vomicas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →vomica, vomicae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
abscess, boil, gathering of pus; gathering of fluid found in minerals;
acc. pl.
Examples
Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...possum tibi ostendere: in pectore ipso collectio et vomica est. Nolo nolo laudes, nolo dicas, 'o magnum virum..."De rhetoribus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)
"...pene poenas luit. Iam autem senior ob vitium vomicae Novariam rediit, convocataque plebe causis, propter quas mori destinasset..."Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...probem illud quoque veteris oratoris: "persecuisti rei publicae vomicas". Optimeque Cicero demonstrat cavendum ne sit deformis tralatio, qualis..."