imbrifer

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ἐπεὰν νῶτον ὑὸς δελεάσῃ περὶ ἄγκιστρον, μετιεῖ ἐς μέσον τὸν ποταμόν, ὁ κροκόδειλος ἵεται κατὰ τὴν φωνήν, ἐντυχὼν δὲ τῷ νώτῳ καταπίνει → when he has baited a hog's back onto a hook, he throws it into the middle of the river, ... the crocodile lunges toward the voice of a squealing piglet, and having come upon the hogback, swallows it

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

imbrĭfer: ĕra, ĕrum, adj. imber-fero,
I rain - bringing, rainy (poet. and in postAug. prose): Austri, Ov. M. 13, 725: ver, Verg. G. 1, 313: caelum, Col. 5, 5, 4: Nilus, i. e. overflowing, Mart. 1, 62, 5.