A little white clowde. Æreæ nebulæ. Catul. Leues nebulæ. Senec. Atra nebula. Virg. Liuens nebula. Sil. Grauis. Senec. Tenues nebulæ. Auieuus. Humentes nebulæ. Stat. Tristes nebulæ. Stat. Volucres. Ouid. Diluit nebulas Titan. Sil. The sunne putteth away clowdes. Dimouere nebulam. Claud. Campus in cœlum erigit nebulas. Senec. Resoluuntur nebulæ ventis ac sole. Ouid. Obstantes nebulas scindere. Ouid. Velatus nebula, Ouid. Pioguem nebulam vomuêre lucernæ. Pers. Nebula erroris. Iuuen. A myste or clowde of errour.

I. Lit.: fluviis ex omnibus et simul ipsa Surgere de terrā nebulas aestumque videmus, etc., Lucr. 6, 477; Verg. A. 8, 258: tenuem exhalat nebulam, id. G. 2, 217. —Poet., of the clouds: nebulae pluviique rores, Hor. C. 3, 3, 56; Verg. A. 1, 412; 439 (for which, nubes, id. ib. 587; Ov. M. 6, 21. —Of smoke, Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 31.—Of any thing soft or transparent: nebula haud est mollis, atque hujus est, Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 21: desine Inter ludere virgines Et stellis nebulam spargere candidis, Hor. C. 3, 15, 6.— Prov.: nebulae cyathus, of any thing worthless, trifling, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 62.— —Personified = Nephele, Hyg. Fab. 2 and 3.—

B. Transf., a foggy mist, a vapor, cloud: pulveris nebula, Lucr. 5, 253: nebulae dolia summa tegunt, Ov. F. 5, 269: pinguem nebulam vomuere lucernae, Pers. 5, 181; Sil. 6, 281: per nebulam audire, aut scire aliquid, to hear or know a thing indistinctly, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 47; id. Capt. 5, 4, 26 (for which: quasi per caliginem videre, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 2).—

2. A thin, transparent substance; of a thin garment: aequum est induere nuptam ventum textilem, Palam prostare nudam in nebulā lineā, Laber. ap. Petr. 55; of a thin plate of metal, Mart. 8, 33, 3.—

II. Trop., darkness, obscurity: erroris nebula, Juv. 10, 4: nebulae quaestionum, obscure, puzzling questions, Gell. 8, 10 in lemm.: suspicionum nebulae, vague suspicions, Amm. 14, 1, 4.—Of something empty, trifling, worthless: grande locuturi nebulas Helicone legunto, Pers. 5, 7 (for which: nubes et inania captare, Hor. A. P. 230).