Matris alvus
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Latin Construction
- ‘The mother's belly.’
Constructions
Preposition constructions
- matris in alvo — (poet.) Hor. [αʹ], Ov. [δʹ]
Loci
- αʹ Ovid, Ibis 221-2:
| quī sĭmŭl | īmpū|rā mā|trīs prō|lāpsŭs ăb | ālvō Cīny̆phĭ|ām fōe|dō || cōrpŏrĕ | prēssĭt hŭ|mūm |
At the same time he, having slithered from the defiled womb of his mother, touched the ground of Cinyps with his filthy body. |
- βʹ Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.224-5:
| ————— ————— —— cūm | prīm(um) īn | lūmĭnĭs | ōrās nīxĭbŭs | ēx āl|vō mā|trīs nā|tūră prŏ|fūdīt |
when nature first brought forth, from the womb of a mother in labor into the realms of light |
- γʹ Horace, Carmina 4.6:
| sēd pălām cāp|tīs grăvĭs, hēu | nĕfās, hēu! nēscĭōs fā|rī pŭĕrōs | Ăchīvīs ūrĕrēt flām|mīs, ĕtĭām | lătēntēm mātrĭs ĭn āl|vō |
But openly, cruel to the captives—oh how dreadful, oh!—he would burn their infant boys with Greek fire, even the one lurking in its mother's womb. |
- δʹ Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.419-421:
| ————— ————— ——— fē|cūndăquĕ | sēmĭnă | rērūm vīvā|cī nū|trītă sŏ|lō cēu | mātrĭs ĭn | ālvō crēvē|rūnt făcĭ|ēmqu(e) ălĭ|quām cē|pērĕ mŏ|rāndō. |
And the fertile seeds of things grew, nourished with living soil as if in a mother's womb, and took on form over time. |
