illuvies

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

illŭvĭes (inl-), ēi, f. [in-luo].

I Dirt , filth , uncleanness of the body (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: alluvies, diluvies, colluvies, proluvies; squalor, sordes, paedor): hic cruciatur fame, frigore, illuvie, imbalnitie, imperfundie, incuria, Lucil. ap. Non. 126, 2; 125, 31; Varr. ib. 34; Ter. Heaut. 295: pectus illuvie scabrum, Cic. poët. Tusc. 3, 12, 26: illuvie ac squalore obsitus, Tac. A. 4, 28: illuvie deformis, id. H. 4, 46: morbo illuvieque peresa vellera, Verg. G. 3, 561: oris, Dig. 21, 1, 12.—As a term of reproach: di te perdant ... oboluisti allium, Germana illuvies, hircus, hara suis, you perfect beast , Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 39. —

II An overflowing , inundation (postclass.): aquarum, Just. 2, 1, 6; 2, 6, 10: placida, i. e. the water that has overflowed , Tac. A. 12, 51: imber campos lubricos fecerat, gravesque currus illuvie haerebant, in the mud , Curt. 8, 14, 4.

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