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arcĭfīnālis, e, or arcĭfīnĭus, a, um, adj. [arceo-finis]; among surveyors, agri, lands received in possession and built upon by victors after expelling the previous owners (whence the term), Sic. Fl. p. 3; Front. p. 38; Hyg Lim. p. 160. Defined otherwise by Isid. Orig. 15, 13.

arcīon, i, n., = ἀρκεῖον, a plant (in pure Lat., persollata), Plin. 25, 9, 66, § 113.

* Arcĭ-pŏtens, entis, adj. [arcus], skilful with the bow, a skilful archer, an epithet of Apollo, Val. Fl. 5, 17.

arcirma (this is the correct read., not arcŭma), ae, f. [arcera], a kind of small carriage, Paul. ex Fest. p. 15 Müll.; v. Müll. ad h. l.

Arcĭ-tĕnens (in MSS. also arquĭtĕ-nens, like arquus for arcus, quur for cur, etc.), entis, adj. [arcus-teneo], carrying a bow, bow-bearing, in imitation of the Gr. Τοζοφόρος.

  1. I. A poet. epithet of Apollo and of Diana; of Apollo, Naev. Bell. Pun. ap. Macr. S. 6, 5 (p. 14 Vahl.); Ov. M. 1, 441 (cf. Hor. C. S. 61: Phoebus fulgente decorus arcu); id. ib. 6, 265: pius Arcitenens, Verg. A. 3, 75 (Apollinem dicit, Serv.): Arquitenens dea, Att. ap. Non. p. 341, 25: Arquitenentes Diana et Apollo, Arn. 1, p. 20.
  2. II. As a constellation, the Archer, Cic. Arat. Phaen. 405 B. and K.