Fome: froath. Albenres spumæ. Ouid. Cana. Sen. Albida spuma. Ouid. Candida. Gell. Feruida Ouid. Virides spumæ serpentum. Claud. Agere spumas. Lucret. To fome. Sonantibus spumis alber mare. Ouid. Elisa spuma. Virg. Stridentem spumam fadit cum sanguine. Ouid. Incalescens spuma. Pli. Incanuir vnda spumis. Catul. Oblitus spumis rictus. Ouid. A month all fomie. Salis spumas ære ruebant. Virg. Nautæ adnixi torquent spumas. Virg. Tumentibus spumis albere. Ouid.

I. In gen., foam, froth, scum, spume from the mouth; of the sea; in boiling, etc. (class.; used alike in sing. and plur.): spiritus (equi) ex animā calidā spumas agit albas, foams, Enn. ap. Macr. 6, 3 (Ann. v. 507 Vahl.): vi morbi coactus Concidit et spumas agit, Lucr. 3, 489; cf.: cum spumas ageret in ore, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66, 148; Ov. M. 3, 74: per armos Spuma (apri) fluit, id. ib. 8, 288: Venus altera spuma procreata, Cic. N. D. 3, 23, 59; cf. Ov. M. 4, 538: spumas salis aere ruebant, Verg. A. 1, 35: lac spumis stridentibus albet, Ov. Am. 3, 5, 13: sanguinis, id. M. 8, 417; 7, 263: equi, Plin. 28, 11, 48, 174: cochleae, id. 29, 6, 37, 116; Col. 7, 5, 19; of men, Lucr. 6, 793.—

II. In partic., silver-spume, litharge of silver: argenti, Plin. 33, 6, 34, 102 sq.; 34, 18, 54, 176: spuma caustica, a pomade used by the Teutones for dyeing the hair red, Mart. 14, 26; called also spuma Batava, id. 8, 33, 20: nitri, Plin. 31, 10, 46, 112.