pulverem ob oculos aspergĕre

pulvis, ĕris (nom. pulver, App. Herb. 35; Theod. Prisc. 1, 30; 2, 32; cf. Prisc. p. 707 P.), m. ( fem., Enn. ap. Non. 217, 11 sq.; Prop. 1, 22, 6; 2, 13, 35 (3, 5, 19);

and also,

masc., id. 1, 17, 23; 1, 19, 6; 4 (5), 9, 31).

Lit., dust, powder: jamque fere pulvis ad caelum vasta videtur, Enn. ap. Non. 217, 11 (Ann. v. 286 Vahl.): fulva, id. ap. Non. 217, 13 (Ann. v. 319 ib.):

si multus erat in calceis pulvis,

Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 47; Lucr. 3, 381:

pulveris nebula,

id. 5, 254:

Romani pulveris vim magnam animadvortunt,

Sall. J. 53, 1; Caes. B. C. 2, 26:

qui (ventus) nubes pulveris vehit,

Liv. 22, 43:

prospectum oculorum nubes pulveris abstulerat,

Curt. 4, 15, 32; 5, 13, 12; Sil. 2, 174:

subitam nigro glomerari pulvere nubem Prospiciunt,

Verg. A. 9, 33:

pulvis collectus turbine,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 31:

pulverem Olympicum Collegisse,

id. C. 1, 1, 3:

crinis pulvere collines,

id. ib. 1, 15, 20:

pulvere sparsi juvenes,

Phaedr. 4, 24, 22:

tum caeco pulvere campus Miscetur,

Verg. A. 12, 444:

pulverem excutere,

Ov. A. A. 1, 150:

sedare,

Phaedr. 2, 5, 18:

movere,

Quint. 5, 10, 81:

excitare,

Col. Arb. 12:

glaebam in pulverem resolvere,

id. 11, 2, 60: eruditus, the dust or sand in which mathematicians drew their figures, Cic. N. D. 2, 18, 48; cf. id. Tusc. 5, 23, 64:

formas in pulvere describere,

Liv. 25, 31; Pers. 1, 131:

amomi,

dust, powder, Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 69:

carbonis,

coal-dust, id. A. A. 3, 628. — Poet.:

Etrusca,

i. e. soil, Prop. 1, 22, 6; so of potters' earth, Mart. 14, 1021; 1141; of volcanic ashes:

Puteolanus,

pozzolana, Stat. S. 4, 3, 53; Sen. Q. N. 3, 20, 3; Plin. 35, 13, 47, § 166.—Of the dust or ashes of the dead:

pulvis et umbra sumus,

Hor. C. 4, 7, 16 al.; cf.:

pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris,

Vulg. Gen. 3, 19:

hibernus,

i. e. a dry winter, Verg. G. 1, 101.—Esp.: pulvis belli, war:

formosus pulvere belli,

Mart. 8, 65, 3:

duces Non indecoro pulvere sordidi,

Hor. C. 2, 1, 22:

in pulverem Martium tractus,

Amm. 16, 1, 5:

exercitus pulvere coalitus Martio,

id. 21, 12, 22.—In plur.:

novendiales,

Hor. Epod. 17, 48:

cineris pulveres,

Pall. 3, 25, 14 (cf. id. 11, 14, 15):

pulverum mole degravante,

Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 83; cf. Gell. 19, 8, 13:

natio ad pulveres Martios erudita,

Amm. 23, 6, 83.—Prov.: sulcos in pulvere ducere, to draw furrows in the sand, i. e. to give one's self useless trouble, Juv. 7, 48: pulverem ob oculos aspergere, to throw dust in one's eyes, i. e. to deceive, Gell. 5, 21, 4.—

Transf.

A place of contest, arena, lists: domitant in pulvere currus, Verg. A. 7, 163; Mart. 12, 83.—

In gen., a scene of action, field (cf. arena):

doctrinam ex umbraculis eruditorum in solem atque pulverem produxit,

i. e. before the public, Cic. Leg. 3, 6, 14; cf. Hor. C. 1, 8, 4:

educenda dictio est in agmen, in pulverem,

Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 157:

forensis pulvis,

Quint. 10, 1, 33:

inque suo noster pulvere currat equus,

on his own field, within his own territory, Ov. F. 2, 360.—

Toil, effort, labor ( poet.):

cui sit condicio dulcis sine pulvere palmae,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 51.

1)

а) пыль, мелкий песок (nubes pulveris Lcr, L, QC, V etc.)

б) перен. математика ( numquam eruditum pulverem attingere C)

2) порошок (ex lapide speculari p. tritus Pt)

3) пепел (покойника), прах (p. et umbra sumus H)

4) глина (p. Etrusca Prp)

5) арена, ристалище ( domitare in pulvere currūs V)

6) поприще, поле деятельности ( in suo pulvere O)

7) борьба, усилие, напряжение