Media alvus
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Latin Construction
- The middle of the belly.
Constructions
Preposition constructions
- media tenus alvo — (poet.) Ov. [αʹ], [βʹ], [γʹ]; Manil. [δʹ]
Loci
- αʹ prep. Ovid, Fasti 2.145-6:
| iām pŭĕr | Īdāe|ūs mĕdĭ|ā tĕnŭs | ēmĭnĕt | ālvō, ēt lĭquĭ|dās mīx|tō || nēctărĕ fūndĭt ă|quās. |
Now the boy from Ida is emerging, waist deep, and pours out the nectar mixed with flowing waters. |
- βʹ prep. Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.11:
| mīrăquĕ | rēs, sŭbĭ|tō mĕdĭ|ā tĕnŭs | ēxstĭtĭt | ālvō īncīnc|tūs iŭvĕ|nīs flē|xīs nŏvă | cōrnŭă | cānnīs |
Then, something amazing—suddenly a young man stands up, waist deep, wreathed with reeds bent around his new horns. |
- γʹ prep. Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.59:
| Scȳllă vĕ|nīt mĕdĭ|āquĕ tĕ|nūs dēs|cēndĕrăt | ālvō | Scylla came and sank in, waist deep. |
- δʹ prep. Manilius, Astronomica 3.376-7:
| ————— ————— —— nĕqu(e) | ĕ|nīm cīr|cūmvĕnĭt | īllūm rēct(a) ăcĭ|ēs, mĕdĭ|āquĕ tĕ|nūs dīs|tīnguĭtŭr ālvō. |
For a direct glance does not encompass it, but only halfway up its curve can be discerned. |
- εʹ Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.387-389:
| ————— ————— ————— ——— fīt | clāmŏr, ăt | īllūm hāerēn|tēm Pē|lēus ĕt ă|cērbō | vūlnĕrĕ | vīctūm (stābăt ĕ|nīm prŏpĭ|ōr) mĕdĭ|ām fĕrĭt | ēnsĕ sŭb | ālvūm. |
There was a yell, but he was immobilized, defeated by the harsh wound; Peleus, who was standing nearer, stabbed him below the waist with his sword. |
