anguilla
Dictionary entries
- Entry →anguilla, anguillae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
eel; hard skin of an eel used as a whip in school; slippery fellow;
abl. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
Satura V
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...carcere pinnas, contemnunt mediam temeraria lina Charybdim: uos anguilla manet longae cognata colubrae aut ~glacie aspersus~ maculis Tiberinus..."Liber XII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Iani mense nec alget holus, Quaeque natat clusis anguilla domestica lymphis, Quaeque gerit similes candida turris aves, Munera..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...pisces in illo terrarum profundo sit indicium, quod anguillae latebrosis locis nascuntur, grauis et ipsae cibus ob ignauiam..."