Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Vitis

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. 

VI'TIS. Literally, a vine; thence, the branch of a vine, cut into a stick or baton, which the Roman centurions employed for punishing any of the men who had neglected their military duties. (Plin. H. N. xiv. 3. Ov. A. Am. iii. 527. Juv. viii. 247.) The illustration (Vitis/1.1) represents a centurion with the vitis in his right hand, from a bas-relief. Compare the wood-cut s. EVOCATI.

2. Same as VINEA. Lucil. Sat. p. 89. 69. ed. Gerlach. ex Fest. Sub vitem praeliarii.

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