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ălĭmentum , i, n. alo,
I.nourishment, nutriment; and concr., food, provisions, aliment (in the poets only in the plur.).
I. In gen.: “alimenta corporis,Cic. Univ. 6: “plus alimenti est in pane quam in ullo alio,Cels. 2, 18; so id. 8, 1; Plin. 17, 13, 20: “alimenta reponere in hiemem,Quint. 2, 16, 16; Suet. Tib. 54; cf. Tac. A. 6, 23: “alimenta petens,Vulg. Gen. 41, 55: “alimenta negare,Ov. Tr 5, 8, 13: “habentes alimenta et quibus tegamur,Vulg. 1 Tim. 6, 8.—In the jurists: “alimenta,all things which pertain to the support of life, aliment, maintenance, support, Dig. 34, tit. 1, De alimentis, and 1. 6.— Poet. (very freq. in Ovid): “picem et ceras, alimentaque cetera flammae,Ov. M. 14, 532: “concipit Iris aquas, alimentaque nubibus affert,id. ib. 1, 271: “lacrimaeque alimenta fuere,tears were his food, id. ib. 10, 75 (cf.: “fuerunt mihi lacrimae meae panes die ac nocte,Vulg. Psa. 41, 4): “ignis,Ov. M. 8, 837. —Trop.: “vitiorum,Ov. M. 2, 769: “furoris,id. ib. 3, 479: “addidit alimenta rumoribus,gave new support to the rumors, Liv. 35, 23 fin.: “alimentum famae,Tac. H. 2, 96: “alimentum virtutis honos,Val. Max. 2, 6, 5.—
II. Esp., for the Gr. τροφεῖα or θρέπτρα, the reward or recompense due to parents from children for their rearing: quasi alimenta exspectarct a nobis (patria), Cic. Rep. 1, 4 Mos. (in Val. Fl. 6, 570, this is expressed by nutrimenta; in Dig. 50, 13, 1, § 14, by nutricia).
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (20):
    • New Testament, 1 Timothy, 6.8
    • Old Testament, Psalm, 41.4
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 10.75
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.532
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.271
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.769
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.479
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 41.55
    • Suetonius, Tiberius, 54
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.837
    • Tacitus, Annales, 6.23
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 2.96
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 17.13
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 8.1
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 2.18
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 35, 23
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 6.570
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 16.16
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 2.6.5
    • Cicero, Timaeus, 6
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