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limosus

limosus, full of mud, slimy, miry, muddy

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

līmōsus, a, um: full of mud; miry, slimy, 2.135. (līmus)
līmōsus, a, um, adj. [2. limus],
  • full of mud or slime, slimy, miry, muddy: quae (aqua) flumine Nilo fertur, adeo est limosa atque turbida, etc., Auct. B. Alex. 5: limosoque palus obducit pascua junco, i.e. growing in muddy places, Verg. E. 1, 49; cf. radix, Plin. 27, 1, 17, § 34: lacus, Verg. A. 2, 135: ripae, Ov. Am. 3, 6, 1: harena, id. Tr. 4, 1, 7.—Plur. absol.: līmōsa, ōrum, n., muddy or miry places, Plin. 9, 42, 66, § 142.

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