mammi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →mammon, mammis:
Masculine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- Age:
- Later
- Field:
- Religion
riches, wealth; (gain of wickedness, quasi-personification of covetousness OED);
abl. sg.dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...poteram tuo carere et collo manibusque cruribusque et mammis natibusque clunibusque, et, ne singula persequi laborem, tota..."- P
Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...natam in dumis interque horrentia lustra armentalis equae mammis et lacte ferino nutribat teneris immulgens ubera labris. utque..." - P
Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...spumauerit ubere mulctra, laeta magis pressis manabunt flumina mammis. nec minus interea barbas incanaque menta Cinyphii tondent hirci..."
