lacteus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lacteus, lactea, lacteum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
milky; milk-white; [~ orbis or circulus => Milky Way];
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
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..."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..."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..."