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nūbes | nūbis, is (noun F.m) : f. (ante-class. collat. form, , , m.:
* Nubis ater,Plaut. Merc. 5 2, 38: nubs for nubes, Liv. Andron. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 10, 636; cf. Aus. Idyll. de Monosyll. Hist. 12, 4) [Sanscr. nabhas, vapor, cloud; Gr. νέφος, νεφέλη; Lat. nubilus, nebula; cf. nimbus, nubo], a cloud.
* Lit.: aër concretus in nubes cogitur,Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101: id. Ac. 2, 22, 70: atra nubes Condidit lunam,Hor. C. 2, 16, 2: candida,Vulg. Apoc. 14, 14: aestivis effusus nubibus imber,Verg. G. 4, 312; Ov. M. 8, 339: venti nubes abigunt,Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 126: nube deprendere volucrem jaculis,to bring down a bird from the sky,Sil. 16, 566: usque ad nubes,up to heaven,Vulg. Psa. 35, 6; id. Jer. 51, 9.— Poet.: Sabaeae nubes,the smoke of frankincense,Stat. S. 4, 8, 2.
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* A cloud, thick multitude, dense mass, swarm: locustarum tantae nubes,Liv. 42, 10, 7: Pomptinum velut nubibus locustarum coopertum,id. 42, 2, 4: levium telorum,id. 38, 26: obruti velut nube jaculorum a Balearibus conjectā,id. 21, 55, 6: peditum equitumque,id. 35, 49: (volucrum),Verg. A. 12, 254: nigro glomeratur pulvere nubes,id. ib. 9, 33: muscarum,Plin. 29, 6, 34, § 106: pulveris,Curt. 4, 15, 32: (volucrum) nubem sonoram,Juv. 13, 167: farrea nubes, i. e. porrigo capitis, furfures,Ser. Samm. 3, 34: nubes testium,Vulg. Hebr. 12, 1.
* A cloud, for something unreal or unsubstantial, a phantom: nubes et inania captare,Hor. A. P. 230.
* Cloudiness, of a gloomy countenance, of sleep, of drunkenness, of blindness (poet.): deme supercilio nubem,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 94; Sil. 8, 612: meri,Val. Fl. 3, 65: soporis,Stat. Achill. 1, 646: mortis,id. S. 4, 6, 72: frontis opacae,id. Th. 4, 512.
* A gloomy or mournful condition: pars vitae tristi cetera nube vacet,Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 22: omni detersus pectora nube,Stat. S. 1, 3, 109.
* A veil, obscurity, concealment: fraudibus obice nubem,Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 62.
* A cloud, storm-cloud, i. e. a threatening appearance or approach of misfortune, war: nubem belli, dum detonet omnis, Sustinet,Verg. A. 10, 809: consurgens in Italiā nubes trucis et cruenti belli,Just. 29, 3.
* Nubis ater,Plaut. Merc. 5 2, 38: nubs for nubes, Liv. Andron. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 10, 636; cf. Aus. Idyll. de Monosyll. Hist. 12, 4) [Sanscr. nabhas, vapor, cloud; Gr. νέφος, νεφέλη; Lat. nubilus, nebula; cf. nimbus, nubo], a cloud.
* Lit.: aër concretus in nubes cogitur,Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101: id. Ac. 2, 22, 70: atra nubes Condidit lunam,Hor. C. 2, 16, 2: candida,Vulg. Apoc. 14, 14: aestivis effusus nubibus imber,Verg. G. 4, 312; Ov. M. 8, 339: venti nubes abigunt,Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 126: nube deprendere volucrem jaculis,to bring down a bird from the sky,Sil. 16, 566: usque ad nubes,up to heaven,Vulg. Psa. 35, 6; id. Jer. 51, 9.— Poet.: Sabaeae nubes,the smoke of frankincense,Stat. S. 4, 8, 2.
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* A cloud, thick multitude, dense mass, swarm: locustarum tantae nubes,Liv. 42, 10, 7: Pomptinum velut nubibus locustarum coopertum,id. 42, 2, 4: levium telorum,id. 38, 26: obruti velut nube jaculorum a Balearibus conjectā,id. 21, 55, 6: peditum equitumque,id. 35, 49: (volucrum),Verg. A. 12, 254: nigro glomeratur pulvere nubes,id. ib. 9, 33: muscarum,Plin. 29, 6, 34, § 106: pulveris,Curt. 4, 15, 32: (volucrum) nubem sonoram,Juv. 13, 167: farrea nubes, i. e. porrigo capitis, furfures,Ser. Samm. 3, 34: nubes testium,Vulg. Hebr. 12, 1.
* A cloud, for something unreal or unsubstantial, a phantom: nubes et inania captare,Hor. A. P. 230.
* Cloudiness, of a gloomy countenance, of sleep, of drunkenness, of blindness (poet.): deme supercilio nubem,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 94; Sil. 8, 612: meri,Val. Fl. 3, 65: soporis,Stat. Achill. 1, 646: mortis,id. S. 4, 6, 72: frontis opacae,id. Th. 4, 512.
* A gloomy or mournful condition: pars vitae tristi cetera nube vacet,Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 22: omni detersus pectora nube,Stat. S. 1, 3, 109.
* A veil, obscurity, concealment: fraudibus obice nubem,Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 62.
* A cloud, storm-cloud, i. e. a threatening appearance or approach of misfortune, war: nubem belli, dum detonet omnis, Sustinet,Verg. A. 10, 809: consurgens in Italiā nubes trucis et cruenti belli,Just. 29, 3.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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