ūmĭdum

ūmĭdus (less correctly hū-), a, um, adj. [umeo].

Prop., moist, humid, damp, dank, wet (freq. and class.):

simplex est natura animantis, ut vel terrena sit vel ignea vel animalis vel umida,

Cic. N. D. 3, 14, 34; cf.:

terrena et umida,

id. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:

tellus,

Lucr. 2, 873; so,

terra,

id. 6, 1100:

ignem ex lignis viridibus atque umidis facere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 16, § 45; cf.:

(naves) factae subito ex umidā materiā,

Caes. B. C. 1, 58:

saxa,

Lucr. 5, 948 sq.:

linguaï templa,

id. 4, 622:

lumina,

Ov. M. 9, 536:

creta,

Hor. Epod. 12, 10:

quanto umidius est solum,

Col. 4, 19, 2:

ager uliginosus umidissimus,

Varr. L. L. 5, 5, 9, § 44:

umidissimum cerebrum,

Plin. 11, 37, 49, § 133: subices, Enn. ap. Gell. 4, 17, 14:

nox,

Verg. A. 2, 8:

dies,

Quint. 11, 3, 27:

nulla dies adeo est australibus umida nimbis,

Ov. P. 4, 4, 1:

solstitia,

Verg. G. 1, 100:

regna,

i. e. of the river, id. ib. 4, 363: caedunt securibus umida vina, i. e. formerly liquid (now frozen), id. ib. 3, 364 Heyn.:

caligo, quam circa umidi effuderant montes,

Curt. 4, 12, 20:

maria,

Verg. A. 5, 594:

mella,

id. ib. 4, 486:

umidiora et aquosa,

App. Dogm. Plat. 1, p. 9.—As subst.: ūmĭdum, i, n. (sc. solum), a moist, wet, or damp place:

castra in umido locare,

Curt. 8, 4, 13:

pontes et aggeres umido paludum imponere,

Tac. A. 1, 61:

herba in umidis nascens,

Plin. 24, 11, 63, § 104:

Sirius alto Defluit ab caelo mersumque per umida quaerit,

i. e. the ocean, Avien. Arat. 755; cf. Cels. praef. 1.—

Fig., watery, weak:

verba,

Gell. 1, 15, 1.

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cālīgĭnōsus (post-class. cālīgōsus, Mart. Cap. 8, § 803; cf. Kopp. ad id. 1, § 67; Ven. Fort. Carm. 5, 4, 25), a, um, adj. [id.], full of mist, covered with mist, dark, obscure, gloomy (rare, but class. in prose and poetry):

caelum et umidum et caliginosum,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43:

obscurior et quasi caliginosa stella (opp. illustris et pellucida),

id. Div. 1, 57, 130:

tractus,

Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 171:

tenebrae,

Val. Max. 1, 7, ext. 1.—

Trop., dark, uncertain, obscure: nox, i. e. an uncertain future, *Hor. C. 3, 29, 30:

caliginosissima quaestio,

Aug. Ep. 7.— Comp. and adv. not in use.

quaero (old orthogr. QVAIRO, Epitaphs of the Scipios, 6; for the original form and etym. quaeso, ĕre, v. quaeso), sīvi or sĭi, sītum, 3, v. a., to seek.

Lit.

In gen.: aliquem, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 43 Vahl.); Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 3:

te ipsum quaerebam,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 8, 3:

escam in sterquilinio,

Phaedr. 3, 12 init. —

In partic.

To seek to get or procure, to seek or search for a thing, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 38:

rem mercaturis faciendis,

Cic. Par. 6, 2, 46.— Absol.:

contrivi in quaerendo vitam atque aetatem meam,

Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 15; 5, 3, 27; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 57; id. A. P. 170.—

Transf., to get, procure, obtain, acquire a thing:

uxores liberorum quaerendorum causā ducere,

Suet. Caes. 52:

liberorum quaerundorum causā ei uxor data est,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 109; cf.:

quaerunt litterae hae sibi liberos,

id. Ps. 1, 1, 21.—

To seek for something missing, to miss:

Siciliam in uberrimā Siciliae parte,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 18, § 47:

optatos Tyndaridas,

Prop. 1, 17, 18:

Phoebi comam,

Tib. 2, 3, 20:

amnes,

Stat. Th. 4, 703.—

To ask, desire, with ut and subj.:

quaeris ut suscipiam cogitationem quidnam istis agendum putem,

Cic. Att. 14, 20, 4.—

Trop.

In gen., to seek, i. e. to think over, meditate, aim at, plan a thing:

dum id quaero, tibi qui filium restituerem,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 83:

quonam modo maxime ulti sanguinem nostrum pereamus,

Sall. C. 33,5:

fugam,

Cic. Att. 7, 17, 1; id. Mur. 37, 80:

sibi remedium ad rem aliquam,

id. Clu. 9, 27:

de gratiā quid significares, mecum ipse quaerebam,

id. Att. 9, 11, A, 1.—With inf.:

tristitiae causam si quis cognoscere quaerit,

seeks, strives, endeavors, Ov. Tr. 5, 4, 7; id. Am. 1, 8, 51; Hor. C. 3, 4, 39; id. Ep. 1, 1, 2 al.—

In partic.

To look for, seek to gain any thing; to get, acquire, obtain, procure:

laudem sibi,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 74:

salutem alicui malo,

id. Ad. 3, 2, 2:

negabant ullā aliā in re nisi in naturā quaerendum esse illud summum bonum,

Cic. Ac. 1, 5, 19:

pudentem exitum suae impudentiae,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 1, § 2:

invidiam in aliquem,

id. Rab. Post. 17, 46. —

Of inanim. and abstr. subjects, to demand, need, require, = requirere:

quod cujusquam oratoris eloquentiam quaereret,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 10, § 29:

lites ex limitibus judicem quaerant,

Varr. R. R. 1, 15, 1:

bellum dictatoriam majestatem quaesivisset,

Liv. 8, 30:

quaerit Boeotia Dircen,

Ov. M. 2, 239. —

To seek to learn from any one; to ask, inquire, interrogate (cf.: interrogo, percontor).

With ab:

cum ab iis saepius quaereret,

made inquiries, Caes. B. G. 1, 32:

quaero abs te nunc, Hortensi, cum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83, § 191:

quaesivit a medicis, quemadmodum se haberet,

Nep. Dion, 2, 4:

a quo cum quaesisset, quo se deduci vellet,

id. Epam. 4, 5; cf. Cic. N. D. 1, 22, 60. —

With de:

quaerebat paulo ante de me, quid, etc.,

Cic. Pis. 9, 18:

de te ipso quaero, Vatini, utrum, etc.,

id. Vatin. 4, 10:

quaero de te, arbitrerisne, etc.,

Liv. 4, 40:

cura tibi de quo quaerere nulla fuit,

Ov. P. 4, 3, 18.—

With ex:

quaesivi ex Phaniā, quam in partem provinciae putaret, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 1:

quaerit ex solo ea, quae, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18.—

With a rel.-clause:

ille baro te putabat quaesiturum, unum caelum esset an innumerabilia,

Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 3:

natura fieret laudabile carmen, an arte, Quaesitum est,

Hor. A. P. 409:

quaeritur inter medicos, cujus generis aquae sint utilissimae,

Plin. 31, 3, 21, § 31.—

To desire,

With inf. (post-Aug.):

e monte aliquo in alium transilire quaerens,

Plin. 8, 53, 79, § 214:

qui mutare sedes quaerebant,

Tac. G. 2.—

Transf., of animals, plants, etc., to desire, prefer, seek:

salictum et harundinetum... umidum locum quaerunt,

Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 5:

glires aridum locum quaerunt,

id. ib. 3, 15, 2; Col. 1, praef. §

26: lupinum quaerit maxime sabulosa,

Plin. 18, 14, 36, § 134;

so of the soil: ager aquosus plus stercoris quaerit,

demands, Pall. 1, 6, 15.—

To examine or inquire into judicially, to investigate, institute an investigation; with [p. 1502] acc. (rare):

hunc abduce, vinci, rem quaere,

Ter. Ad. 3 (4), 36:

non dubitabat Minucius, quin iste (Verres) illo die rem illam quaesiturus non esset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 29, § 72. —With de and abl. (class.; cf.

Krebs, Autibarb. p. 962 sq.): de pecuniis repetundis,

Cic. Verr. 1, 9, 27:

de morte alicujus,

id. Rosc. Am. 41, 119:

de servo in dominum,

to question by torture, put to the rack, id. Mil. 22, 59:

aliquid per tormenta,

Suet. Tib. 58:

legibus,

to investigate according to the laws, impartially, Plin. Ep. 5, 21, 3. —

Transf.: si quaeris, si quaerimus (prop., if we, or you, look well into the matter; if we, or you, would know the truth), to say the truth, in fact, to speak honestly:

omnino, si quaeris, ludi apparatissimi,

Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2:

at sunt morosi, et anxii, et difficiles senes: si quaerimus, etiam avari,

id. Sen. 18, 65:

si quaeritis,

id. de Or. 2, 62, 254; so,

too, si verum quaeris,

id. Fam. 12, 8, 1:

si verum quaeritis,

id. de Or. 2, 34, 146:

si verum quaerimus,

id. Tusc. 2, 23, 55: noli quaerere or quid quaeris? in short, in one word:

noli quaerere: ita mihi pulcher hic dies visus est,

id. Fam. 4, 4, 3:

quid quaeris? biduo factus est mihi familiaris,

id. ib. 3, 1, 2.— Hence, quaesītus, a, um, P. a., sought out.

In a good sense, select, special, extraordinary (mostly post-Aug.): epulae quaesitissumae, Sall. ap. Macr. S. 2, 9, 9 (Sall. H. 2, 23, 4 Dietsch); comp.:

leges quaesitiores (opp. simplices),

Tac. A. 3, 26:

quaesitior adulatio,

id. ib. 3, 57.— Sup.:

quaesitissimi honores,

Tac. A. 2, 53.—

In a bad sense (opp. to what is natural), far-fetched, studied, affected, assumed (class.):

vitabit etiam quaesita nec ex tempore ficta, sed domo allata, quae plerumque sunt frigida,

Cic. Or. 26, 89:

ut numerus non quaesitus, sed ipse secutus esse videatur,

id. ib. 65, 219:

comitas,

Tac. A. 6, 50:

asperitas,

id. ib. 5, 3.—

Subst.: quaesītum, i, n.

A question ( poet.):

accipe quaesiti causam,

Ov. M. 4, 793; id. F. 1, 278; Hor. S. 2, 6, 82.—

A question as a rhetorical figure, = pusma, Mart. Cap. 5, § 524.

tĕnŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [tenuis], to make thin, slender, meagre, fine, rare; to dilute, rarefy, attenuate, etc. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn.: rarefacio, minuo).

Lit.:

assiduo vomer tenuatur ab usu,

Ov. P. 2, 7, 43:

hoc (tempus) tenuat dentem aratri,

id. Tr. 4, 6, 13:

sol matutinum aëra spissum et umidum ortu suo tenuat,

Sen. Q. N. 5, 3, 2; so,

aëra,

to rarefy, Stat. Th. 1, 338:

auras,

Ov. M. 14, 399:

ipsā autem macie tenuant armenta volentes,

make lean, Verg. G. 3, 129:

tenuatum corpus,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 84:

corpus parvo victu tenuatum,

Tac. A. 15, 63:

exiles videor tenuatus in artus,

Prop. 2, 22 (3, 15), 21:

se in undas,

to dissolve into water, Ov. A. A. 1, 761; so,

artus in undas,

id. M. 15, 551; cf.:

tenuatus in auras, Aëraque umor abit,

id. ib. 15, 246:

vocis via est tenuata,

narrowed, contracted, id. ib. 14, 498:

flumina per multos rivos,

id. R. Am. 445:

chartam interpolatione,

Plin. 13, 12, 23, § 75:

adipes,

Quint. 2, 10, 6:

luna quater plenum tenuata retexuit orbem,

i. e. waning, Ov. M. 7, 531: ne ad [p. 1857] spadonum exilitatem vox nostra tenuetur, Quint. 11, 3, 19; so,

vocem,

id. 11, 3, 32.—

Trop., to make small or trifling, to lessen, diminish, reduce, weaken, enfeeble:

utque meae famam tenuent oblivia culpae,

Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 65:

iram,

id. H. 20, 73:

vires amoris,

id. M. 5, 374:

magna modis tenuare parvis,

to lessen, degrade, Hor. C. 3, 3, 72:

gesta tanti viri enumerando,

Pac. Pan. ad Theod. 5; Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 127:

dicite, quo pariter carmen tenuastis in antro,

have spun out a slight elegiac poem, Prop. 3 (4), 1, 5; cf.:

Maximo carmen tenuare tanto,

Stat. S. 4, 7, 2; v. tenuis, II. B.

ūmĭdus (less correctly hū-), a, um, adj. [umeo].

Prop., moist, humid, damp, dank, wet (freq. and class.):

simplex est natura animantis, ut vel terrena sit vel ignea vel animalis vel umida,

Cic. N. D. 3, 14, 34; cf.:

terrena et umida,

id. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:

tellus,

Lucr. 2, 873; so,

terra,

id. 6, 1100:

ignem ex lignis viridibus atque umidis facere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 16, § 45; cf.:

(naves) factae subito ex umidā materiā,

Caes. B. C. 1, 58:

saxa,

Lucr. 5, 948 sq.:

linguaï templa,

id. 4, 622:

lumina,

Ov. M. 9, 536:

creta,

Hor. Epod. 12, 10:

quanto umidius est solum,

Col. 4, 19, 2:

ager uliginosus umidissimus,

Varr. L. L. 5, 5, 9, § 44:

umidissimum cerebrum,

Plin. 11, 37, 49, § 133: subices, Enn. ap. Gell. 4, 17, 14:

nox,

Verg. A. 2, 8:

dies,

Quint. 11, 3, 27:

nulla dies adeo est australibus umida nimbis,

Ov. P. 4, 4, 1:

solstitia,

Verg. G. 1, 100:

regna,

i. e. of the river, id. ib. 4, 363: caedunt securibus umida vina, i. e. formerly liquid (now frozen), id. ib. 3, 364 Heyn.:

caligo, quam circa umidi effuderant montes,

Curt. 4, 12, 20:

maria,

Verg. A. 5, 594:

mella,

id. ib. 4, 486:

umidiora et aquosa,

App. Dogm. Plat. 1, p. 9.—As subst.: ūmĭdum, i, n. (sc. solum), a moist, wet, or damp place:

castra in umido locare,

Curt. 8, 4, 13:

pontes et aggeres umido paludum imponere,

Tac. A. 1, 61:

herba in umidis nascens,

Plin. 24, 11, 63, § 104:

Sirius alto Defluit ab caelo mersumque per umida quaerit,

i. e. the ocean, Avien. Arat. 755; cf. Cels. praef. 1.—

Fig., watery, weak:

verba,

Gell. 1, 15, 1.