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tābum , i, o, um, n. (
I.masc.: “tabum fluentem,” Sen. Herc. Oet. 520; cf. Charis. p. 19 P.) [tabes].
I. Lit., corrupt moisture, matter, corruption, putrid gore, etc. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): saxa spargens tabo, sanie et sanguine atro, Enn. ap. Cic. Pis. 19, 43; id. Tusc. 1, 44, 107 (Trag. v. 414 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 29; 3, 626; 8, 487; Ov. M. 2, 760; 6, 646; 14, 190; Hor. Epod. 5, 65; Tac. H. 2, 70.—Gen. tabi, Luc. 6, 547. — *
B. Poet., like sanies, of the liquor of the purple-fish, Stat. S. 1, 2, 125.—
II. Transf., abstr., an infectious disease, a plague, pest, pestilence (very rare): “turpi dilapsa cadavera tabo,” Verg. G. 3, 557; cf.: “corpora affecta tabo,” Liv. 4, 30, 4: “pallidaque exsangui squalebant corpora tabo,” Ov. M. 15, 627: “infecit pabula tabo,” Verg. G. 3, 481.
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 (12):
    • Cicero, Against Piso, 19.43
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.760
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.627
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.29
    • Vergil, Georgics, 3.481
    • Vergil, Georgics, 3.557
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 2.70
    • Lucan, Civil War, 6.547
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 4, 30.4
    • Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus, 520
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 1.44
    • Statius, Silvae, 1.2
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