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LNS

remora, remorae

re, mora

noun (f., 1^st declension)

delay, hinderance, passive resistance

Abbreviations

re-mora, ae, f., delay, hinderance, passive resistance (ante- and post-class.): quae Remoram faciunt rei privatae et publicae, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 16; cf. Lucil. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 276, 8 Mull.: remora si sit, if I delay, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 106: remorā ausus miserabiles casus levare multorum, Amm. 14, 5, 8 (but in Cels. 7, 15, the correct read. is mora).