lumbum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lumbus, lumbi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
loins; loins as the seat of sexual excitement;
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
- D
Satura VIII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...quantumuis mollior agna, si tenerum attritus Catinensi pumice lumbum squalentis traducit auos emptorque ueneni frangenda miseram funestat imagine..." Liber VII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...diebus noctibusque captauit, ter poscit apri glandulas, quater lumbum, et utramque coxam leporis et duos armos, nec erubescit..."