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1 ravenous
['rævənəs](very hungry.) sestradan- ravenousness* * *[raevənəs]adjectiveizstradan, sestradan, lačen kot volk; pohlepen ( for česa); požrešenravenous eagerness — silna gorečnost, vnemaI am ravenous — umiram od gladu, lačen sem kot volk -
2 rabiēs
rabiēs —, em, e, f [RAB-], rage, madness, frenzy: velut iniectā rabie ad arma ituri, L.: Statque canum rabie (Scylla), i. e. canibus rabidis, O.—Fig., violent passion, extreme excitement, rage, anger, fury, fierceness, eagerness: huius rabies quae dabit, i. e. what he will do in his furious love, T.: sine rabie: Archilochum proprio rabies armavit iambo, H.: civica, the fury of civil war, H.: edendi, V.: Et rabie fera corda tument, i. e. inspiration, V.: fatalis temporis, L.: ventorum, O.: Canis, fierce heat, H.: ventris, i. e. ravenous hunger, V.* * * -
3 rabies
răbĭes, em, e ( gen. rabies, Lucr. 4, 1083; the other cases do not occur), f. [rabio].I. 1.Of dogs, Col. 7, 12, 14; Plin. 7, 15, 13, § 64; 29, 5, 32, § 99.—2.Of other animals, Col. 6, 35; Plin. 8, 18, 26, § 68:3.ursina,
id. 8, 36, 54, § 130.—Of men, madness, frenzy, Plin. 7, prooem. fin. 1, § 5; Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 26; cf.: contactos eo scelere velut injectā rabie ad arma ituros, Liv. 21, 48, 4.—II.Trop., of any violent emotion, rage, anger, fury, fierceness, eagerness:b.Hecubam putant propter animi acerbitatem quandam et rabiem fingi in canem esse conversam,
Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63:sine rabie,
id. ib. 4, 24, 53; Tac. H. 1, 63:Archilochum proprio rabies armavit iambo,
Hor. A. P. 79; cf. id. Ep. 2, 1, 149:non dico horrendam rabiem,
id. S. 2, 3, 323; Vell. 2, 64, 2:civica,
fierce civil war, Hor. C. 3, 24, 26; cf. Tac. H. 2, 38; 5, 25; id. A. 1, 31; 39:hostilis,
Liv. 29, 8 fin.:edendi,
Verg. A. 9, 64. — Of the madness of love. Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 10; Lucr. 4, 1079; Hor. Epod. 12, 9. —Of the Sibyl's inspiration,
Verg. A. 6, 49. —Of things:rabies fatalis temporis,
Liv. 28, 34:ventorum,
Ov. M. 5, 7; cf.Noti,
Hor. C. 1, 3, 14:caelique marisque,
Verg. A. 5, 802:pelagi,
Sil. 2, 290:Canis,
the fierce heat of the dogstar, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 16:ventris,
i. e. ravenous hunger, voracity, Verg. A. 2, 357; Sil. 2, 472.
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