hiulcas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →hiulcus, hiulca, hiulcum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
gaping, having the mouth wide open, insatiable, greedy; cracked; disconnected;
acc. pl. (f.)
Examples
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Trinummus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...rapax avarus invidus sacrum profanum, publicum privatum habent, hiulca gens. haec ego doleo, haec sunt quae me excruciant..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...omnia verba suo fine cludantur, et nonnumquam hiulca etiam decent faciuntque ampliora quaedam, ut "pulchra oratione +acta oratio..." 
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...desertae gurgite ualles et patris undosi sonitus expectat hiulca Aegyptos, donec Phariis alimenta rogatus donet agris magnumque inducat..."- P
Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...urgerent: hoc effusos munimen ad imbris, hoc, ubi hiulca siti findit Canis aestifer arua. Seminibus positis superest diducere..."