irritamen

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

irrītāmen (inr-), ĭnis, n. [1. irrito],

an incitement , incentive , provocative (poet.): opes, animi inritamen avari, Ov. M. 13, 434: amoris, id. ib. 9, 133.—In plur.: cum (taurus) sua terribili petit inritamina cornu Poeniceas vestis, Ov. M. 12, 103: corporis, Prud. Ham. 523.

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