liv. 28, 3.
hook (v.) Copy link • hook (v.): expr. by hāmus and a verb: to h. a very large fish, *maximo pisci h. impingere: v. preced. art.
HOOK Copy link • HOOK 1. s. hamus (general term): uncus (such as was fixed under the chin of condemned persons when they were dragged to the Tiber; also, for surgical purposes; Cels.): fish-hook, hamus or hamus piscarius: to fish with a hook, [Vid: “to FISH with a rod “]: to throw in the hook, hamum demittere: to bite at the hook, hamum vorare: the fish swims to the hook, piscis decurrit ad hamum (Hor., Ep., 1, 4, 74). 2. v. inuncare aliquid or aliquem (to attack with hooks; e.g., a lamb with claws; Apul., Flor., p. 341, 9); uncum impingere or infigere alicui (to fix a hook in anybody’s body, in order to drag him along, as was done at Rome to criminals; Vid: Cic., Phil., 1, 2, 5; Ov., in lb., 166).