color+languescens+pm

lūtĕus, a, um, adj. [1. lutum], prop. of or belonging to the yellow-weed; hence, in gen., of the color of lutum.

Golden-yellow, saffron-yellow, orange-yellow. chrysocolla, Plin. 33, 5, 27, § 91; Varr. ap Non. 549, 22:

pallor,

Hor. Epod. 10, 16:

pal la,

Tib. 1, 7, 46.— Subst.: lūtĕum, i, n, [p. 1088] yellow:

color in luteum inclinatus,

towards yellow, Plin. 24, 15, 86, § 136:

color in luteum languescens,

id. 27, 13, 109, § 133.— Esp., the yolk of an egg:

lutea ex ovis quinque columbarum,

Plin. 30, 15, 49, § 141. —

Flame-colored, of the veil of a bride (v. flammeus), Luc. 2, 361; cf. Plin. 21, 8, 22, § 46; Cat. 61, 10.—

Rose-colored:

rosa... sese pandit in calyces medio sui stantis conplexa luteos apices,

Plin. 21, 4, 10, § 14: Aurora in roseis fulgebat lutea bigis ( = crocea; cf. krokopeplos, Hom. Il. 8, 1), Verg. A. 7, 26:

me Lutea mane videt pulsis Aurora tenebris,

Ov. M. 7, 703; 13, 579:

Memnonis in roseis lutea mater equis,

id. F. 4, 714; Anthol. Lat. 5, 7, 1.

lŭtĕus, a, um, adj. [2. lutum], of mud or clay.

Lit.:

defingit Rheni luteum caput,

Hor. S. 1, 10, 37:

opus,

of a swallow's nest, Ov. F. 1, 157:

aedificium,

Plin. 7, 56, 57. §

194: toreuma,

Mart. 4, 46, 16:

homo,

i. e. Adam, Prud. Cath. 3, 41.—

Transf.

Bemired, muddy:

gallina si sit luteis pedibus,

Plin. 30, 11, 28, § 93.—

Besmeared, bedaubed:

luteum ceromate corpus,

Mart. 11, 47, 5:

Vulcanus,

Juv. 10, 132.—

Trop., dirty, vile, worthless:

blitea et lutea meretrix,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 1:

homo,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 14, § 35:

negotium,

a sorry commodity, poor affair, id. ib. 2, 4, 14, § 32.

languesco, gŭi, 3, v. inch. n. [langueo], to become faint, weak, languid (class.; syn.: torpesco, marcesco).

Lit.

In gen.:

corpore languescit,

Cic. Fin. 4, 24, 65:

orator metuo ne languescat senectute,

id. de Sen. 9, 28:

corpora,

Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 39; Plin. Pan. 18:

vites languescunt,

Plin. 18, 15, 37, § 138:

cum flos, succisus aratro, languescit moriens,

droops, withers, Verg. A. 9, 436: Bacchus in amphora Languescit, becomes mild or mellow, Hor. C. 3, 16, 34:

luna languescit,

becomes obscured, Tac. A. 1, 28:

color in luteum languescens,

inclining to, Plin. 27, 13, 109, § 133.—

In partic., to be enfeebled by disease, to be ill, to languish ( poet. and post-Aug.):

nec mea languescent corpora,

Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 39:

ter omnino per quatuordecim annos languit,

Suet. Ner. 51.—

Trop., to grow languid, listless, or inactive, to decline, decrease:

consensus populi, si nos languescimus debilitetur necesse est,

Cic. Phil. 8, 2, 4:

Martia legio hoc nuntio languescet et mollietur,

id. ib. 12, 3, 8:

quare non est, cur eorum spes infringatur aut languescat industria,

should relax, id. Or. 2, 6:

militaria studia,

are on the decline, Plin. Pan. 18:

affectus omnes,

Quint. 11, 3, 2:

mens languescit,

id. 1, 2, 18: omnium rerum cupido languescit, cum facilis occasio est, Plin. Ep. 8, 20, 1:

paulatim atrocibus irae languescunt animis,

Sil. 13, 325:

illa rabies languit,

Luc. 7, 246.