inguen

I. the front part of the body between the hips.

I. Lit.

A. The groin.— Sing., Cels. 7, 20: lentum destillat ab inguine virus, Verg. G. 3, 281; more freq. plur.: candida succincta inguina (Scylla), id. E. 6, 75: ventrem atque inguina hausit, Liv. 7, 10, 10; Cels. 3, 5 al.—

B. The privy members, Ov. F. 2, 346; Hor. S. 1, 2, 26; 116; Juv. 6, 370 al.—

C. A swelling in the groin, Lucil. ap. Fest. p. 360 Müll.; Cels. 3, 5; also a swelling on the knee, Fronto ad Marc. Caes. 5, ep. 44 Mai.—

D. The abdomen: legenti suffodit inguina, Suet. Dom. 17; Stat. Th. 6, 900. —

II. Transf., of plants, the place where a branch is joined to the stem, Plin. 16, 36, 65, § 163; 17, 21, 35, § 153.