nimbus

nimbus ī, m

NEB-, a rain-storm, pouring rain, thick shower : terrere animos nimbis: densus, L.: ex omni nimbos demittere caelo, O.: toto sonuerunt aethere nimbi, storm-winds , V.— A black rain-cloud, thunder-cloud : nimbūm nigror, Pac. ap. C.: involvere diem nimbi, V.— A cloud, nimbus, cloudy splendor (around a god): nimbo succincta, V.— A cloud, mass, throng : Respiciunt in nimbo volitare favillam, V.: fulvae harenae, V.: glandis, L.—Fig., a storm, tempest, calamity : hunc nimbum transisse laetor.