(adjective) : lippus, a, um, Sanscr. lip, to smear; Gr. λίπα, λίπος, fat; ἄλειφα, salve; whence adeps
* Blear-eyed, bleared, inflamed.
* Lit.: num tibi lippus videor,Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 21: (matrem) cubare in navi lippam atque oculis turgidis,id. ib. 4, 3, 15 lippi illic oculi seruos est simillimus, id. Bacch. 4, 8, 72; id. Pers. 1, 1, 11; Vitr. 8, 4, 4: non tamen idcirco contemnas lippus inungi,Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 29; cf.: lippus Illinere,id. S. 1, 5, 30.—Prov.: omnibus et lippis notum et tonsoribus,i. e. to everybody,Hor. S. 1, 7, 3.
* Transf.
* Trop., blind to one's own faults: vappa et lippus,Pers. 5, 76; cf. Hor. S. 1, 3, 25.
* Dropping, running: lippa sub attrita fronte lacuna putet, of an empty eye-socket,Mart. 8, 59, 2: ficus,an over-ripe fig, dropping with juice,id. 7, 20, 12.

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