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pāla, ae, f. [contr. from pagela, from pago, pango: pala a pangendo, Varr. L. L. 5, § 134 Müll.], a spade.

  1. I. Lit.: palas vendundas sibi ait … ut hortum fodiat, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 58: sarcula VIII., palas IV., Cato, R. R. 10, 3: palae innixus, Liv. 3, 26: juncosus ager verti pala debet, Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 46: palis laxatus, id. 17, 17, 27, § 123; Col. 10, 45.
  2. II. Transf.
    1. A. A peel for putting bread into the oven, Cato, R. R. 11 fin.
    2. B. A winnowing-shovel, Tert. Praescr. 3; so Juvenc. 1, 371.
    3. C. The bezel of a ring = funda: palam anuli ad palmam convertere, Cic. Off. 3, 9, 38.
    4. D. The shoulder-blade, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 35; id. Tard. 3, 2.
    5. E. An Indian tree, the plantain-tree: Musa Paradisiaca, Linn.; Plin. 12, 6, 12, § 24.

† pălē, ēs, f., = πάλη, a wrestling (in post-Aug. poets): unctā pale, Stat. Th. 6, 829: liquidam nodare (al. nudare) palen, id. Ach. 2, 441: jocos, palem, rudentem, Sid. Carm. 23, 302.

1. pālo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [1. palus], to support with pales, stakes, or props; to prop up: reliquae partes vinearum nunc palandae et alligandae sunt, Col. 11, 2, 16: ut vitis paletur, id. 11, 2, 16 fin.; Pall. 12, 15.

2. pālo, āre, 1, v. n., v. palor init.

pālor, ātus (gen. plur. part. palantūm, Sil. 5, 445), 1, v. dep. (act. collat. form pālo, āre, Sulp. Sat. 1, 43 Wernsd.; Poët. Lat. Min. 3, p. 90) [cf. Sanscr. pad, go; Gr. ποῦς, ποδός; Lat. pes], to wander up and down, to wander, wander about; to be dispersed, to straggle (not in Cic. or Cæs.; most freq. in part. pres.; syn.: vagor, erro).

  1. I. Lit.: palantes comites quom montes inter opacos Quaerimus et magna dispersos voce ciemus, Lucr. 4, 575; cf. id. 5, 973: vagi per agros palantur, Liv. 5, 44; cf.: vagi palantesque per agros, id. 21, 61, 2; Sall. J. 18, 2; 44, 5: agmen per agros palatur, Liv. 27, 47: palantes in agris oppressit, id. 1, 11: palantes extra castra, Tac. A. 1, 30: boves palati ab suis gregibus, Liv. 22, 17, 4: palatos aggressus, id. 35, 51: ex fugā palati, id. 8, 24; 3, 5: palantes error de tramite pellit, Hor. S. 2, 3, 49: terga dabant palantia Teucri, Verg. A. 12, 738: palantia sidera, Lucr. 2, 1031; so, palantesque polo stellas, Verg. A. 9, 21; Plin. 9, 35, 55, § 111: palanti amni (Nilo), Plin. Pan. 30, 3: insectari palantes hostes, Just. 15, 3, 11: palantia monstra, Val. Fl. 4, 506.
  2. II. Trop.: errare atque viam palantes quaerere vitae, Lucr. 2, 10: palantes homines passim ac rationis egentes, Ov. M. 15, 150.