sagitta

săgitta, ae, f. [root sagh-; v. sagio].

I.

An arrow, shaft, bolt (freq. in prose and poetry; cf.:

telum, jaculum): cum arcum mihi et pharetram et sagittas sumpsero,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 99:

confige sagittis fures thesaurarios,

id. Aul. 2, 8, 25; Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89; id. N. D. 2, 50, 126 al.:

missiles,

Hor. C. 3, 6, 16:

celeres,

id. ib. 3, 20, 9 et saep.:

sagittā Cupido cor meum transfixit,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 25; Lucr. 4, 1278; Tib. 2, 1, 81; Hor. C. 2, 8, 15; 1, 27, 12:

sagittam conicere,

Verg. A. 4, 69:

nervo aptare sagittas,

id. ib. 10, 131; Ov. M. 8, 380:

savii sagittis per cussus est,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 16 (but the better reading is: ejus saviis perculsus).—

II.

Meton., of things of a like form.

A.

The extreme thin part of a vine-branch or shoot, Col. 3, 10, 22; 3, 17, 2; Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 156. —

B.

The herb arrow-head, Plin. 21, 17, 68, § 111.—

C.

In late Lat., an instrument for letting blood, a lancet, Veg. 1, 22, 4; 1, 25, [p. 1617] 5; 1, 43, 3, etc.—

D.

Sagitta, a constellation, the Arrow, Hyg. Astr. 2, 15; 3, 14; Cic. Arat. 382; Col. 11, 2, 21; Plin. 17, 18, 30, § 131; 18, 31, 74, § 309.