Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Nervus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

NER'VUS (νεύρον). The string of a musical instrument. Cic. Or. iii. 57.

2. A bow-string. Virg. Aen. x. 131. ix. 622.

3. A raw hide, with which shields were covered. Tac. Ann. ii. 14. Sil. Ital. iv. 291.

4. (ξυλοπέδη. Gloss. Philox.) A contrivance for confining slaves and criminals; which appears to have had a considerable resemblance to our stocks, being made of wood, or of iron, with holes through which the feet were inserted, and fastened with thongs. (Festus, s. v. Plaut. As. iii. 2. 5. XII. Leg. ap. Gell. xx. 1.) Hence frequently used for Carcer.