viperam+sub+alā+nutricare

nūtrīco, āre, and nūtrīcor, ātus, 1, v. dep. [id.], to suckle, nourish, bring up, rear.

Lit.:

pueros nutricare,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 11:

scrofae nutricare octonos porcos parvulos primo possunt,

Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 13; 2, 2, 8: nutricatur oliva, Afran. ap. Non. 478, 26:

viperam sub alā,

Petr. 50.—

Trop., to nourish, support, sustain: bona mea inhiant;

at certatim nutricant et munerant,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 120:

mundus omnia, sicut membra et partes suas, nutricatur et continet,

Cic. N. D. 2, 34, 86 Orell. N. cr.; cf. Non. 478, 21:

eum paupertas nutricata est,

App. Mag. p. 285, 33.

nūtrīco, āre, and nūtrīcor, ātus, 1, v. dep. [id.], to suckle, nourish, bring up, rear.

Lit.:

pueros nutricare,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 11:

scrofae nutricare octonos porcos parvulos primo possunt,

Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 13; 2, 2, 8: nutricatur oliva, Afran. ap. Non. 478, 26:

viperam sub alā,

Petr. 50.—

Trop., to nourish, support, sustain: bona mea inhiant;

at certatim nutricant et munerant,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 120:

mundus omnia, sicut membra et partes suas, nutricatur et continet,

Cic. N. D. 2, 34, 86 Orell. N. cr.; cf. Non. 478, 21:

eum paupertas nutricata est,

App. Mag. p. 285, 33.

vīpĕra, ae, f. [contr. from vivipera, from vivus-pario, that brings forth living young], a viper.

Lit.: Coluber berus, Linn.; Plin. 10, 62, 82, § 169.—

Transf.

Adder, snake, serpent, in gen., Prop. 4 (5), 7, 53; Verg. G. 3, 417; Hor. C. 3, 4, 17; id. Epod. 5, 15; 16, 52; Ov. M. 10, 24; id. R. Am. 421; id. A. A. 2, 376 al.—Prov.:

in sinu viperam habere,

Cic. Har. Resp. 24, 50:

viperam nutricare sub alā,

to nourish a viper in one's bosom, Petr. 77: vipera est in vepreculā, Pomp. ap. Non. p. 231, 13; v. veprecula.—

Viper! serpent! as a term of reproach for a dangerous person:

saevissima,

Juv. 6, 641:

tandem, vipera, sibilare desiste,

Flor. 4, 12, 37; cf. Don. Ter. Eun. 5, 1, 8.