sanguinolentus

sanguĭnŏlentus (collat. form san-guĭlentus, Scrib. Comp. 182), a, um, adj. [sanguis]

I.

Lit., full of blood, bloody (class., but, like sanguineus, mostly poet.; not in Cic.): torques, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 13, 18; so,

soror,

Tib. 2, 6, 40:

pectora,

Ov. H. 3, 50:

ille,

id. F. 4, 844:

Erinys,

id. H. 6, 46:

(Curetes) inter se armis Ludunt in numerumque exsultant sanguinolenti,

Lucr. 2, 631;

v. Lachm. ad h. l.: Allia...vulneribus Latiis,

Ov. A. A. 1, 414: seditiones, Varr. ap. Non. 465, 33.—

B.

Transf., bloodred:

color,

Ov. Am. 1, 12, 12.—

II.

Trop., full of blood, bloody, sanguinary:

palma,

Auct. Her. 4, 39, 51: centesimae, qs. bloodsucking, Sen. Ben. 7, 10, 3:

littera,

i. e. offensive, injurious, Ov. Ib. 4.