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λύχνον μεθ' ἡμέραν ἅψας περιῄει λέγων ἄνθρωπον ζητῶ → he lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, I am looking for a man

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ningit: or ninguit, ēbat, nxit, 3, v. n. Gr. νίφει; cf. nix, and v. Serv. Verg. A. 4, 250,
I it snows.
I Lit.: ningit, Col. 11, 2, 31; Verg. G. 3, 367: cum ninxerit caelestium molem mihi, Att. ap. Prisc. p. 882 P. (Trag. Rel. v. 101 Rib.).—
   (b)    In the pass. form: totum istud spatium, quā pluitur et ninguitur, App. Flor. 1, p. 340, 39.—*
II Transf., to shower down, scatter: ningunt rosarum Floribus, Lucr. 2, 627.