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
- L
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..." - G
De rhetoribus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)
"...pene poenas luit. Iam autem senior ob vitium vomicae Novariam rediit, convocataque plebe causis, propter quas mori destinasset..." - M
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..."