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small dust

  • 1 pulvisculum

    pulviscŭlus, i, m. ( neutr. collat. form pulviscŭlum, i, Vigilant. ap. Hier. adv. Vigil. 4), dim. [pulvis].
    I.
    Lit., small dust, fine powder (ante- and post-class.), Sol. 15 fin.; App. M. 9, p. 222, 23; id. Mag. p. 277, 7: si abaco et pulvisculo te dedisses, i. e. the mathematical sciences (v. pulvis, I.), id. ib. p. 284, 1:

    pulvisculi flabiles,

    Arn. 2, 49. —
    II.
    Transf.: cum pulvisculo, dust and all, i. e. wholly, completely, Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 7; id. Truc. prol. 19.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > pulvisculum

  • 2 pulvisculus

    pulviscŭlus, i, m. ( neutr. collat. form pulviscŭlum, i, Vigilant. ap. Hier. adv. Vigil. 4), dim. [pulvis].
    I.
    Lit., small dust, fine powder (ante- and post-class.), Sol. 15 fin.; App. M. 9, p. 222, 23; id. Mag. p. 277, 7: si abaco et pulvisculo te dedisses, i. e. the mathematical sciences (v. pulvis, I.), id. ib. p. 284, 1:

    pulvisculi flabiles,

    Arn. 2, 49. —
    II.
    Transf.: cum pulvisculo, dust and all, i. e. wholly, completely, Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 7; id. Truc. prol. 19.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > pulvisculus

  • 3 nimbus

    nimbus, i ( gen. plur. nimbūm, Pac. ap. Trag. Rel. 412 Rib.), m. [Sanscr. nabhas, cloud, vapor; Gr. nephos, nephelê; cf.: nubes, nebula], a violent or pouring rain, a rain-storm.
    I.
    Lit.: terra abit in nimbos imbremque, Lucil. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 24 Müll.:

    nec nubila nimbis aspergunt,

    Lucr. 3, 19:

    terrere animos fulminibus, tempestatibus, nimbis, nivibus, grandinibus,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 5, 14:

    denso regem operuit nimbo,

    Liv. 1, 16:

    cum multo stillaret paenula nimbo,

    Juv. 5, 79.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    A black rain-cloud, a thunder-cloud: noctisque et nimbūm occaecat nigror, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24, and de Or. 3, 39, 157:

    involvere diem nimbi,

    Verg. A. 3, 198; so id. ib. 3, 587; Stat. Th. 1, 97.—
    b.
    A cloud in general. So the bright cloud or cloudshaped splendor which enveloped the gods when they appeared on earth:

    proprie nimbus est, qui deorum vel imperantium capita quasi clara nebula ambire fingitur,

    Serv. Verg. A. 3, 585:

    nimbo succincta,

    Verg. A. 10, 634:

    nimbo effulgens,

    id. ib. 2, 616:

    nube candentes umeros amictus Augur Apollo,

    Hor. C. 1, 2, 31.—Hence, in eccl. Lat., of a saint's aureole, Isid. 19, 31, 2.—
    (β).
    A cloud of smoke, dust, etc.:

    respiciunt atram in nimbo volitare favillam,

    Verg. A. 5, 666:

    fulvae nimbus harenae,

    id. G. 3, 110:

    pulveris,

    Claud. in Rufin. 2, 176.—
    2.
    A head-band, frontlet, worn by females to make the forehead appear small, acc. to Isid. Orig. 19, 31 (in Arn. 2, 72, the correct reading is not nimbis, but limbis; v. limbus).—
    3.
    Like the Engl. cloud, of a multitude of things which spread out like a cloud:

    nimbus peditum,

    Verg. A. 7, 793:

    pilorum,

    Sil. 5, 215:

    telorum,

    Luc. 4, 776:

    velut nimbum glandis et sagittas ingerebant,

    Liv. 36, 18, 5:

    lapidum saxorumque,

    Flor. 3, 8, 4:

    Corycius,

    i. e. of saffron, Mart. 9, 39, 5:

    et Cilices nimbis hic maduere suis,

    id. Spect. 3, 8:

    lucerna nimbis ebria Nicerotianis,

    full of perfumed unguents, id. ib. 10, 38, 8: purpureus, a great quantity of flowers, Claud. Nupt. Honor. et Mar. 298.—
    4.
    A vessel with many holes in it, used at public shows and at entertainments for sprinkling liquid perfumes:

    nimbus vitreus,

    Mart. 14, 112 in lemm. —
    * II.
    Trop., a storm, tempest, i. e. sudden misfortune:

    hunc quidem nimbum cito transisse laetor,

    Cic. Att. 15, 9, 2.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > nimbus

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