Definition of illuvies, inluvies
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LNS
illuviēs, illuviēī
(inluviēs, inluviēī)
inluo
noun (f., 5th declension)
  1. Dirt, filth, uncleanness
  2. An overflowing, inundation
Abbreviations
illuvies (inl-), ēi, f. in-luo. Dirt, filth, uncleanness of the body (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: alluvies, diluvies, colluvies, proluvies; squalor, sordes, paedor): hic cruciatur fame, frigore, illuvie, imbalnitie, imperfundie, incuria, Lucil. ap. Non. 126, 2; 125, 31; Varr. ib. 34; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 54: pectus illuvie scabrum, Cic. poet. Tusc. 3, 12, 26: illuvie ac squalore obsitus, Tac. A. 4, 28: illuvie deformis, id. H. 4, 46: morbo illuvieque peresa vellera, Verg. G. 3, 561: oris, Dig. 21, 1, 12.

—As a term of reproach: di te perdant ... oboluisti allium, Germana illuvies, hircus, hara suis, you perfect beast, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 39.

— An overflowing, inundation (postclass.): aquarum, Just. 2, 1, 6; 2, 6, 10: placida, i. e. the water that has overflowed, Tac. A. 12, 51: imber campos lubricos fecerat, gravesque currus illuvie haerebant, in the mud, Curt. 8, 14, 4.
 
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