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1 aerius
I.Pertaining to the air, aërial (a poet. word, which Cic. uses only in higher flights of speech):II.volucres,
Lucr. 5, 825; Cic. Univ. 10:volatus avium atque cantus,
id. Top. 20:aërias vias carpere,
their way in the air, Ov. A. A. 2, 44: aërias tentăsse domos, the heavens, * Hor. C. 1, 28, 5 al.—Hence aërium mel, because the bee was believed to collect its honey from falling dew, Verg. G. 4, 1. —Rising aloft, airy, high. —So esp. of mountains:* B.Alpes,
Verg. G. 3, 474; Ov. M. 2, 226:aërio vertice Taurus,
Tib. 1, 7, 15 ( aetherio, Müll.):cacumen,
Cat. 64, 240 al. —Of trees:quercus,
Verg. A. 3, 680:ulmus,
id. E. 1, 59.—Of other things:arces,
Verg. A. 3, 291:(capra) cornibus aëriis,
Ov. F. 5, 119.—
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