melted

* * *

con-flo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to blow together, to blow up, stir up.

Of fire, to kindle, light.

Prop.:

ignem,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 59; Plin. 35, 11, 40, §§

138 and 143: incendium,

Liv. 26, 27, 6.—In medic. lang.:

intestina conflata,

inflamed, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 2, 18.—

Trop.

Of the passions, to kindle, inflame:

conflatus amore Ignis,

Lucr. 1, 474:

invidiam inimico,

Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 23; id. Cael. 12, 29; Sall. C. 49, 4:

conjurationem,

Suet. Ner. 36: cf.:

ingens ac terribile bellum,

Vell. 2, 55; cf. Flor. 1, 24, 1.—

In gen., to bring about, effect, accomplish, bring together, raise, procure; to produce, cause, occasion, etc. (a favorite trope in Cic. and the histt.):

quibus ex rebus conflatur et efficitur id, quod quaerimus, honestum,

Cic. Off. 1, 4, 14; cf. id. Cael. 5, 12:

ut una ex duabus naturis conflata videatur,

id. N. D. 2, 39, 100:

saepe ex Malo principio magna familiaritas Conflata est,

Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 36:

rem divitiasque sanguine civili,

Lucr. 3, 70:

sensum communibus motibus,

id. 3, 335; cf.:

consensus conspirans et paene conflatus,

melted together, united, Cic. Lig. 12, 34:

testes odio, invidiā, gratiā, pecuniā,

Quint. 5, 7, 23:

injuriam novo scelere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 1, 1:

exercitum,

id. Phil. 4, 6, 15; Vell. 2, 74, 2; Flor. 3, 19, 10:

pecuniam,

Cic. Sest. 30, 66:

aes alienum grande,

Sall. C. 14, 2; 24, 3:

accusationem et judicium,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 47, § 116; cf.

judicia,

Liv. 3, 36, 8:

egestatem rei familiaris luxuriā,

Flor. 4, 1, 1:

cladem hominum generi,

Lucr. 6, 1091:

alicui periculum,

Cic. Sull. 4, 13:

alicui negotium,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 135:

in se tantum crimen,

id. ib. 2, 2, 29, § 73.—

Meton. (causa pro effectu), to melt, fuse metals, etc., to melt down (most freq. after the Aug. per.):

argentum, aes Cyprium et sulphur in fictili,

Plin. 33, 9, 46, § 131; 7, 56, 57, § 197:

argentum (fulmine),

Sen. Q. N. 2, 31, 1; Dig. 41, 1, 7, § 8:

simulacra ex argento et auro fabricata,

Suet. Ner. 32:

argenteas statuas,

id. Aug. 52; Plin. 34, 6, 14, § 30:

vasa aurea,

Suet. Aug. 71:

coronam auream,

id. Galb. 12:

falces in ensem,

Verg. G. 1, 508:

victorias aureas in usum belli,

Quint. 9, 2, 92: vitrum, i. e. make glass, Hadr. Imp. ap. Vop. Saturn. 8, 6.

dē-cŏquo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a.

To boil away, boil down, diminish by boiling.

Lit.:

usque quo ad tertiam partem decoxeris,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 26;

so acetum ad quartas, ad tertias,

Col. 12, 34; Plin. 22, 25, 69, § 140:

in dimidiam partem,

Col. 12, 24, 1:

aquam,

id. 12, 26:

pars quarta (argenti) decocta erat,

had melted away, passed off into dross, Liv. 32, 2.—

Trop.

With acc., to diminish, repress, consume, waste:

multum inde decoquent anni,

Quint. 2, 4, 7; Plin. 21, 6, 17, § 31:

accensam sed qui bene decoquat iram,

Claud. in Eutrop. 2, 349.— Poet., with a personal object:

hic campo indulget, hunc alea decoquit,

Pers. 5, 57.—

Of personal subjects, to run through the property of one's self or others; to become a bankrupt:

tenesne memoria, praetextatum te decoxisse?

Cic. Phil. 2, 18:

qui primus hoc cognomen acceperit decoxit creditoribus suis,

Plin. 33, 10, 47, § 133.—

To waste away, become impaired, decline:

res ipsa jam domino decoxit,

Col. 11, 1, 28:

quibus (annis) inertiā Caesarum (imperium) quasi decoxit,

Flor. 1, Prooem. 8:

templorum vectigalia cotidie decoquunt,

Tert. adv. Gent. 42:

spero non tibi decoquet ornithon,

Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 16.

To boil, cook.

Lit.:

axungiam fictili novo,

Plin. 28, 9, 37, § 138:

cyathum aceti in calice novo,

id. 32, 7, 25, § 78:

lentem in vino,

id. 22, 25, 77, § 147:

rapa aqua,

id. 18, 13, 34, § 126: olus, * Hor. S. 2, 1, 74 et saep.—Hence,

Part. perf. subst.

dēcocta, ae, f. (sc. aqua), an icy-cold decoction, invented by Nero as a drink, Suet. Ner. 48; Juv. 5, 50; cf. Plin. 31, 3, 23, § 39. With aqua, Mart. 14, 116.—

dē-coctum, i, n., a medicinal drink, potion, Plin. 22, 20, 23, § 49; 27, 12, 84, § 108 al.—

Transf., pass. (acc. to coquo, no. I. b.), to ripen, dry, Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 226; Pall. 1, 34, 7.—

To concoct, fabricate, invent: consilia nefarii facinoris, Decl. M. Posc. Latr.—

Trop.: suavitatem habeat orator austeram et solidam, non dulcem et decoctam, a severe and solid, not a luscious and mellow sweetness (the fig. being taken from wine), Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 104.—Hence, dēcoctĭus, adj. comp. (cf. no. II. B. 2.), riper, of composition; more carefully elaborated:

aspice et haec, si forte aliquid decoctius audis,

Pers. 1, 125.

ex-cŏquo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to boil out, melt out, dry up.

Lit.:

usque coquito, dum dimidium excoquas,

i. e. you boil away, Cato, R. R. 107, 2:

mustum ad dimidium,

Col. 12, 19, 1:

testudinem vino,

to boil thoroughly, Plin. 32, 4, 14, § 38:

glebas melle,

id. 37, 12, 74, § 194:

ferrum (ignis),

i. e. to harden, Ov. M. 14, 712:

harenas admixto nitro in vitrum,

Tac. H. 5, 7:

lapide cremato in caminis donec excoquatur in rubricam,

Plin. 34, 13, 37, § 135:

ignis vitium metallis excoquit,

Ov. F. 4, 786:

omne per ignes vitium,

Verg. G. 1, 88;

hence, excoctum argentum,

i. e. purified, Gell. 6, 5, 9; cf.:

excoxi te, non quasi argentum,

Vulg. Isa. 48, 10:

imagines excoctae flammis,

melted down, Plin. Pan. 52, 5:

excoctum parum habet suci,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 109 Müll.:

terram sol excoquit et facit are,

dries up, Lucr. 6, 962; cf.:

tam excoctam (ancillam) reddam atque atram quam carbo est,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 63.—With an abstr. object: cruditatem Laconicis, qs. to boil out, i. e. to drive out by steam-baths, Col. 1 praef. §

16: excocta maturitas hordei,

i. e. overripe, Plin. 18, 7, 18, § 80.—

Trop.:

malum alicui,

to devise, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 53 (cf. coquo):

mentem,

to plague, vex, Sen. Herc. Fur. 105 (cf. coquo).

saucĭus, a, um, adj., wounded, hurt.

Lit.: omnes saucios Convisit, Att. ap. Non. 398, 4:

multis civibus sauciis,

Varr. ib. 398, 13:

videmus ex acie efferri saepe saucios,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38; so,

too, in milit. lang.,

Caes. B. G. 3, 4 fin.; 5, 36; id. B. C. 3, 75; 3, 78 al.; cf. humorously: saucius factus sum in Veneris proelio: Sagittā Cupido cor meum transfixit, * Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 24:

taurus,

Verg. A. 2, 223:

funesto saucia morsu,

Ov. M. 11, 373:

bracchia direptā saucia fecit acu,

id. Am. 1, 14, 18:

gravissimis vulneribus,

Vulg. 2 Macc. 14, 15.—In a Greek construction:

Haemon Corruit ipse suo saucius ense latus,

Prop. 2, 8, 22 (2, 8, b, 6); cf.:

stat saucia pectus,

Tib. 1, 6, 49.—

In the time of Quintilian freq. in prose: jam vulgatum actis quoque saucius pectus,

Quint. 9, 3, 17.—

Transf., in gen., smitten, injured, enfeebled, ill, sick, distempered, etc. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Of living beings:

gladiatori illi confecto et saucio consules imperatoresque vestros opponite,

Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 24.—Of sick persons:

fato saucia (for which previously, affecta),

Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 31; cf.:

mulier diutino situ viscerum,

App. Mag. p. 318, 21; cf.

also infra, 2.—Of hungry persons: Belua male saucia,

Sil. 15, 789.—Of intoxicated persons:

quid dicat, nescit saucia Terpsichore,

giddy, reeling, Mart. 3, 68, 6:

Galli hesterno mero saucii,

Just. 24, 8, 1:

saucios per noctem opprimit,

id. 1, 8, 8; App. M. 7, p. 195, 16.—

Of things:

(tellus) rastro intacta nec ullis Saucia vomeribus,

wounded, torn, Ov. M. 1, 102:

securi Saucia trabs ingens,

id. ib. 10, 373; cf.:

(janua) nocturnis potorum saucia rixis,

Prop. 1, 16, 5:

malus celeri saucius Africo,

Hor. C. 1, 14, 5:

glacies incerto saucia sole,

weakened, melted, Ov. M. 2, 808:

alvus lubrico fluxu saucia,

attacked, diseased, App. M. 4, p. 144, 3; cf.

supra, 1.: incaluit quoties saucia vena mero,

excited, Mart. 4, 66, 12; cf. supra, 1. —

Trop., wounded, smitten by love (so most freq., as in all languages); cf. supra, I., the passage from Plautus: Medea animo aegra, amore saevo saucia, Enn. ap. Cic. Cael. 8, 18 (Trag. v. 288 Vahl.; a transl. of Erôti thumon ekplageisa, Eurip. Med. prol. 8):

regina gravi jamdudum saucia curā, Vulnus alit venis,

Verg. A. 4, 1:

mens amore,

Lucr. 4, 1044:

vir Pieriā pellice,

Hor. C. 3, 10, 15:

ipse a nostro igne,

Ov. H. 5, 152:

a quo tua saucia mater,

id. R. Am. 5; Tib. 2, 5, 109.—

In gen., wounded, hurt, offended, injured in any way:

subesse nescio quid opinionis incommodae sauciumque ejus animum insedisse quasdam odiosas suspiciones,

Cic. Att. 1, 17, 1:

Juno saucia dictis,

Stat. Th. 1, 248:

saucius dolore multo,

Prud. Cath. 9, 90: Servilius de repetundis saucius, injured, sullied in character, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 3.—

Post-class. with gen.:

Psyche aegra corporis, animi saucia,

App. M. 4, p. 157:

fatigationis hesternae saucius,

id. ib. 2, p. 121:

clientes famae et salutis saucii,

Aus. Prof. 5, 15.