pallor | Pallor (noun M) : palleo
* Pale color, paleness, wanness, pallor.
* Lit.: pudorem rubor, terrorem pallor et tremor consequitur,Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 19: albus ora pallor inficit,Hor. Epod. 7, 15: luteus,id. ib. 10, 16; id. S. 2, 8, 35; 2, 18, 25: partemque coloris Luridus exsangues pallor convertit in herbas,Ov. M. 4, 267; cf.: gelidus pallor,id. Tr. 1, 4, 11: confuderat oris exsanguis notas pallor,Curt. 8, 3, 13: pallor ora occupat,Verg. A. 4, 499: femineus pallor in corpore,Plin. Pan. 48, 4: Aurorae,Stat. Th. 2, 334.— Esp. of lovers: tinctus violā pallor amantium,Hor. C. 3, 10, 14; cf. Ov. M. 8, 790; Prop. 1, 5, 21.—Of the Lower World: pallor hiemsque tenent late loca senta,Ov. M. 4, 436; Luc. 5, 628.—Plur.: quae palloribus omnia pingunt,Lucr. 4, 336: tot hominum pallores,the paleness of death,Tac. Agr. 45, 3.
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* Trop., alarm, terror: palla pallorem incutit,Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 46: hic tibi pallori, Cynthia, versus erit,Prop. 2, 5, 30: quantus pro conjuge pallor,Stat. S. 5, 1, 70: notare aliquem pallore,Luc. 8, 55.—Hence
* A disagreeable color or shape, unsightliness: palloribus omnia pingunt,Lucr. 4, 311: pallorem ducere,Ov. M. 8, 759: obscurus solis,in an eclipse,Luc. 7, 200; Plin. 2, 30, 30, § 98.
* Personified as the god of fear, Liv. 1, 27, 7; Lact. 1, 20, 11.

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