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limus1

sidelong, askew, aslant, askance

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Where it lives

De Carnis Resurrectione 25 · 11.03/10k
Apotheosis 8 · 10.8/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 7.65/10k
Cathemerina 4 · 5.43/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 3 · 4.71/10k
Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
Georgicon 6 · 4.24/10k
Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
Satyrarum libri 4 · 2.82/10k
In Eutropium 2 · 2.78/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
De Carne Christi 2 · 2.1/10k

Densest 12 of 53 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. līmus — Lewis & Short

līmus, a, um (līmis, e,

Amm. 20, 9, 2;

I v. infra), adj. Gr. le/xrios, le/xris, loco/s; Lat. licinus, ob-liquus, luxus, sidelong, askew, aslant, askance.

I Lit.: limis oculis aspicere, to look sideways, look askance, Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 2: limis subrisit ocellis, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 33: (leones) nec limis intuentur oculis aspicique simili modo nolunt, Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 52: limibus oculis eos contuens, Amm. 20, 9.—So, limis aspicere (sc. oculis), Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 53: limi, et ut sic dicam venerei (sc. oculi), Quint. 11, 3, 76: oculi contuitu quoque multiformes, truces et limi, Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 145: limi Di, the guardian gods of obliquities, Arn. 4, 132.—

II Transf., of persons, looking sideways: neque post respiciens, neque ante prospiciens, sed limus intra limites culinae, Varr. ap. Non. 133, 31; cf. id. ib. 442, 33.—Hence, adv.: līmō, sideways, askance: leones numquam limo vident, Sol. 27, 20; for which: limis oculis in Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 52 (v. the passage above).

2. līmus — Lewis & Short

līmus, i, m.root lib-; Gr. lei/bw, to pour; cf. Lat. lino; Gr. li/mnh, limh/n,

I slime, mud, mire.

I Lit.: atque omnis mundi quasi limus in imum Confluxit gravis et subsedit funditus ut faex, Lucr. 5, 496: luta et limum aggerebant, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 212, 16: frumenti acervos sedisse illitos limo, Liv. 2, 5: profundo limo cum ipsis equis hausti sunt, id. 31, 27: amnis abundans Exit et obducto late tenet omnia limo, Verg. G. 1, 116: amnes Felicem trahunt limum, id. ib. 2, 188: limo Turbata aqua, Hor. S. 1, 1, 59: veteri craterae limus adhaesit, id. ib. 2, 4, 80.—

B Transf.

1 Excrement in the intestines, Pall. 3, 31.—

2 Dirt, mire: limumque inducere monstrat, Ov. F. 3, 759.—

II Trop., filth, pollution, etc.: pectora sic mihi sunt limo vitiata malorum, Ov. P. 4, 2, 17.

3. līmus — Lewis & Short

līmus, i, m.perh. for lig-mus, from ligo,

I a girdle or apron trimmed with purple, which the sacrificing priests and other servants of the magistrates wore about the abdomen: velati limo, Verg. A. 12, 120; cf.: limus autem est vestis, qua ab umbilico usque ad pedes teguntur pudenda poparum. Haec autem vestis in extremo sui purpuram limam, i. e. flexuosam habet. Unde et nomen accepit. Nam limum obliquum dicimus, Serv. ad Verg. l. l.: licio transverso, quod limum appellatur, cincti erant, Tiro ap. Gell. 12, 3, 3.

4. Līmus — Lewis & Short

Līmus, i, m.,

I the god of oblique glances, Arn. 4, cap. 9.

In the wild

limo Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 2
limus Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos 24
limo Ovid, Ex Ponto 4.2.19
limo Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.1.59
limo Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 7
limo Tertullian, Adversus Hermogenem 26

6 of 181 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. limus (scan p. 383; entry #6069).

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