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lactĕo, ēre (used almost exclusively in the part. pres.), v. a. [lac].

  1. I. To suck milk, to be a suckling: Romulus parvus atque lactens, uberibus lupinis inhians, Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 19; so, lactens Juppiter puer, id. Div. 2, 41, 85: vitulus, Ov. M. 2, 624; 10, 227: lactens hostia, Cic. Leg. 2, 12, 29; also absol.: lactentibus rem divinam facere, Liv. 37, 3.
    Poet.: viscera lactentia, i. e. sucking children, sucklings, Ov. F. 6, 137.
    Of the spring: tener et lactens (sc. annus), Ov. M. 15, 201.
  2. II. To contain milk or sap, to be milky, sappy, juicy: verno tempore, cum lactent novella virentia, Pall. 3, 26; cf.: nam sata, vere novo, teneris lactentia sucis, Ov. F. 1, 351: frumenta in viridi stipula lactentia turgent, Verg. G. 1, 315: lactuca lactens, Plin. 20, 7, 26, § 67.
    Subst.: lactentĭa, ium, n., milk-food, milk-dishes, Cels. 2, 28.

lactĕus, a, um, adj. [lac].

  1. I. Of milk, milky; full of milk (mostly poet.).
    1. A. Lit.: umor, Ov. M. 15, 79: ubera, Verg. G. 2, 525.
    2. B. In partic., milk-drinking, sucking: vernae, Mart. 3, 58, 22: porcus, id. 3, 47, 12.
  2. II. Transf., milk-white, milkcolored, milky: colla, Verg. A. 8, 660: cervix, id. ib. 10, 137: gemma, Mart. 8, 45, 2: circulus, the Gr. γαλαξίας κύκλος, the Milky Way, Cic. Rep. 6, 16, 16; also, via, Ov. M. 1, 168.
    1. B. Illa Livi lactea ubertas, pure, Quint. 10, 1, 32.