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I. Lit.: “aër concretus in nubes cogitur,” Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101: id. Ac. 2, 22, 70: “atra nubes Condidit lunam,” Hor. C. 2, 16, 2: “candida,” Vulg. Apoc. 14, 14: “aestivis effusus nubibus imber,” Verg. G. 4, 312; Ov. M. 8, 339: “venti nubes abigunt,” Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 126: “nube deprendere volucrem jaculis,” to bring down a bird from the sky, Sil. 16, 566: “usque ad nubes,” up to heaven, Vulg. Psa. 35, 6; id. Jer. 51, 9.— Poet.: “Sabaeae nubes,” the smoke of frankincense, Stat. S. 4, 8, 2.—

B. Transf.

1. A cloud, a dark spot: “sudare nubemque discutere,” i. e. by the breath, Plin. 33, 8, 44, § 127: “crystalla infestantur plurimis vitiis, maculosā nube, etc.,” id. 37, 2, 10, § 28.—

2. A cloud, thick multitude, dense mass, swarm: “locustarum tantae nubes,” Liv. 42, 10, 7: “Pomptinum velut nubibus locustarum coopertum,” id. 42, 2, 4: “levium telorum,” id. 38, 26: “obruti velut nube jaculorum a Balearibus conjectā,” id. 21, 55, 6: “peditum equitumque,” id. 35, 49: “(volucrum),” Verg. A. 12, 254: “nigro glomeratur pulvere nubes,” id. ib. 9, 33: “muscarum,” Plin. 29, 6, 34, § 106: “pulveris,” Curt. 4, 15, 32: “(volucrum) nubem sonoram,” Juv. 13, 167: “farrea nubes, i. e. porrigo capitis, furfures,” Ser. Samm. 3, 34: “nubes testium,” Vulg. Hebr. 12, 1.—

II. Trop.

A. A cloud, for something unreal or unsubstantial, a phantom: “nubes et inania captare,” Hor. A. P. 230.—

B. Cloudiness, of a gloomy countenance, of sleep, of drunkenness, of blindness (poet.): “deme supercilio nubem,” Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 94; Sil. 8, 612: “meri,” Val. Fl. 3, 65: “soporis,” Stat. Achill. 1, 646: “mortis,” id. S. 4, 6, 72: “frontis opacae,” id. Th. 4, 512.—

C. A gloomy or mournful condition: “pars vitae tristi cetera nube vacet,” Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 22: “omni detersus pectora nube,” Stat. S. 1, 3, 109.—

D. A veil, obscurity, concealment: “fraudibus obice nubem,” Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 62.—

E. A cloud, storm-cloud, i. e. a threatening appearance or approach of misfortune, war: “nubem belli, dum detonet omnis, Sustinet,” Verg. A. 10, 809: “consurgens in Italiā nubes trucis et cruenti belli,” Just. 29, 3.

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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Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (23):
- New Testament, Revelation, 14.14
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.339
- Vergil, Aeneid, 10.809
- Vergil, Aeneid, 12.254
- Vergil, Georgics, 4.312
- Old Testament, Jeremiah, 51.9
- Old Testament, Psalm, 35.6
- Horace, Ars Poetica, 230
- Plautus, Mercator, 5.2
- Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 37.28
- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 42, 10
- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 42, 2
- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 21, 55
- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 38, 26
- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 35, 49
- Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.39
- C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 3.65
- Ovid, Tristia, 5.5
- Statius, Thebias, 4
- Statius, Silvae, 1.3
- Statius, Silvae, 4.6
- Statius, Silvae, 4.8
- Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.15.32

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