thōrax

I. the breast, chest, thorax.

I. Lit., in anatomy, Cels. 5, 25, 8; Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 49.—

II. Transf.

A. A defence, armor, or covering for the breast, a breastplate, corselet, cuirass; a doublet, stomacher (syn. lorica), Liv. 4, 20, 7; Suet. Aug. 82; Verg. A. 10, 337; Mart. 7, 1, 1.— Dat. thoracibus, Val. Fl. 3, 87.—Gen. thoracum, Claud. in Ruf. 2, 260.—

B. A bust, Treb. Claud. Goth. 3.