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spūmōsus , a, um, adj. spuma.
I. Lit., full of foam, foaming (poet. and in postAug. prose): “unda,Verg. A. 6, 174: “litora,Cat. 64, 121: “undae,Ov. M. 1, 570: “aequor,Luc. 2, 627: “morsus equi,Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 548: “spumosus nec sanguineus (pulmo),Plin. 11, 37, 72, § 188.—Comp.: “Addua,Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 458.—*
II. Trop.: “carmen,frothy, bombastic, Pers. 1, 96.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.570
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.174
    • Lucan, Civil War, 2.627
    • Persius, Saturae, 1
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