culice
Dictionary entries
- Entry →culex, culicis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Field:
- Agriculture
gnat, midge, similar insect; (poem by Virgil); moving spots before eyes (pl.);; plant (unidentified);
abl. sg.dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
- T
Curculio
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...lenonium inter homines meo quidem animo ut muscae, culices, cimices pedesque pulicesque: odio et malo et molestiae, bono..." - T
Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...priva pedum vestigia quaeque, corpore quae in nostro culices et cetera ponunt. usque adeo prius est in nobis..." - Q
Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...exigitur, dum mula ligatur, tota abit hora. mali culices ranaeque palustres avertunt somnos; absentem cantat amicam multa prolutus..."