mistura: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>mistūra</b>: ([[mix]]-), ae, f. id.,<br /><b>I</b> a mixing, mingling ([[ante]]-[[class]]. and [[post]]-Aug.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[mistura]] immoderata, Varr. ap. Non. 490, 28: rerum, Lucr. 2, 978: unguentorum, Plin. 13, 1, 2, § 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In partic., [[carnal]] [[intercourse]], copulation, [[with]] or [[without]] Veneris: externae Veneris [[mistura]], Luc. 9, 899: cum [[fero]], Plin. 8, 53, 79, § 213.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., concr., a [[mixture]], [[compound]]: eā misturā os perfricatur, Col. 7, 5, 22: vas suppletur, id. 12, 10, 2; 12, 57, 1.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., a mixing, mingling: vitiorum [[atque]] virtutum, Suet. Dom. 3: raram facit mixturam cum sapientiā [[forma]], [[beauty]] is [[seldom]] united [[with]] [[wisdom]], Petr. 94: ex diversis, Quint. 1, 10, 6: mira figurarum, id. 9, 3, 40; cf. id. 9, 2, 37: aliorum generum cum aliis, id. 6, 3, 63: translationum, id. 5, 11, 22: verborum, id. 8, 2, 14.