(adjective) : ex-sanguis (exang-), e
* Deprived of blood, without blood, bloodless (class.).
* Lit.: unde animantum copia tanta Exos et exsanguis,Lucr. 3, 721: jacens et concisus plurimis vulneribus, extremo spiritu exsanguis et confectus,Cic. Sest. 37, 79; cf.: exsanguis et mortuus concidisti,id. Pis. 36, 88: hostes enervati atque exsangues,id. Sest. 10, 24: exsanguia corpora mortuorum,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 49, § 130: umbrae,Verg. A. 6, 401.
* Transf., pale, wan: genae, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 12, 26: exsanguis metu,Ov. M. 9, 224; cf.: diffugimus visu exsangues,Verg. A. 2, 212: herbae,Ov. M. 4, 267.—Act.: cuminum,making pale,Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 18 (cf.: cuminum omne pallorem bibentibus gignit,Plin. 20, 14, 57, § 159): horror,Claud. in Ruf. 2, 130.
* Trop., powerless, feeble, weak: aridum et exsangue orationis genus,Auct. Her. 4, 11, 16; cf.: exsanguis et attritus,Tac. Or. 18: vox nimis exilis et exsanguis,Gell. 13, 20, 5: exsangues crudescunt luctibus anni (senectutis),Stat. Th. 11, 323: imperium,id. ib. 5, 325.

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