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an infectious disease, plague, pest, pestilence:
ibes avertunt pestem ab Aegypto: alii aliā peste
absumpti sunt, L.—Destruction, ruin, death: certa, S.: detestabilis: civitatis: servatae a peste
carinae, i. e. from fire, V.: populo pestem
minitantes, L.—A pest, curse, bane: textilis (the
poisoned shirt of Nessus), C. poët.: coluber, Pestis boum, V.:
nec saevior ulla Pestis et ira deūm (the
Harpies), V.: clade et peste sub illā (Nero),
Iu.: quaedam pestes hominum, social pests: corporeae pestes, V.