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paluster

fenny

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 1 · 0.88/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

păluster — Lewis & Short

păluster, tris, tre (

I masc. palustris, Col. 8, 14, 2), adj. 2. palus, fenny, marshy, swampy.

I Lit.: locus, Caes. B. G. 7, 20: ager, Liv. 36, 22; 22, 2: ulva, Verg. G. 3, 175; Col. 8, 14, 2: ranae, Hor. S. 1, 5, 14; cf. calami, Ov. M. 1, 706.—In plur. subst.: pă-lustrĭa, ĭum, n., swampy places, Plin. 14, 16, 19, § 110; Vulg. Ezech. 47, 11.—

II Trop.: lux, i. e., a filthy, vicious life, Pers. 5, 60.

In the wild

palustres Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.3.20
palustres Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.706
palustres Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.3.7
paluster Vitruvius, De Architectura 3.4.2
palustres Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 27.10.11
paluster Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.36.22.10

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Where it came from

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