(v. n.P. a.) : līvĕo, ēre, v. n.for pliveo; Gr. πελιός, πελλός, dark-blue; cf.: pullus, pallidus
* To be of a bluish color, black and blue, livid: livent rubigine dentes,Ov. M. 2, 776: livere catenis,Prop. 4 (5), 7, 65.
* Trop., to be envious, to envy (mostly poet. for invideo).
* Absol.: livet Carinus, rumpitur, furit, plorat,Mart. 8, 61, 1; Stat. Th. 11, 211.
* With dat., to envy: livere iis, qui eloquentiam exercent,Tac. A. 13, 42: qui mihi livet,Mart. 6, 86, 6; 11, 94, 1.—Hence, lī-vens, entis, P. a.
* Bluish, lead-colored, black and blue, livid: plumbum,Verg. A. 7, 687: pruna,Ov. M. 13, 817: crura compedibus,id. Am. 2, 2, 47: oculi in morte,Stat. Th. 1, 617: venenum,Sil. 2, 707.
* Envious: quid imprecabor, o Severe, liventi?Mart. 8, 61, 8.—Adv.: līventer, lividly, Paul. Petr. 4, 192.

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