cloacis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cloaca, cloacae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sewer, underground drain; maw of voracious person; privy (medieval);
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl.
Examples
Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quia ex planis locis haud facile euehebant aquas, cloacis fastigio in Tiberim ductis siccat, et aream ad aedem..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...munimenta madore infirmarentur; nam omnia oppidi stagnabant, redundantibus cloacis advorso aestu maris. Atque hiavit humus multa, vasta..."
