Periodical

aestus, ūs (archaic gen. aesti, Pac. 97 Rib.; rare form of nom. plur. aestuus). m. [kind. with aestas and Gr. aithô; v. aestas], an undulating, boiling, waving, tossing; a waving, heaving, billowy motion.

Lit.

Of fire; hence, in gen., fire, glow, heat (orig. in relation to its flashing up; while fervor denotes a glowing, ardor a burning, and calor a warming heat; yet it was early used for warming heat;

v. the following example): nam fretus ipse anni permiscet frigus et aestum,

heat and cold are blended, Lucr. 6, 364 (for which calor, id. 6, 368, 371 al.):

multa aestu victa per agros,

id. 5, 1104:

exsuperant flammae, furit aestus ad auras,

Verg. A. 2, 759:

caniculae,

Hor. C. 1, 17, 18; so id. Ep. 1, 8, 5:

labore et aestu languidus,

Sall. J. 51.—In plur.:

neque frigora neque aestus facile tolerabat,

Suet. Aug. 81.—So of midday heat:

aestibus at mediis umbrosam exquirere vallem,

Verg. G. 3, 331 (cf. Cic. Ac. 2, 22: ille cum aestuaret, umbram secutus est).—And of the heat of disease (of [p. 63] wounds, fever, inflammation, etc.): ulceris aestus, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 7, 19:

homines aegri cum aestu febrique jactantur,

Cic. Cat. 1, 13.—

The undulating, heaving motion of the sea, the swell, surge: fervet aestu pelagus, Pac. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 39; hence, meton. for the sea in agitation, waves, billows:

delphines aestum secabant,

Verg. A. 8, 674:

furit aestus harenis,

id. ib. 1, 107:

aestus totos campos inundaverant,

Curt. 9, 9, 18.—In Verg. once of the boiling up of water in a vessel: exsultant aestu latices, Aen. 7, 464.—

Esp., the periodical flux and reflux or ebb and flow of the sea, the tide (cf. Varr. L. L. 9, 19; Mel. 3, 1:

aestus maris accedere et reciprocare maxime mirum, pluribus quidem modis, sed causa in sole lunāque,

Plin. 2, 97, 99); Plaut. As. 1, 3, 6: quid de fretis aut de marinis aestibus dicam? quorum accessus et recessus ( flow and ebb) lunae motu gubernantur, Cic. Div. 2, 14 fin.:

crescens,

Plin. 2, 100, 97, § 219:

decedens,

id. ib.:

recedens,

id. 2, 98, 101, § 220: secundus, in our favor, Sall. Fragm. ap. Gell. 10, 26, 2: adversus, against us, id. ap. Non. 138, 8.—

Trop.

The passionate ferment or commotion of the mind, the fire, glow, ardor of any ( even a good) passion (cf. aestuo, II. A.):

et belli magnos commovit funditus aestus (genus humanum),

has stirred up from their very bottom the waves of discord, Lucr. 5, 1434:

civilis belli aestus,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 47 (cf. id. C. 2, 7, 15):

repente te quasi quidam aestus ingenii tui procul a terrā abripuit atque in altum abstraxit,

Cic. de Or. 3, 36:

hunc absorbuit aestus quidam gloriae,

id. Brut. 81:

stultorum regum et populorum continet aestus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 8:

perstet et, ut pelagi, sic pectoris adjuvet aestum,

the glow of love, Ov. H. 16, 25.—

A vacillating, irresolute state of mind, doubt, uncertainty, hesitation, trouble, embarrassment, anxiely:

qui tibi aestus, qui error, quae tenebrae,

Cic. Div. in Caecin. 14:

vario fluctuat aestu,

Verg. A. 12, 486:

amor magno irarum fluctuat aestu,

id. ib. 4, 532; cf. id. ib. 8, 19:

aestus curaeque graves,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 110.—

In the Epicurean philos. lang. of Lucretius, the undulatory flow or stream of atoms, atomic efflux, as the cause of perception (cf. affluo, I.):

Perpetuoque fluunt certis ab rebus odores, Frigus ut a fluviis, calor ab sole, aestus ab undis Aequoris, exesor moerorum litora propter, etc.,

Lucr. 6, 926; and in id. 6, 1002 sq., the magnetic fluid is several times designated by aestus lapidis.

annus, i, m. [acc. to some, as Corssen, Beitr. 16, for am-nus, from 2. an- am-; or acc. to others, directly from 2. anus, a ring, and kindred to the form appearing, in enoautos, di-enos, tri-enos].

Lit., a circuit, circular course, periodical return: tempus a brumā ad brumam, dum sol redit, vocatur annus;

quod, ut parvi circuli anuli, sic magni dicebantur circites ani, unde annus,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 8 Müll.; cf.

for the same idea: circum tribus actis annis,

Lucr. 5, 883:

anno, qui solstitiali circumagitur orbe,

Liv. 1, 19; 6, 1:

quae (stellae) volvunt magnos in magnis orbibus annos,

Lucr. 5, 644; so Verg. A. 1, 234:

multis solis redeuntibus annis,

Lucr. 1, 311; so Verg. A. 8, 47; cf. also Voss ad Verg. G. 2, 402; and the Heb. = month, from = to renew; hence, a year (consisting among the Rom. orig. of ten months, ending with Dec. and beginning with Mart., but from the time of Numa of twelve):

annos sexaginta natus,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 10:

principio circum tribus actis impiger annis Floret equus,

Lucr. 5, 881:

tempora mutare annorum,

the seasons, id. 2, 170:

anni tempus, Varr, R. R. 1, 46: nemo est tam senex, qui se annum non putet posse vivere,

Cic. Sen. 7, 24:

centum et septem complevit annos,

id. ib. 5, 13 et saep.:

anni fugaces,

Hor. C. 2, 14, 1:

anni mobiles,

id. A. P. 157:

annus piger,

id. Ep. 1, 1, 21:

anni breves,

id. C. 4, 13, 23:

per exactos annos,

id. ib. 3, 22, 6:

initio anni,

Liv. 2, 52:

principio anni,

id. 2, 48:

anno ineunte,

Suet. Calig. 42; id. Tib. 54:

anno exeunte,

Cic. Div. 1, 25:

extremo anno,

Liv. 2, 64:

extremo anni,

Tac. A. 6, 27:

anno circumacto,

Liv. 6, 1:

vertente anno,

Vulg. 2 Reg. 11, 1:

annus totus,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 1:

annus solidus,

a full year, Liv. 1, 19.— Poet.:

pleno anno,

at the close of, Hor. C. 3, 18, 5; Plaut. Stich. 1, 1, 30; id. Men. 2, 1, 9:

nondum centum et decem anni sunt, cum lata est lex,

Cic. Off. 2, 21, 75: lex anno post quam lata sit abrogata, id. Cornel. Fragm. ap. Orell. IV. 2, p. 448.—

Adverb. phrases.

Anno.

A year ago, last year, perusi (for the most part anteclass.;

not used by Cic.),

Plaut. Am. prol. 91:

quattuor minis ego emi istanc anno,

id. Men. 1, 3, 22; id. Truc. 2, 4, 39: utrum anno an horno te abstuleris a viro, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 121, 8; so,

ab anno priore,

Vulg. 2 Cor. 8, 10; and:

ab anno praeterito,

ib. ib. 9, 2.—

A full or whole year, Liv. 3, 39 fin.:

corpus ejus matronae anno luxerunt,

Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 10 fin. (in Livy, instead of it, annum; v. 2. infra).—

In each year, yearly:

uno boum jugo conseri anno quadragena jugera, difficilis tricena justum est,

Plin. 18, 18, 48, § 173.—But in is freq. added when it is related how often a thing happened during the year, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 8:

ter in anno,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 46:

semel in anno,

Vulg. Heb. 9, 7 (cf.:

semel per annum,

ib. Ex. 30, 10) al. (but without in' ter et quater anno, Hor. C. 1, 31, 14:

bis anno,

Plin. 2, 73, 75, § 184).—

Annum, a year, during a whole year:

matronae annum eum luxerunt,

Liv. 2, 7.—

Ad annum, for the coming year, a year hence:

faciendum est ad annum,

Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 92:

quem ad annum tribunum plebis videbam fore,

id. Att. 5, 2.—

In annum.

For a year: prorogatum in annum im [p. 127] perium est, Liv. 37, 2, 11: si quid Est ( gnaws) animum, differs curandi tempus in annum? Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 39:

provisae frugis in annum Copia,

id. ib. 1, 18, 109.—

In the next year, the next year:

quod stercoratione faciunt in annum segetes meliores,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 12.—

Per annos, year by year, yearly:

arva per annos mutant, et superest ager,

Tac. G. 26; so,

per omnes annos,

Vulg. Lev. 16, 34; ib. Luc. 2, 41.—

Omnibus annis, all the years, always, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 21.—

Transf.

Poet., a part of a year, a season of the year:

nunc frondent silvae, nunc formosissimus an-nus,

now the forest is clothed with verdure, now the year is most beautiful, Verg. E. 3, 57; so,

pomifer annus,

Hor. C. 3, 23, 8:

hibernus annus,

id. Epod. 2, 29: Pisaeumque domus non aestuat annum, i. e. the summer (in which season of the year the Olympic games were celebrated at Pisa), Stat. S. 1, 3, 8.—

The produce of the year ( poet. or in post-Aug. prose; cf.

annona, I.),

Luc. 9, 437:

agricolae annum flevere,

id. 3, 452; 3, 70; Stat. Th. 4, 710; Val. Fl. 5, 424:

nec arare terram aut exspectare annum,

Tac. G. 14, ubi v. Rup.; cf. Schwarz ad Plin. Pan. 29.—

Time of life ( poet.):

Dum vernat sanguis, dum rugis integer annus,

while your years are free from wrinkles, Prop. 5, 5, 59:

vitae longus et annus erit,

the years of life, id. 3, 7, 38.—

In polit. life, the age to which one must attain in order to be appointed to an office (cf. annalis, II.):

quod hoc honore me adfecistis primā petitione, quod anno meo,

Cic. Agr. 2, 2:

subito reliquit annum suum seseque in annum proximum transtulit,

id. Mil. 9, 24:

qui anno suo petierint,

id. ib. 9, 24; id. Att. 1, 1; id. Fam. 10, 25.—

In astronomy: annus magnus or mundanus, the period of time in which the constellations return to the same place; acc. to Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 11, 15,000 years; v. Cic. N. D. 2, 20; Tac. Or. 16; and Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 2, 31, 102.

circŭĭtus, a, um, Part., from circumeo.

circŭĭtus ( circŭmĭtus, Cic. N. D. 1, 12, 29; 2, 62, 155; 2, 19, 49; id. Rep. 1, 29, 45; Quint. 1, 10, 42 al.; cf. circumeo, and v. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 737), ūs, m. [circumeo] (class. in prose and poetry).

A going round, a circling, revolving, a revolution:

solis,

Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49; cf. Plin. 2, 23, 21, § 86; Cic. Rep. 6, 12, 12:

nox et dies unum circumitum orbis efflcit,

id. Univ. 9 prope med.:

Asiae Syriaeque circuitu Aegyptum petit,

Suet. Aug. 17:

mundi,

Plin. 2, 5, 4, § 11.—

In medic. lang., the periodical return of a disease, Cels. 3, 5; Ser. Samm. 95.—Far more freq.,

Meton.

(Abstr. pro concr.). A circuit, compass, a way around:

plurimum refert, cujus sit formae ille circuitus,

Quint. 1, 10, 40; cf. id. 1, 10, 42; 1, 5, 26; Augur. ap. Gell. 13, 14, 1:

collis, quem propter magnitudinem circuitus opere circumplecti non poterant,

Caes. B. G. 7, 83:

illi operibus vincebant, quod interiore spatio minorem circuitum habebant,

id. B. C. 3, 44:

XV milia passuum circuitu amplexus,

id. ib.; so id B G. 1, 41; Plin. 4, 12, 19, § 54:

brevi per mon tes circuitu praemissis, qui munirent viam,

Liv. 34, 28, 2; 4, 27, 8; Curt. 3, 11, 19:

qualis esset natura montis et qualis in circuitu ascensus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 21; 2, 29; 2, 30:

longo circuitu petere regiones,

id. ib. 7, 45; Verg. A. 11, 767:

saevaque circuitu curvantem bracchia longo, Ov M. 2, 82: circumitus Siciliae quid tibi novi ostenderit,

Sen. Ep. 79, 1.—

= ambitus, an open space left around a building, Varr. L. L. 5, § 22; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p 5, 4 Müll.; Inscr Marin. Fratr. Arval. p. 369.—

Trop

In rhet., a period: in toto circuitu illo orationis, quem Graeci periodon, nos tum ambitum, tum circuitum, tum comprehensionem, aut continuationem aut circumscriptionem dicimus, Cic. Or. 61, 204; cf.

Quint 9, 4, 124: modo ne circuitus ipse verborum sit aut brevior quam aures exspectent, aut longior, etc.,

Cic. de Or 3, 49, 191; 3, 51, 198; id. Or. 23, 78; Quint. 8, 6, 59; 11, 1, 6. —In plur.:

oratio longiores habet saepe circuitus,

Quint. 9, 4, 60.—

In the postAug. per., a circumlocution, periphrasis, a roundabout way in speech or action; an indirect procedure.

Of speech, ea, quae proprie signari poterant, circuitu coeperint enuntiare, Quint. 12, 10, 16; 12, 10, 41; 5, 7, 16;

10, 1, 12: loqui per circuitus,

Mart. 11, 15, 8.—

Of action:

cur circuitu petis gloriam, quae ad manum posita est?

Curt. 9, 3, 14: negavi circuitu agendum, sed plane jure civili dimicandum, Petr 13 fin.

conversĭo, ōnis, f. [id.], a turning round, revolving, revolution (class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

caeli,

Cic. Div. 2, 42, 89; id. Univ. 6 med.; id. Rep. 6, 18, 18:

astrorum omnesque motus,

id. Tusc. 1, 25, 62; cf. id. N. D. 2, 19, 49:

caelestes,

id. Leg. 1, 8, 24.—Hence,

The periodical return of the seasons, caused by the revolution of the heavenly bodies:

mensium annorumque,

Cic. Univ. 14 fin. —

Esp., in medic. lang.,

A turning round, inverting:

vesicae,

Plin. 8, 42, 67, § 166.—In plur.:

vulvae,

Plin. 24, 7, 23, § 39.—

An abscess, Col. 6, 17, 6.—

Trop.

In gen., subversion, alteration, change:

conversio et perturbatio rerum,

Cic. Fl. 37, 94; cf. id. Div. 2, 2, 6:

moderatio et conversio tempestatum,

id. Fl. 13, 31 fin. —

Esp., in rhet.,

The change or transfer from one species of composition to another, Quint. 10, 5, 4.—

The repetition of the same word at the end of a clause, antistrophê or epiphora, Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 207; Quint. 9, 1, 33 sq.; Auct. Her. 4, 13, 19 med. —

The rounding of a period, kampê, sustrophê:

sic enim has orationis conversiones Graeci nominant,

Cic. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

ut (oratio) conversiones habeat absolutas,

id. ib. 3, 49, 190.—

A moral change, conversion (late Lat.), Alcim. Avit. 6, 49; esp. with ad:

ad verum Deum, Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 33: ad unum verum Deum sanctumque,

id. ib. 8, 24, 2.—

A change of view or opinion:

tanta conversio consecuta est,

Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 18.

typĭcus, a, um, adj., = tupikos, figurative, typical:

typicus Moses (Christus),

Sedul. 3, 208:

cruor,

id. 1, 192.—

Periodical, recurring at intervals:

tremor,

Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 15, 95:

accessiones,

id. Tard. 3, S, 118. [p. 1922]

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