lānĕus, a, um, adj. [id.], woollen, of wool. I.Lit.: pallium, Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 83: culcita ob oculos, Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 42: infula, Verg. G. 3, 487: thorax subuculae, Suet. Aug. 82: coma flaminis, i. e.
his woollen fillet
, Stat. S. 5, 3, 183: effigies, little woollen figures which were distributed at the Compitalia, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 121 Müll.— Prov.: dii irati laneos pedes habent, i. e.
the vengeance of the gods comes unperceived
, Macr. S. 1, 8, 5; Petr. 44, v. 789.—II.Transf.A.Covered with a woolly sub stance, downy; of fruits: pira corio laneo, Plin. 15, 15, 16, 55 (Jahn et Corrolana).— B.Soft like wool, woolly: lupus,
a kind of fish
, Mart. 13, 89, 1: latusculum, Cat. 25, 10. langa, ae, f. [Celtic], a kind of lizard, from whose urine the stone called langurium (lyncurium) was said to be produced, Plin. 37, 2, 11, 34.