aestate+affectā

aestas, ātis, f. [akin to aithô = to burn, Varr. L. L. 6, § 9; cf.: aestus, aether, aethra; Sanscr. indh = to kindle, iddhas = kindled; O. H. Germ. eiten = to heat; Germ. Hitze = heat], in an extended sense, the summer season, as one half of the year, from March twenty-second to September twenty-second (the other half was hiems, the winter season); cf. Dig. 43, 19:

aestas et hiems, nox et dies,

Vulg. Gen. 8, 22: in a restricted sense, the summer, the three months from the entrance of the sun into Cancer to the autumnal equinox (the entrance into Libra):

Arabes campos et montes hieme et aestate peragrantes,

Cic. Div. 1, 42:

(formica) parat in aestate cibum sibi,

Vulg. Prov. 6, 8:

aestate ineunte,

at the beginning of summer, Cic. Att. 4, 2:

nova,

Verg. A. 1, 430:

media,

midsummer, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 35:

jam adulta,

Tac. A. 2, 23; so Aur. Vict. Caes. 32, 3 Arntz.:

summa,

the height of summer, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 31:

exacta,

Sall. J. 65:

finita,

Vulg. Jer. 8, 20: cum affecta jam prope aestate uvas a sole mitescere tempus est, Cic. Oecon. ap. Non. 161, 2.—

With anni,

summer-time, Gell. 2, 21:

aestate anni flagrantissima,

id. 19, 5.—Since war among the ancients was carried on only in summer, aestas is sometimes (like theros in Gr.) used by the histt. for,

A year, Vell. 2, 47; 82:

quae duabus aestatibus gesta,

Tac. A. 6, 39;

so. te jam septuma portat omnibus errantem terris aestas,

Verg. A. 1, 756.—

Summer air:

per aestatem liquidam,

Verg. G. 4, 59; id. A. 6, 707.—

Summer heat:

ignea,

Hor. C. 1, 17, 3.—

Freckles as caused by heat:

aestates,

Plin. 28, 12, 50, § 185, where Jan. reads testas.