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lividus
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Lewis Short
(adjective) : līvĭdus, a, um, liveo
* Of a blue or leaden color, bluish, blue.
* Lit.: vada,Verg. A. 6, 320: lividissima vorago,Cat. 17, 11: racemi,Hor. C. 2, 5, 10.
* Esp., produced by beating, bruising, etc., black and blue, livid: livida armis Bracchia,Hor. C. 1, 8, 10: ora livida facta,Ov. H. 20, 82; Plin. 24, 11, 55, § 93.
* Trop., envious, invidious, spiteful, malicious.
* Of persons: invidi et malevoli et lividi,Cic. Tusc. 4, 12, 28 (dub.): nos nostraque lividus odit,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 89.
* Of inanim. and abstr. things: lingua,Ov. F. 1, 74: obliviones (because forgetfulness robs the deserving of the praise which is his due),Hor. C. 4, 9, 33: sententia,spiteful, malicious,Sen. Contr. 2, 14.—Hence, līvĭdē, adv., of a leaden color, lividly.—Comp., Plin. 37, 7, 25, § 94 dub.
* Of a blue or leaden color, bluish, blue.
* Lit.: vada,Verg. A. 6, 320: lividissima vorago,Cat. 17, 11: racemi,Hor. C. 2, 5, 10.
* Esp., produced by beating, bruising, etc., black and blue, livid: livida armis Bracchia,Hor. C. 1, 8, 10: ora livida facta,Ov. H. 20, 82; Plin. 24, 11, 55, § 93.
* Trop., envious, invidious, spiteful, malicious.
* Of persons: invidi et malevoli et lividi,Cic. Tusc. 4, 12, 28 (dub.): nos nostraque lividus odit,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 89.
* Of inanim. and abstr. things: lingua,Ov. F. 1, 74: obliviones (because forgetfulness robs the deserving of the praise which is his due),Hor. C. 4, 9, 33: sententia,spiteful, malicious,Sen. Contr. 2, 14.—Hence, līvĭdē, adv., of a leaden color, lividly.—Comp., Plin. 37, 7, 25, § 94 dub.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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