In alvum

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Latin Construction

in alvum.

  1. Into one's belly.
  2. On one's belly.

Constructions

Adjective constructions

Verb constructions

Loci

  • αʹ v. Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.650:
Īpsĕ sĕ|dēns sŏlĭ|ō Tē|rēus sūb|līmĭs ă|vītō
vēscĭtŭr | īnquĕ sŭ|ām sŭă | vīscĕră | cōngĕrĭt | ālvūm 		Seating himself on his ancestral throne, the majestic Tereus feasts, and stuffs his belly with his own flesh and blood.
  • βʹ v. Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.834:
plūsquĕ cŭ|pīt, quō | plūră sŭ|ām dē|mīttĭt ĭn | ālvūm. And the more he dumps into his belly, the more he wants.
  • γʹ v. Plautus, Pseudolus 3.2:
hōc hīc | quĭdem hŏmĭ|nēs tām | brĕvēm | vītām | cŏlūnt
qu(om) hāsc(e) hēr|bās hūj(u)s | mŏd(i) īn | sŭ(om) āl|vōm cōn|gĕrūnt,
fōrmī|dŭlō|sās dīc|tū, nōn | ēssū | mŏdō. 		It's because of this, in fact, that the people here live such short lives, because they stuff their bellies with vegetables like this—they're scary to talk about, much less eat.
  • δʹ adj. Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.208–9:
vīscĕră|qu(e) ēt cār|nēs cūm|qu(e) ālbīs | ōssă mĕ|dūllīs
sēmiănĭ|mēsqu(e) ār|tūs ăvĭ|dām cōn|dēbăt ĭn | ālvūm 		He buried their entrails and their flesh, their white-marrowed bones, and their half-alive limbs in his eager belly.
  • εʹ adj. Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.103-106:
————— ————— —— pōst|quām nōn | ūtĭlĭs | āuctōr
vīctĭbŭs | īnvī|dīt, quīs|quīs fŭĭt | īllĕ lĕ|ōnūm*
cōrpŏrĕ|āsquĕ dă|pēs ăvĭ|dām dē|mērsĭt ĭn | ālvūm,
fēcĭt ĭ|tēr scĕlĕ|rī ——— ————— ————— ————— 		Afterwards, some good-for-nothing entrepreneur, whoever he was, began to despise this food; he filled his eager belly with the meaty feasts of lions, paving the way for sin.
  • στʹ v. Ovid, Ibis 387:
ūt quōs | dēmī|sīt vās|tām Pŏly̆|phēmŭs ĭn | ālvūm like those whom Polyphemus sent down into his massive belly
  • ζʹ Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.574-576:
quēm sī | cūră dĕ|ūm tām | cērtā | vīndĭcăt | īrā,
īpsĕ prĕ|cōr sēr|pēns īn | lōngām | pōrrĭgăr | ālvūm,
dīxĭt, ĕt | ūt sēr|pēns īn | lōngām | tēndĭtŭr | ālvūm. 		If the gods' concern is to avenge it with such certain wrath, I pray that I may myself stretch out, a serpent on a long belly, he said, and he was lengthened, like a serpent on his long belly.
  • ηʹ Vergil, Aeneis 2.50-52:
sīc fā|tūs vălĭ|dīs īn|gēntēm | vīrĭbŭs | hāstām
īn lătŭs | īnquĕ fĕ|rī cūr|vām cōm|pāgĭbŭs | ālvūm
cōntōr|sīt. 		So saying, he swung the massive spear with mighty strength into the beast's side, into the joints of its curved belly.
  • θʹ Manilius, Astronomica 2.253:
————— —— Cān|cēr pătŭ|lām dīs|tēntŭs ĭn &x7c; ālvūm The Crab, stretched out on its wide belly
  • ιʹ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.66:
mox perfecta rapina sensim inde in os reddita in veram alvum ruminantis modo refert. Soon after it has preyed, it brings up into its mouth bit by bit what has been transferred there, and brings it back into its true stomach, after the manner of a ruminant.
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