alvei

But the infusion of the supernatural efficacy into these "alvei" depends on an act of the appointed official; through whom alone the divine matter -- no longer choked up -- can have free currency into the persons of believers.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

He held the _cura alvei Tiberis et riparum et cloacarum urbis_ probably from 105 to 107 A.D. See Pliny's chief inscription (below), and cf.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

[Footnote 765: 'Praetoriorum luminibus decenter ornata.'] [Footnote 766: So Claudian (De VI Consolata Honorii 196), 'et Addua visu caerulus.'] [Footnote 767: 'Ut nomen retinens et colorem in Septentrionem obesiore alvei ventre generetur.'] 'So delightful a region makes men delicate and averse to labour.

The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872