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a small stream of water

  • 1 rivus

    rīvus, i, m. [root ri- (li-), to flow, drop; Gr. limnê;cf. liris; Sanscr. rīna, flowing; cf. ripa], a small stream of water, a brook (cf.: fluvius, amnis).
    I.
    Lit.: rivus est locus per longitudinem depressus, quo aqua decurrat, cui nomen est apo tou rhein, Dig. 43, 21 (de rivis), 1:

    rivorum a fonte deductio,

    Cic. Top. 8, 33:

    prostrati in gramine molli Propter aquae rivum,

    by a waterbrook, Lucr. 2, 30; so,

    aquae,

    id. 5, 1392; Hor. C. 3, 16, 29; cf. Inscr. Orell. 51:

    omnia flumina atque omnes rivos, qui ad mare pertinebant, etc.,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 49; 3, 37; cf. 3, 88 fin.; Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 7:

    pronus,

    id. ib. 1, 10, 21; id. C. 1, 29, 11:

    mobiles,

    id. ib. 1, 7, 14; cf.

    celeres,

    id. ib. 3, 11, 14:

    gelidi,

    id. ib. 3, 13, 7; id. Ep. 1, 18, 104:

    claudite jam rivos,

    Verg. E. 3, 111:

    tenuis fugiens per gramina rivus,

    id. G. 4, 19.—Prov.: e rivo flumina magna facere, to magnify an insignificant object; or, as we say, to make a mountain of a mole-hill, Ov. P. 2, 5, 22.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    An artificial water-course, channel, canal, Dig. 7, 1, 61; 8, 3, 15; 8, 4, 11.—
    b.
    A gutter, Vitr. 8, 6 (7), 1 al.—
    2.
    Of other liquids, a stream, etc. (mostly poet.):

    manabat venis ferventibus argenti rivus et auri,

    Lucr. 5, 1256:

    lactis uberes,

    Hor. C. 2, 19, 11:

    sanguinis,

    Verg. A. 11, 668; Liv. 26, 23; Curt. 4, 9, 13:

    sudoris,

    Verg. A. 5, 200:

    lacrimarum,

    Ov. M. 9, 655:

    ignium,

    Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 236:

    rivis currentia vina,

    Verg. G. 1, 132.—
    II.
    Trop., a stream (very rare;

    v. rivulus, II.): liquidus fortunae rivus,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 9: facundiae rivus, Lact. Opif. Dei, 20 fin.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > rivus

  • 2 aquola

    ăquŭla (archaic, ăquŏla; ăcŭla), ae, f. dim. [id.], a little water, a small stream of water (perh. only in the foll. exs.): suffundam aquolam, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 3 Fleck.; id. Cist. 3, 2, 38:

    quae (umbra) mihi videtur non tam ipsā aquulā, quae describitur, quam Platonis oratione crevisse,

    i. e. the Ilissus, Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 28, where Ellendt and Sorof write acula; v. aqua init. — Trop.:

    non seclusa aliqua aquula, sed universum flumen,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 2, 39.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > aquola

  • 3 aquula

    ăquŭla (archaic, ăquŏla; ăcŭla), ae, f. dim. [id.], a little water, a small stream of water (perh. only in the foll. exs.): suffundam aquolam, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 3 Fleck.; id. Cist. 3, 2, 38:

    quae (umbra) mihi videtur non tam ipsā aquulā, quae describitur, quam Platonis oratione crevisse,

    i. e. the Ilissus, Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 28, where Ellendt and Sorof write acula; v. aqua init. — Trop.:

    non seclusa aliqua aquula, sed universum flumen,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 2, 39.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > aquula

  • 4 aquula

        aquula ae, f dim.    [aqua], a little water, small stream.
    * * *
    small amount of water; small stream

    Latin-English dictionary > aquula

  • 5 acula

    small amount of water; small stream; little needle (L+S)

    Latin-English dictionary > acula

  • 6 aquola

    small amount of water; small stream

    Latin-English dictionary > aquola

  • 7 haustus

        haustus ūs, m    [HAVS-], a drawing: puteus facili diffunditur haustu, Iu.: aquae haustus, the right of drawing.—A drinking, swallowing, drawing in, drink, draught: exiguis haustibus bibi, in small draughts, O.: haustu sparsus aquarum, V.: aquae, O.: sanguinis, i. e. stream, O.: Esse apibus haustūs Aetherios, i. e. breath, V.: peregrinae harenae, a handful, O.: Pindarici fontis qui non expalluit haustūs, i. e. to imitate, H.
    * * *
    drink; draught; drawing (of water)

    Latin-English dictionary > haustus

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