The corpus record — Latin

lividus

lividus · adj

of a blue

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Florida 2 · 2.54/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.26/10k
Carmina 5 · 2.23/10k
De Medicina 20 · 1.95/10k
Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

līvĭdus — Lewis & Short

līvĭdus, a, um, adj.liveo,

I of a blue or leaden color, bluish, blue.

I Lit.: vada, Verg. A. 6, 320: lividissima vorago, Cat. 17, 11: racemi, Hor. C. 2, 5, 10.—

B Esp., produced by beating, bruising, etc., black and blue, livid: livida armis Bracchia, Hor. C. 1, 8, 10: ora livida facta, Ov. H. 20, 82; Plin. 24, 11, 55, § 93.—

C Transf., making livid, i. e. deadly: livida materno fervent adipata veneno, Juv. 6, 631.—

II Trop., envious, invidious, spiteful, malicious.

A Of persons: invidi et malevoli et lividi, Cic. Tusc. 4, 12, 28 (dub.): nos nostraque lividus odit, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 89.—

B Of inanim. and abstr. things: lingua, Ov. F. 1, 74: obliviones (because forgetfulness robs the deserving of the praise which is his due), Hor. C. 4, 9, 33: sententia, spiteful, malicious, Sen. Contr. 2, 14.—Hence, līvĭdē, adv., of a leaden color, lividly.—Comp., Plin. 37, 7, 25, § 94 dub.

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