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the smoke of frankincense

  • 1 nubes

    nūbes, is, f. (ante-class. collat. form, nūbis, is, 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. nephos, nephelê; Lat. nubilus, nebula; cf. nimbus, nubo], a cloud.
    I.
    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.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    A cloud, a dark spot:

    sudare nubemque discutere,

    i. e. by the breath, Plin. 33, 8, 44, § 127:

    crystalla infestantur plurimis vitiis, maculosā nube, etc.,

    id. 37, 2, 10, § 28.—
    2.
    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.— [p. 1222]
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    A cloud, for something unreal or unsubstantial, a phantom:

    nubes et inania captare,

    Hor. A. P. 230.—
    B.
    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.—
    C.
    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.—
    D.
    A veil, obscurity, concealment:

    fraudibus obice nubem,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 62.—
    E.
    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.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > nubes

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