I.cloud-born, born of clouds or of a cloud (poet.).
I. In gen.: “amnes,” Stat. Th. 1, 365: “nimbi,” Prud. Hamart. 486: clipei, the Ancilia (so called because they fell from the sky), Stat. S. 5, 2, 131.—
II. In partic.
A. The Centaurs, whom Ixion begot of a cloud, Stat. Th. 5, 263; Ov. M. 12, 211; 541; cf. Hyg. Fab. 62.—
B. Phrixus, as the son of Nephele: Phrixus nubigena, Col. poët. 10, 115.