thread; leash or heddle (in weaving)
Latin word, found 22 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Eclogues 8.74: licia circumdo, terque haec altaria circum
Ovid, Amores 1.8.8: Licia, quid valeat virus amantis equae.
Petronius, Satyricon 131: … ens. Atque ut me consalutavit, “Quid est” inquit “fastose, ecquid bonam mentem habere coepisti?” Illa de sinu licium protulit varii coloris filis intortum cervicemque vinxit meam. Mox turbatum sputo pulverem medio sustulit dig …
All forms of licium