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1876, Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion:
An analysis of the determined cases shows that the index was the digit most frequently amputated, next the medius, next the ring finger, next the thumb, and lastly the little finger
1945, Charlotte Wolff, A Psychology of Gesture:
There is an interesting abnormality in finger length, the medius being especially long[…]
“medius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“medius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
medius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
medius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
the temperate zone: orbis medius
to rush into the midst of the foe: in medios hostes se inicere
to break through the enemy's centre: per medios hostes (mediam hostium aciem) perrumpere
(ambiguous) the Mediterranean Sea: mare medium or internum
(ambiguous) the middle ages: media quae vocatur aetas
(ambiguous) to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things): foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare
(ambiguous) elevated, moderate, plain style: genus dicendi grave or grande, medium, tenue (cf. Or. 5. 20; 6. 21)
(ambiguous) to bring a subject forward into discussion: in medium proferre aliquid
(ambiguous) to break off in the middle of the conversation: medium sermonem abrumpere (Verg. Aen. 4. 388)
(ambiguous) to be neutral: medium esse
(ambiguous) to be neutral: medium se gerere
(ambiguous) the centre of the marching column: agmen medium (Liv. 10. 41)
(ambiguous) the centre: media acies
“medius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray