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ămoenus, a, um, adj. [amo; some comp. ameinôn], lovely, delightful, pleasant, charming (in gen. of objects affecting the sense of sight only; as a beautiful landscape, gar dens, rivers, pictures, etc.: amoena loca.. quod solum amorem praestentetad se amanda adliciant, Varr. ap. Isid. Orig. 14:

amoena sunt loca solius voluptatis plena,

Serv. ad Verg. A. 5, 734; while jucundus is used both in a phys. and mental sense; cf. Doed. Syn. III. p 36; class. in prose and poetry).

Lit.: amoena salicta, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 40 Vahl.): Ennius, qui primus amoeno Detulit ex Helicone perenni fronde coronam, who first from the charming Helicon, etc., Lucr. 1, 117:

fons,

id. 4, 1024:

locus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 71, 290:

praediola,

id. Att. 16, 3, 4:

loca amoena voluptaria,

Sall. C. 11, 5 Kritz:

amoena piorum Concilia,

Verg. A. 5, 734:

Devenere locos laetos et amoena virecta Fortunatorum nemorum sedesque beatas,

id. ib. 6, 638:

rus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 6:

aquae, aurae,

id. C. 3, 4, 7: hae latebrae dulces, etiam, si credis, amoenae, delightful to me (subjectively), but also in and of themselves (objectively) pleasant, id. Ep. 1, 16, 15 Schmid.; cf.

Doed. Syn. III. p. 35: amoenae Farfarus umbrae,

Ov. M. 14, 330, where Merkel, opacae Farfarus undae:

amoenissima aedificia,

Tac. H. 3, 30:

pictura,

Plin. 35, 10, 37 fin. —In reproach: cultus amoenior, too showy, coquetting, Liv. 4, 44, 11.—As subst., ămoena, ōrum, n. (cf. abditus, etc.), pleasant places:

per amoena Asiae atque Achaiae,

Tac. A. 3, 7:

amoena litorum,

id. H. 3, 76. —

Transf. to other things (rare, and for the most part only post-Aug.):

vita,

Tac. A. 15, 55:

ingenium,

id. ib. 2, 64; so id. ib. 13, 3:

animus, i. e. amoenitatibus deditus,

Aur. Vict. Epit. 1:

amoenissima verba,

Gell. 2, 26; 16, 3; 18, 5 al.—Hence, adv.

Old form ămoenĭter:

hilare atque amoeniter vindemiam agitare,

joyfully and delightfully, Gell. 20, 8.—

Usu. form ămoenē;

* in respect to smell,

sweetly, fragrantly, Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 2; of a dwelling, pleasantly (in sup.), Plin. Ep. 4, 23; of discourse (in comp.), Gell. 14, 1, 32.

ămoenus, a, um, adj. [amo; some comp. ameinôn], lovely, delightful, pleasant, charming (in gen. of objects affecting the sense of sight only; as a beautiful landscape, gar dens, rivers, pictures, etc.: amoena loca.. quod solum amorem praestentetad se amanda adliciant, Varr. ap. Isid. Orig. 14:

amoena sunt loca solius voluptatis plena,

Serv. ad Verg. A. 5, 734; while jucundus is used both in a phys. and mental sense; cf. Doed. Syn. III. p 36; class. in prose and poetry).

Lit.: amoena salicta, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 40 Vahl.): Ennius, qui primus amoeno Detulit ex Helicone perenni fronde coronam, who first from the charming Helicon, etc., Lucr. 1, 117:

fons,

id. 4, 1024:

locus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 71, 290:

praediola,

id. Att. 16, 3, 4:

loca amoena voluptaria,

Sall. C. 11, 5 Kritz:

amoena piorum Concilia,

Verg. A. 5, 734:

Devenere locos laetos et amoena virecta Fortunatorum nemorum sedesque beatas,

id. ib. 6, 638:

rus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 6:

aquae, aurae,

id. C. 3, 4, 7: hae latebrae dulces, etiam, si credis, amoenae, delightful to me (subjectively), but also in and of themselves (objectively) pleasant, id. Ep. 1, 16, 15 Schmid.; cf.

Doed. Syn. III. p. 35: amoenae Farfarus umbrae,

Ov. M. 14, 330, where Merkel, opacae Farfarus undae:

amoenissima aedificia,

Tac. H. 3, 30:

pictura,

Plin. 35, 10, 37 fin. —In reproach: cultus amoenior, too showy, coquetting, Liv. 4, 44, 11.—As subst., ămoena, ōrum, n. (cf. abditus, etc.), pleasant places:

per amoena Asiae atque Achaiae,

Tac. A. 3, 7:

amoena litorum,

id. H. 3, 76. —

Transf. to other things (rare, and for the most part only post-Aug.):

vita,

Tac. A. 15, 55:

ingenium,

id. ib. 2, 64; so id. ib. 13, 3:

animus, i. e. amoenitatibus deditus,

Aur. Vict. Epit. 1:

amoenissima verba,

Gell. 2, 26; 16, 3; 18, 5 al.—Hence, adv.

Old form ămoenĭter:

hilare atque amoeniter vindemiam agitare,

joyfully and delightfully, Gell. 20, 8.—

Usu. form ămoenē;

* in respect to smell,

sweetly, fragrantly, Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 2; of a dwelling, pleasantly (in sup.), Plin. Ep. 4, 23; of discourse (in comp.), Gell. 14, 1, 32.

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.

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.—

Transf.

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.—

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]

Trop.

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.