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eluvies

eluvies · f

a washing away

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Where it lives

Historiae Alexandri Magni 2 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

ēlŭvĭes — Lewis & Short

ēlŭvĭes, em, e, f.eluo,

I a washing away of impurities, a flowing off, discharge.

I Lit., Plin. 2, 82, 84, § 197; Pall. 1, 40, 4; Juv. 3, 32: ventris, Lucil. ap. Non. 103, 33; Aur. Vict. Epit. 9 fin.—

II In gen., an overflowing, an inundation of a river, etc.: eluvie mons est deductus in aequor, Ov. M. 15, 267; Tac. A. 13, 57.—

B Meton., a chasm, abyss, ravine produced by the violent rushing of water, Curt. 5, 4 fin. (shortly before: vorago concursu cavata torrentium); 6, 4 fin.—In plur. (with voragines), id. 8, 11.—

III Trop., of a ruinous law: ad illam labem atque eluviem civitatis pervenire, Cic. Dom. 20, 53 fin.

In the wild

eluvies Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.28
eluvies Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 5.4.26
eluvies Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 6.4.20

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