lactĕus, a, um, adj. [lac].
I Of milk, milky; full of milk (mostly poet.).
A Lit.: umor, Ov. M. 15, 79: ubera, Verg. G. 2, 525.—
B In partic., milk-drinking, sucking : vernae, Mart. 3, 58, 22: porcus, id. 3, 47, 12.—
II Transf., milk-white, milkcolored, milky : colla, Verg. A. 8, 660: cervix, id. ib. 10, 137: gemma, Mart. 8, 45, 2: circulus, the Gr. γαλαξίας κύκλος, the Milky Way , Cic. Rep. 6, 16, 16; also, via, Ov. M. 1, 168.—
B Illa Livi lactea ubertas, pure , Quint. 10, 1, 32.