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malacia

malacia · f

a calm at sea, dead calm

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Where it lives

De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

mălăcĭa — Lewis & Short

mălăcĭa, ae, f., = malaki/a,

I a calm at sea, dead calm.

I Lit.: tanta subito malacia ac tranquillitas exstitit, ut se loco movere non possent, Caes. B. G. 3, 15, 3.—

B Trop.: in otio inconcusso jacere non est tranquillitas, malacia est, Sen. Ep. 67, 14.—

II Transf., a total want of appetite, nausea (post-Aug.): semen citreorum edendum praecipiunt in malacia praegnantibus, Plin. 23, 6, 56, § 105; so id. 23, 6, 57, § 107.— With stomachi: absinthium pellit malaciam stomachi, Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 48.

In the wild

malaciam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.7.p2
malacia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.7.p2
malaciae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.6.p4
malacia Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 7.67.14
malacia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.6.p3
malacia Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 3.15.3

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Where it came from

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