Ex alvo

Latin Construction

ex alvo.

1. From the belly.

Constructions

no characteristic constructions

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, In Pisonem fragm.:

Te tua illa nescio quibus a terris apportata mater pecudem ex alvo, non hominem effuderit.

That mother of yours, I don't know what country she was brought in from to have spilled you out from her belly a beast, not a man.

• βʹ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.55:

Ex intestinis autem et alvo secretus a reliquo cibo sucus is, quo alimur permanat ad iecur.

It is from the intestines and the stomach, though, that the fluid that nourishes us, secreted from the remainder of our food, passes through to the liver.

• γʹ Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.224-5: