(verb) : lactĕo, ēre (used almost exclusively in the
* Part. pres.), lac.
* To suck milk, to be a suckling: Romulus parvus atque lactens, uberibus lupinis inhians,Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 19; so, lactens Juppiter puer,id. Div. 2, 41, 85: vitulus,Ov. M. 2, 624; 10, 227: lactens hostia,Cic. Leg. 2, 12, 29; also absol.: lactentibus rem divinam facere,Liv. 37, 3.— Poet.: viscera lactentia,i. e. sucking children, sucklings,Ov. F. 6, 137.—Of the spring: tener et lactens (sc. annus),Ov. M. 15, 201.
* To contain milk or sap, to be milky, sappy, juicy: verno tempore, cum lactent novella virentia,Pall. 3, 26; cf.: nam sata, vere novo, teneris lactentia sucis,Ov. F. 1, 351: frumenta in viridi stipula lactentia turgent,Verg. G. 1, 315: lactuca lactens,Plin. 20, 7, 26, § 67.—Subst.: lactentĭa, ium, n., milk-food, milk-dishes, Cels. 2, 28.

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