brachia
- plural of brachium.
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Ever since, and long before, Cicero observed, in a letter to his brother Quintus, "Latiorem piscinam voluissem ubi jactata brachia non offenderentur," men who have taken the hot-air bath have loved the ample plunge.
From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen
And then he quotes with admiration Ovid’s line of the goddess of the seas: Nec brachia longo Margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by Morley, John