I.bluish color, leaden color, a black and blue spot.
I. Lit.: “jam livorem tute scapulis istoc concinnas tuis,” Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 19: “livore decoloratum corpus mortui,” Auct. Her. 2, 5, 8: “ostendere nigram in facie tumidis livoribus offam,” Juv. 16, 11; Quint. 2, 21, 19; cf. id. 5, 9, 1; 11; 5, 10, 46: “illinitur livoribus,” Plin. 20, 22, 87, § 240.—Of a speck or taint in fruit: “uva conspectā livorem ducit ab uva,” Juv. 2, 81: “tum sucos herbasque dedi queis livor abiret,” Tib. 1, 6, 13.—
II. Trop., envy, spite, malice, ill-will (mostly poet. and post-Aug. for invidia): summā malevolentiā et livore impediuntur, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 10, 1: “obtrectatio et livor,” Tac. H. 1, 1: pascitur in vivis livor; “post fata quiescit,” Ov. Am. 1, 15, 39: “ergo submotum patriā proscindere, livor, Desine,” id. P. 4, 16, 47: “rumpere, livor edax,” id. R. Am. 389: “cupidus,” Prop. 1, 8, 29: “livor ac malignitas,” Suet. Calig. 34; Plin. Pan. 3, 4; 58, 5.
