# niveum > I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Man's. —William Blake > [nĭvĕus](https://logeion.uchicago.edu/niveus), a, um, adj. [nix], _of_ or _from snow, snowy, snow-_ (poet.) > > 1. Lit.: aggeribus niveis informis, Verg. G. 3, 354: aqua, _cooled with snow_, Mart. 12, 17, 6; cf. id. 14, 104 and 117: mons, _covered with snow_, Cat. 64, 240.— > > 2. Transf., _snow-white, snowy_ (mostly poet.): a similitudine sic: Corpore niveum candorem, aspectu igneum ardorem assequebatur, Auct. Her. 4, 33, 44: lacerti, Verg. A. 8, 387: lac, id. E. 2, 20: hanc si capite niveae agnae exorari judicas, Sen. Q. N. 2, 36: Briseis niveo colore, Hor. C. 2, 4, 3: vestis, Ov. M. 10, 432: candidior nivei folio, Galatea, ligustri, id. ib. 13, 789: dens, id. H. 18, 18: quā notam duxit niveus videri, Hor. C. 4, 2, 59: panis, Juv. 5, 70: flumen, _clear, pellucid_, Sen. Hippol. 504: undae, Mart. 7, 32, 11: tribuni, _clothed in white togas_, Calp. Ecl. 7, 29; so, Quirites, Juv. 10, 45. ## Pressestimmen > das ist ja pure poesie —[riotbib](https://github.com/riotbib/) > Deine Configs sind wunderschön <3 —[flxai](https://github.com/flxai/) ## To do - [ ] `services.xserver.xkb.extraLayouts`