Lac, lactis, n. g. Sine plurali. Virg.Milke. A bundans lactis.Virg.That hath store & plentie of milke.Lactis abundantiam nutricibus facit caulis decoctus. Plin. Lactis coagulatio. Plin. Turning of milke to curdes.Lactis copiam mulicribus facit glauciscus è iure sumptus. Pl. Glauciscus eaten in broath, make women haue plentie of milke.Lactis defectus. Plin. Lacke of milke.Spongiosa lactis densitas. Plin. Lactis fœcunditatem nutricibus facit galactites. Plin. Sinus lactis.Virg. Aquatius lac. Plin Wattle milke.Asininum. Plin. Asse milke.Bubulum lac. Plin. Come milke.Camelinum. Flin. Caprinum. Plin. Circumfusum lac. Plin. Vide CIRCVMFVNUO. Coacti lactis massa.Ouid.A cheese.Dulce lac. Lucret. Equinum. Plin. Ferinum. Oui. Ficulnum. Plin. The milke that is in greene figges.Caseo fertilius est lac bubulum, qum caprinum. Plin. Cowe milke maketh more cheese.Humanum. Plin. Womans milke.Innocentius est lac decoctum. Plin. Milke sod is lesse hurtefull. Largi copia lactis. Virg.Medicatius est lac bubulum. Plin. Cowe milke is more me, dicinable.Merum lac. Lucr. Niueum. Ouid. Nouum. Virg.Ouillum. Plin. Passum. Oui. Pressi copia lactis.Virg.Plentie of cheese.Recens. Plin. Newe milke.Probatissimum est lac, quod in vngue hæret, nec defluit. Pli. Suillum. Plin. Yaccinum. Plin. Auget lac rosmarinum in vino potum. Plinius. Maketh a womans milke encrease.Bibere lac.Ouid. Coagulatur lac in caseum. Plin. Cogere lac in duritiam, Vide CO GO.Coit lac. Plin. Cruddeth.Densatur lac. Plin. Milke waxeth thicke.Depulsus lacte lco. Horat. A lyon whelpe weaned.Lactis vbertatem excitat eugalacton. Plin. Lactis vbertatem facit vitex. Plin. Lactis vbertas puerperis hoc cibo fit. Plin. Immulgere lac. Plin. To milke.Minuitur lac semine circeæ. Plin. Lactis vbertatem mulieribus præstat hæc herba. Plin. Dulci repletur lacte fœmina quum peperit. Lucret. Lactis vbertatem intermissam restituit glaucium. Pli. Restoreth againe womans milke.Lac subducitur aguis.Virg.The lambes bee weaired: or the milke is stollen from the lambes.Omne lac igne spissatur, frigore serescit. Plin. Lac de nucibus dictum.Ouid. Iucundioris disciplinæ cibo ac lacte satiari, per metaphoram. Quint. Lacte, in nominatiuo dixit.Plaut.Lactes. plur. num. fœ, gen. By the opinion of Plinie and moste Phisitions, are the small gutces, by which first the meate passeth out of the stomacke: and is not the part called Melenterium, as Gaza doth interprete it. Probus saieth they bee certaine tender partes vnder the ribbes that can not suffer anie stroke.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lac, lactis (nom. lacte, Enn. ap. Non. 483, 2; Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 85; id. Bacch. 5, 2, 16 Ritschl N. cr. al.; and lact, Aus. Idyll. 12; Mart. Cap. 3, 307; masc. acc. lactem, App. M. 8, p. 214 fin.; 215init.; but dub. in Gell. 12, 1, 17, where Hertz reads lacte), n. [Gr. ga/la, gen. ga/lakt-os], milk. I.Lit.: dulci repletur lacte, Lucr. 5, 814: cum lacte nutricis errorem suxisse, Cic. Tusc. 3, 1, 2: lacte vivere, Caes. B. G. 4, 1: lac mihi non aestate novum, non frigore defit, Verg. E. 2, 22: concretum vimine querno lac, Ov. M. 12, 437: lactis inopia ... abundantia, Col. 5, 12, 2: a lacte cunisque,
from the cradle, from infancy
, Quint. 1, 1, 21: lac pressum,
cheese
, Verg. E. 1, 82: coagulatum, Plin. 23, 7, 64, 128.—Prov.: tam similem quam lacte lacti'st,
as like as one egg is to another
, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 85; cf.: neque lac lacti magis est simile, id. Am. 2, 1, 54; id. Men. 5, 9, 30: lac gallinaceum, chicken's milk, of something very rare, Plin. N. H. praef. 23; Petr. 38, 1: qui plus lactis quam sanguinis habet,
of tender age
, Juv. 11, 68.—B.Trop., for something sweet, pleasant: in melle sunt linguae sitae nostrae atque orationes, lacteque; corda felle sunt lita, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 77: ut mentes ... satiari velut quodam jucundioris disciplinae lacte patiantur, Quint. 2, 4, 5.—II.Transf.A.Milky juice, milk of plants: herbae, nigri cum lacte veneni, Verg. A. 4, 514: herbarum, Ov. M. 11, 606: tenero dum lacte, quod intro est, id. Nux, 95: ficulneum, Col. 7, 8, 1: caprifici, Cels. 5, 7.—B.Milk-white color (poet.): candidus taurus ... una fuit labes; cetera lactis erant, Ov. A. A. 1, 290.
lactes, ium (in sing. lactis, is, only, acc. to Prisc. p. 686, erroneously on account of lactis agninas), f. [root lag-; Gr. lagaro/s; cf. Lat. languidus, laxus], the intestines; esp. the smaller intestines, chitterlings (anteclass. and post - Aug.): ab hoc ventriculo lactes in homine et ove, per quas labitur cibus: in ceteris hillae, Plin. 11, 37, 79, 200: ita cibi vocivitate venio lassis lactibus, i. e.
empty, famished
, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 40: pulmone et lactibus unctis, Pers. 2, 30. —Prov.: adligare canem fugitivom agninis lactibus, said of the employment of a trifling remedy for a great evil, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 85.