nĭvĕus — Lewis & Short
nĭvĕus, a, um, adj.id.,
I of or from snow, snowy, snow- (poet.)
I Lit.:
aggeribus niveis informis,Verg. G. 3, 354: aqua, cooled with snow, Mart. 12, 17, 6; cf. id. 14, 104 and 117:
mons,covered with snow, Cat. 64, 240.—
II Transf., snow-white, snowy (mostly poet.):
a similitudine sic: Corpore niveum candorem, aspectu igneum ardorem assequebatur,Auct. Her. 4, 33, 44:
lacerti,Verg. A. 8, 387:
lac,id. E. 2, 20:
hanc si capite niveae agnae exorari judicas,Sen. Q. N. 2, 36:
Briseis niveo colore,Hor. C. 2, 4, 3:
vestis,Ov. M. 10, 432:
candidior nivei folio, Galatea, ligustri,id. ib. 13, 789:
dens,id. H. 18, 18:
quā notam duxit niveus videri,Hor. C. 4, 2, 59:
panis,Juv. 5, 70:
flumen,clear, pellucid, Sen. Hippol. 504:
undae,Mart. 7, 32, 11:
tribuni,clothed in white togas, Calp. Ecl. 7, 29; so,
Quirites,Juv. 10, 45.