Meaning of stagnum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a body of standing water (such as a pond, lagoon, swamp, fen or pool)
   declension-2
2. waters
   declension-2, poetic
3. any pool or lake in general
   declension-2, poetic

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Examples

“Stāgnum ignis.”

A lake of fire.

“Inde, ubi quarta sitim caeli collegerit hora, Et cantu quaerulae rumpent arbusta cicadae, Ad puteos aut alta greges ad stagna jubebo currentem ilignis potare canalibus undam; […] Translation by James B. Greenough, 1900 When heaven's fourth hour draws on the thickening drought, And shrill cicalas pierce the brake with song, Then at the well-springs bid them, or deep pools, From troughs of holm-oak quaff the running wave: […]”

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