lacteus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lacteus, lactea, lacteum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
milky; milk-white; [~ orbis or circulus => Milky Way];
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
- T
Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...pinguis per pabula laeta corpora deponunt et candens lacteus umor uberibus manat distentis, hinc nova proles artubus infirmis..." - P
Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...sunt quae mitescere flamma mollirique queant; nec vobis lacteus umor eripitur, nec mella thymi redolentia florem: prodiga divitias..." - P
Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...nomen) materna rigescere sentit ubera; nec sequitur ducentem lacteus umor. spectatrix aderam fati crudelis, opemque non poteram tibi..."