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sanguĭnŏlentus (collat. form san-guĭlentus , Scrib. Comp. 182), a, um, adj. sanguis
I. Lit., full of blood, bloody (class., but, like sanguineus, mostly poet.; not in Cic.): torques, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 13, 18; so, “soror,” Tib. 2, 6, 40: “pectora,” Ov. H. 3, 50: “ille,” id. F. 4, 844: “Erinys,” id. H. 6, 46: “(Curetes) inter se armis Ludunt in numerumque exsultant sanguinolenti,” Lucr. 2, 631; “v. Lachm. ad h. l.: Allia...vulneribus Latiis,” Ov. A. A. 1, 414: seditiones, Varr. ap. Non. 465, 33.—
B. Transf., bloodred: “color,” Ov. Am. 1, 12, 12.—
II. Trop., full of blood, bloody, sanguinary: “palma,” Auct. Her. 4, 39, 51: centesimae, qs. bloodsucking, Sen. Ben. 7, 10, 3: “littera,” i. e. offensive, injurious, Ov. Ib. 4.
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 (4):
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.631
    • Seneca, de Beneficiis, 7.10.3
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 9.13.18
    • Ovid, Fasti, 4
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