The corpus record — Latin

ligurio

to lick

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What it meant

lĭgūrĭo — Lewis & Short

lĭgūrĭo and lĭgurrĭo, īvi and ĭi, ītum (

I impers. ligurribant, Macr. S. 2, 12, 17), 4, v. a. and n. root lig-; cf. lingo, to lick. *

I Neutr., to be dainty, fond of good things (cf. lambo): quae (meretrices) cum amatore cum cenant, liguriunt, Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 14.—

II Act., to lick.

A Lit.: apes non, ut muscae, (eum) liguriunt, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 6: semesos pisces tepidumque jus, Hor. S. 1, 3, 81.—

2 Transf.: dum ruri rurant homines, quos (parasiti) liguriant, whom they lick, whom they daintily feed upon, Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 15: furta, to lick up, feast on by stealth, Hor. S. 2, 4, 79.—Also in mal. part., as Gr. lei/xein and leixa/zein, Suet. Tib. 45 fin.; Mart. 11, 58.—

B Trop., to long for, desire eagerly, lust after any thing: improbissima lucra liguriens, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 76, § 177: agrariam curationem, id. Fam. 11, 21, 5.

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