2. lutum (dirt of streets, roads): coenum (mire of bog, morass, etc.): sordes: illuvies (the former, any dirt, e.g., of clothes; the latter especially dirt on the bodies of persons and animals): stercus: fimus: merda (the dung of persons and animals; stercus, simply dung; fimus, as filth; merda, as something contemptible, defiling): quisquiliae (all sweepings, refuse, etc., which one throws away; also figuratively, of useless things): squalor (disgusting dirt, opposed to nitor): situs (dirt contracted by things being never touched or removed; by its being left in a damp place, etc.): paedor (of dirt, as emitting a bad smell; e.g., from neglect of the person): purgamentum (of the impurities that are removed when anything is cleaned). To be covered with dirt, situ squalere: covered with dirt, situ sordidus; obsitus squalore (e.g., vestis). A spot of dirt, macula: to remove spots of dirt, maculas abluere, auferre, emendare, tollere (Plin.). To remove a spot of dirt from anything, maculam auferre de aliqua re; maculam abluere ex aliqua re (by washing it out). To be as cheap as dirt, or dirt cheap, pro luto esse (e.g., annona, Petronius., Sat., 44).