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sĭnistĕr
adjective I class

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1 left, on the left
2 (in Rome) favourable, auspicious, lucky, because in Roman augury the augur faced south, having the East on the left
3 (in Greece) unfavourable, inauspicious, unlucky
4 wrong, perverse, improper, because in Greek augury the augur faced north, having the East on his right

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a sinistro cornu = from the left flank || ala sinistra || avi sinistra || sinistra ala or sinistrum cornu || e cantu sinistro oscinis || caput sinistra manu perfricans || aliquid secundis sinistris auribus accipio || arboribusque satisque Notus pecorique sinister || acies Pompeiana a sinistra parte (erat) circumita = the array of Pompeius (was) surrounded from the left flank || armis abiectis totum sinistrum cornu defugit || aegre insisto dolore digitorum in sinistro pede || ab sinistro cornu omnis multitudo sagittariorum se profudit = the whole group of archers poured out from the left flank || cetera instituta, sinistra foeda, pravitate valuere (= valuerunt) || ea frons, quam Hispani tenebant, cum sinistro Romanorum cornu concurrit || C. Manlium in dextra, Faesulanum quendam in sinistra parte curare iubet || Caesar, superius institutum servans decimam legionem in dextro cornu, nonam in sinistro collocaverat