I.the sediment of a costly fish-sauce, garum; and in gen. the sauce prepared from small fish, fish-pickle, fish-brine: alec danunt, * Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 2, 395; 120, 3: “faecem et allec,” Hor. S. 2, 4, 73; 2, 8, 9 K. and H.: “putri cepas hallece natantes,” Mart. 3, 77 Schneid.—The plur. not in use, v. Prisc. p. 686 P.
ālec (better, allec; hallec also in MSS.), ēcis, n., or ālex (hāl- ), ēcis, f. and m. (v. Rudd. I. p. 17, n. 93; Schneid. Gr. 2, 110 and 128), acc. to Plin. 31, 8, 44, § 95,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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