Nimbus, nimbi, m. g. Cic.A great shower of raine: a sodaine storme of haile or raine, a great blast of wind: a tempest of weather. By translation a sodaine or great fall. A vessell out of which wine is drawne. A clowde that goddes descended in from heauen.Nox nimborum.Virg. Piceus nimbus. Stat.Ætherei nimbi.Virg. Præceps nimbus. Val. Flac.Australes nimbi. Oui. Stormes. Remoti Aquilone nimbi Hyemales nimbi.Ouid.Ouid.Hiulci nimbi. Claud. Subiti nimbi. Sil. Ital. Niger nimbus. Lucr. Terrifici nimbi. Ouid.Nigrans. Lucret. Torrens crepitanti grandine Obscurus.Virg. nimbus. Sil. Ital. Cinxerunt æthera nimbi.Virg.The clowdes compassed the aire on euerie side.Crepitant nimbi culminibus multa grandine. Virgil. The storme ratled on the tops of the houses with greate store of haile.Omnia feruent nimbis.Virg.Densi funduntur ab æthere nimbi.Ouid.Greate showers of raine fall.Inuoluêre diem nimbi, Virg.The day was cleane ouercaste with darke tempestuous weather.Nox tenebat lunam in nimbo.Virg.In a cloude. Nimbus, per translationem.Cic.A sodaine mischiefe or ruine. Hunc quidem nimbum cito transijsse lætor. Cicer. Nimbus, pro vento.Virg. Sonuerunt nimbi toto æthere. Virg.The windes coared. Nimbus.Virg.A cloude that Gods descended in. Cum nimbo cælitus discendit Iupiter. Lucil. Nimbus. Mart. A vessell for wine or other liquor. Largas fundet nimbus aquas. Mart.
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nimbus, i (gen. plur. nimbūm, Pac. ap. Trag. Rel. 412 Rib.), m. [Sanscr. nabhas, cloud, vapor; Gr. ne/fos, nefe/lh; cf.: nubes, nebula], a violent or pouring rain, a rain-storm. I.Lit.: terra abit in nimbos imbremque, Lucil. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, 24 Müll.: nec nubila nimbis aspergunt, Lucr. 3, 19: terrere animos fulminibus, tempestatibus, nimbis, nivibus, grandinibus, Cic. N. D. 2, 5, 14: denso regem operuit nimbo, Liv. 1, 16: cum multo stillaret paenula nimbo, Juv. 5, 79.—B.Transf.1.A black rain-cloud, a thunder-cloud: noctisque et nimbūm occaecat nigror, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24, and de Or. 3, 39, 157: involvere diem nimbi, Verg. A. 3, 198; so id. ib. 3, 587; Stat. Th. 1, 97.—b.A cloud in general. So the bright cloud or cloudshaped splendor which enveloped the gods when they appeared on earth: proprie nimbus est, qui deorum vel imperantium capita quasi clara nebula ambire fingitur, Serv. Verg. A. 3, 585: nimbo succincta, Verg. A. 10, 634: nimbo effulgens, id. ib. 2, 616: nube candentes umeros amictus Augur Apollo, Hor. C. 1, 2, 31.—Hence, in eccl. Lat., of a saint's aureole, Isid. 19, 31, 2.— (b).A cloud of smoke, dust, etc.: respiciunt atram in nimbo volitare favillam, Verg. A. 5, 666: fulvae nimbus harenae, id. G. 3, 110: pulveris, Claud. in Rufin. 2, 176.—2.A head-band, frontlet, worn by females to make the forehead appear small, acc. to Isid. Orig. 19, 31 (in Arn. 2, 72, the correct reading is not nimbis, but limbis; v. limbus).—3. Like the Engl. cloud, of a multitude of things which spread out like a cloud: nimbus peditum, Verg. A. 7, 793: pilorum, Sil. 5, 215: telorum, Luc. 4, 776: velut nimbum glandis et sagittas ingerebant, Liv. 36, 18, 5: lapidum saxorumque, Flor. 3, 8, 4: Corycius, i. e.
of saffron
, Mart. 9, 39, 5: et Cilices nimbis hic maduere suis, id. Spect. 3, 8: lucerna nimbis ebria Nicerotianis,
full of perfumed unguents
, id. ib. 10, 38, 8: purpureus, a great quantity of flowers, Claud. Nupt. Honor. et Mar. 298.—4.A vessel with many holes in it, used at public shows and at entertainments for sprinkling liquid perfumes: nimbus vitreus, Mart. 14, 112in lemm.— II.Trop., a storm, tempest, i. e. sudden misfortune: hunc quidem nimbum cito transisse laetor, Cic. Att. 15, 9, 2.