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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.