I. Lit., of blood, consisting of blood, bloody, blood- (class.; a favorite word of the Aug. poets): imber, * Cic. Div. 2, 28, 60: “guttae,” Ov. M. 2, 360; 14, 408: “dapes,” Tib. 1, 5, 49: “manus,” Ov. M. 1, 143: “lingua,” id. ib. 3, 57: “humus,” id. H. 16, 334; cf. “mater,” id. M. 3, 125: “hasta,” Stat. Th. 8, 436: “pulmo,” Sen. Agam. 760; Plin. 11, 37, 72, § 188: “caedes,” Ov. M. 13, 85: “rixae,” Hor. C. 1, 27, 4: “bellum,” Val. Fl. 5, 308; 6, 134: “crines,” Stat. Th. 10, 173: “leo,” Val. Fl. 3, 588.—
B. Blood-thirsty: “vir,” i. e. Hannibal, Sil. 1, 40: “Mavors,” Verg. A. 12, 332: “Mars,” Ov. R. Am. 153.—
II. Transf., blood-colored, blood-red (poet. and in postAug. prose): “jubae (anguium),” Verg. A. 2, 207: “cometae,” id. ib. 10, 273: “mora,” id. E. 6, 22: “Luna,” Ov. Am. 2, 1, 23: “sagulum,” Sil. 4, 519: “color vini,” Plin. 14, 9, 11, § 80: “sucus,” id. 21, 16, 56, § 95: “frutices,” id. 16, 18, 30, § 74: “virgae,” Dig. 49, 9, 9: “cristae,” Col. 8, 2, 9: “flores,” id. 10, 242.
