jugulum

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Quod siquis dicat, Ergone populus tyrannicae crudelitati & furori jugulum semper praebebit?

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  1. In ornithology, the lower part of the throat; the fore part of the neck, between the gula and the pectus. See cut under bird.
  2. In entomology: A name proposed by Knoch and used by some writers to indicate the lower surface of the prothorax of a beetle
  3. A name given by Kirby to the basal piece on the lower side of an insect's head, now generally known as the gula.
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  • Quod siquis dicat, Ergone populus tyrannicae crudelitati & furori jugulum semper praebebit? —  Second Treatise of Government
  • I.p. 108, "per jugulum sinistrum capulotenus gladium totum ei demergit," and p. 110, "jugulo ejus vulnus dehiscit in patorem," The expression [Greek: nyktiphrourêtô thrasei] is well illustrated by the words of Nonnus, I.c. p. 64, 17. —  Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
  • Clarke translates the words ‘quod simul ac vidit, stricto Medea recludit Ense senis jugulum,’ ‘which as soon as Medea saw, she opens the throat of the old gentleman with a drawn sword.’] [Footnote 40: _And his hair. —  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
 

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  1. New Latin use of Latin jugulum, the throat: see jugular.
 

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