Meaning of viscus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. organ (any internal organ of the body)
   declension-3, plural
2. entrails, viscera, bowels, internal organs
   declension-3, plural
3. the innermost part of something, as the heart and vital organs are to the body
   declension-3, figuratively, plural

Equivalents

Examples

“terra fabās tantum dūraque farra dabat. quae duo mixta simul sextīs quīcumque Kalendīs ēderit, huic laedī vīscera posse negant. The land yielded only beans and hard far. Whoever, on the Kalends of the sixth [months], eats these two [foods] mixed together, they say no harm will [come] to this [person’s] bowels. (The first day of June was the Kalendae fabariae or Bean-Kalends.)”

“Quodsī ex tantō latrōciniō iste ūnus tollētur, vidēbimur fortasse ad breve quoddam tempus cūrā et metū esse relevātī, perīculum autem residēbit et erit inclūsum penitus in vēnīs atque in vīsceribus reī pūblicae.”

But if that single individual is removed from such a great band of brigands, we shall perhaps seem to be relieved of our worry and fear for a certain short time, but the danger will remain and will be shut up deeply within the veins and in the bowels of the Republic.

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