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lactes

lactes · f

the intestines

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What it meant

1. lactes — Lewis & Short

lactes, ium (in f.root lag-; Gr. lagaro/s; cf. Lat. languidus, laxus,

sing. lactis, is, only, acc. to Prisc. p. 686, erroneously on account of lactis agninas),

I the intestines; esp. the smaller intestines, chitterlings (anteclass. and post - Aug.): ab hoc ventriculo lactes in homine et ove, per quas labitur cibus: in ceteris hillae, Plin. 11, 37, 79, § 200: ita cibi vocivitate venio lassis lactibus, i. e. empty, famished, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 40: pulmone et lactibus unctis, Pers. 2, 30. —Prov.: adligare canem fugitivom agninis lactibus, said of the employment of a trifling remedy for a great evil, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 85.

2. lactes — Walde–Hofmann

lactes (Sg. -is in dieser Bed. nur Prisc.), -ium f. „die mit einer milchartigen Fettigkeit überzogenen Dünndärme der Tiere (scherzhaft von menschlichen Eingeweiden Plaut. Pompon.); die Milch mánnlicher Fische“ (seit Pl, rom.): Plur. von Zac (f. nach hira usw.; vgl. *lacticulum „Kalbsmilch“ oben S.741). — Nicht nach Walde LEW.* 406, Ernout-Meillet 491 aus gr. YaXakríbeg mit den Alten (vgl. Prisc. 11213, 1 'hae … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. lactes, p. 779]

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