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Lewis Short

rōbīgo | rūb- (noun F) : (), , robus = ruber; formed like aerugo, ferrugo
* Rust of metals.
* Lit.: hoc quidem pol e robigine, non e ferro factum est,Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 13: exesa inveniet scabra robigine pila,Verg. G. 1, 495: salsā laedit robigine ferrum,id. ib. 2, 220; Plin. 7, 15, 13, § 64: non rubigo ulla, non aerugo,id. 33, 3, 19, § 62.
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* Trop., rust (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): ingenium longa rubigine laesum Torpet,Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 21: animorum,Sen. Ep. 95, 36; 7, 7: horridae vetustatis,Val. Max. 2, 9, 5.— As personified, v. Robigus fin.
* The deposit, mould, etc., that collects on millstones, Plin. 36, 18, 30, § 136; on the teeth, Ov. M. 2, 776; 8, 802; id. A. A. 1, 515; an ulcer in a wound, Calp. Ecl. 5, 76; a sore, ulcer, produced by lewdness, Varr. ap. Serv. Verg. G. 1, 151.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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