proper noun
Lactans
Meaning
- the god of milky growth in corn
Lactans, ntis, m. lac,
I. the god of milky growth in corn: Lactantem deum esse qui se infundit segetibus, et eas facit lactescere, Varr. ap. Sen. Verg. G. 1, 315.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
lactāns
P. of 1 lacto.