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1. 2.aspersus ( adsp-, Jan), ūs, m. [aspergo], a sprinkling upon (used only in the abl., and perh. only in Plin.):calidae aquae adspersu,
Plin. 8, 37, 56, § 134:insecta olei adspersu necantur,
id. 11, 53, 115, § 279:aceti adspersu,
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22 adspergo
1.a-spergo ( adsp-, Ritschl, Jan; asp-, others; in MSS. sometimes aspar-go, v. Cort. ad Luc. 1, 384, and Wagner ad Verg. G. 3, 419, and infra examples from Lucr. and Hor.; cf. 2. aspergo), ersi, ersum, 3, v. a. [spargo].I.Aliquid (alicui rei), to scatter, strew something on something; or of liquids, to sprinkle, spatter over (syn.: adfundo, inicio; never in Ovid, but he often uses the simple spargo).A.Lit.:B.aequor Ionium glaucis aspargit virus ab undis,
Lucr. 1, 719 Lachm.:Ah! adspersisti aquam, Jam rediit animus,
you have dashed water on me, have revived me, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15:Euax, adspersisti aquam,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 13:guttam bulbo (with a play upon the names Gutta and Bulbus),
Cic. Clu. 26, 71:pigmenta in tabulā,
id. Div. 1, 13, 23:corpus ejus adustum adspergunt aliis carnibus,
Plin. 8, 38, 57, § 136:liquor adspersus oculis,
id. 12, 8, 18, § 34:Bubus glandem tum adspergi convenit,
id. 18, 26, 63, § 232:corpus floribus aspersis veneratus est,
Suet. Aug. 18:pecori virus aspergere,
to infect, poison, Verg. G. 3, 419:aspergens cinerem capiti,
Vulg. 2 Reg. 13, 15:huc tu jussos asperge sapores,
Verg. G. 4, 62:Non nihil aspersis gaudet Amor lacrimis,
Prop. 1, 12, 16:sanguinem aspergere,
Vulg. 2 Par. 29, 24:nivem,
ib. Eccli. 43, 19.—Trop.:II.cum clarissimo viro non nullam laudatione tuā labeculam aspergas,
fasten upon, Cic. Vatin. 17, 41:ne qua ex tuā summā indignitate labes illius dignitati aspersa videatur,
id. ib. 6, 15:notam alicui,
Dig. 37, 14, 17 fin. (cf.:allinere notam,
Cic. Verr. 1, 6, 17).—So of an inheritance, to bestow, bequeath something to, to set apart for:Aebutio sextulam aspergit,
Cic. Caecin. 6, 17.— Poet.:alas: lacteus extentas aspergit circulus alas,
Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 175.—In gen., to add to, to join, = adjungere:si illius (sc. Catonis majoris) comitatem et facilitatem tuae gravitati severitatique asperseris,
Cic. Mur. 31 fin.:huic generi orationis aspergentur etiam sales,
id. Or. 26, 87; id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 10:hos aspersi, ut scires etc.,
id. Fam. 2, 16 fin. —Aliquem or aliquid aliquā re (cf. Ramsh. Gr. p. 362; Zumpt, Gr. § 418), to strew some person or thing with something, to splash over, besprinkle, bespatter, bedew, lit. and trop.A.Lit.:B.ah, guttulā Pectus ardens mihi adspersisti (cf. supra, aquam),
Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 28:quas (sedes) nec nubila nimbis Aspergunt,
Lucr. 3, 20:ne aram sanguine aspergeret,
Cic. N. D. 3, 36, 88; so Vulg. 4 Reg. 9, [p. 175] 33; ib. Apoc. 19, 13:sanguine mensas,
Ov. M. 5, 40; and with de:asperget de sanguine ejus (turturis) parietem altaris,
Vulg. Lev. 5, 9:vaccam semine,
Liv. 41, 13:Vinxit et aspersas altera vitta comas,
the sprinkled hair, Prop. 5, 11, 34 (Müller, † acceptas):imbre lutoque Aspersus,
Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 12 K. and H.; Claud. B. Gild. 494:aquā,
Vulg. Num. 8, 7; ib. 2 Macc. 1, 21:hyssopo,
ib. Psa. 50, 9:cinere,
ib. Jer. 25, 34:terrā,
ib. 2 Macc. 10, 25 al.—Trop.:2.(Mons Idae) primo parvis urbibus aspersus erat,
dotted over with, Mel. 1, 18, 2:aures gemitu,
to fill, Val. Max. 3, 3, ext. 1:auditiunculā quādam aspersus, i. e. imbutus,
instructed, Gell. 13, 19, 5:aspersi corda a conscientiā malā,
Vulg. Heb. 10, 22.—Esp., to spot, stain, sully, defile, asperse:hunc tu vitae splendorem maculis aspergis istis?
Cic. Planc. 12, 30; so also absol.:leviter aspersus,
id. Fam. 6, 6, 9:istius facti non modo suspitione, sed ne infamiā quidem est aspersus,
id. Cael. 10; so Liv. 23, 30:aspergebatur etiam infamiā, quod, etc.,
Nep. Alcib. 3 fin.; so Suet. Ner. 3: aliquem linguā, Auct. ad Her. 4, 49, 62:e quibus unus amet quāvis aspargere cunctos, i. e. quibusvis dicteriis perstringere, laedere,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 87 K. and H.aspergo (Merk., Müller, Strüb.; in MSS. sometimes aspargo, Lachm., Rib., e. g. Verg. A. 3, 534, acc. to Non. p. 405, 5, and Vel. Long. p. 2234 P.; v. 1. aspergo), ĭnis, f. (in the ante-class. per. com. acc. to Prisc. p. 658 P.) [1. aspergo].I.A sprinkling, besprinkling (most freq. in the poets, never in Cic., who uses aspersio, q. v.):II.aspergo aquarum,
Ov. M. 7, 108:aquae,
Petr. 102, 15:(Peneus) Nubila conducit, summasque aspergine silvas Impluit,
Ov. M. 1, 572:sanguis virides aspergine tinxerat herbas,
id. ib. 3, 86;3, 683 al.: Aspergine et gelu pruinisque (lapides) rumpuntur,
Plin. 36, 22, 48, § 167:parietum,
the moisture, sweat, upon walls, Cato, R. R. 128; so Vitr. 5, 11, 1, and Plin. 22, 21, 30, § 63.— Trop.:omni culparum aspergine liber,
Prud. Apoth. 1005.—Meton. (abstr. for concr.), that which is sprinkled, drops:hic ubi sol radiis.... Adversa fulsit nimborum aspargine contra,
opposite to the falling rain, Lucr. 6, 525 Lachm.:Objectae salsā spumant aspargine cautes,
the spray, Verg. A. 3, 534:Flammiferā gemini fumant aspergine postes,
Ov. M. 14, 796:maduere graves aspergine pennae,
id. ib. 4, 729:arborei fetus aspergine caedis in atram Vertuntur faciem,
by means of the sprinkled blood, id. ib. 4, 125 al. -
23 aqua
ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;I.aquae, as trisyl.,
Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):B.aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,
Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:pluvialis,
rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,aquae pluviae,
Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,caelestes aquae,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,aquae de nubibus,
Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:fluvialis,
river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,aqua fluminis,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:aquaï fons,
Lucr. 5, 602:fons aquae,
Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,
Verg. A. 11, 495:fluvius aquae,
Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:rivus aquae,
Verg. E. 8, 87:rivi aquarum,
Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:torrens aquae,
ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:fons aquae dulcis,
Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:aquae dulces,
Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,aquae maris,
Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:dulcis et amara aqua,
ib. Jac. 3, 11:perennis,
never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,
Cic. Verr. 4, 107:aqua profluens,
running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,currentes aquae,
Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,aqua viva,
living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:aquae vivae,
ib. Num. 19, 17;and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,
ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,vitae,
ib. Apoc. 22, 17:aquae viventes,
ib. Lev. 14, 5:stagna aquae,
standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:aquae de puteis,
well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:aqua de cisternā,
cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,aqua cisternae,
ib. Isa. 36, 16:aquae pessimae,
ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:aqua recens,
Verg. A. 6, 636:turbida,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:crassa,
ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:munda,
ib. Heb. 10, 22:purissima,
ib. Ezech. 34, 18:aquae calidae,
warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:calida,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;and contr.: calda,
Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,
Cic. Verr. 1, 67:aqua frigida,
cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:frigida,
Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:decocta,
Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—Particular phrases.1.Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—2.Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):3.ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:a.non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,
Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,
Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaïb.sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,
you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:II.cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,
Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—Water, in a more restricted sense.A.The sea:B. C.coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,
on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,
Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:findite remigio aquas!
id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),
Ov. F. 2, 864.—A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:D.alii in aquam caeci ruebant,
Liv. 1, 27:sonitus multarum aquarum,
of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,
along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—Rain:E. 1.cornix augur aquae,
Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,
Ov. F. 3, 286:multā terra madescit aquā,
id. ib. 6, 198:aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,
heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—In gen.:2.ad aquas venire,
Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:aquae caldae,
Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:aquae calidae,
Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:aquae medicatae,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:aquae Salutiferae,
Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.a.Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—b. c. d. (α). (β).In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—(γ). e.Ăquae Cĭcĕrōnĭānae, at Cicero's villa at Puteoli, Plin. 31, 2, 3, § 6.—f.Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—g.Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—h.Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—F.The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,(α).Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—(β).Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—(γ).Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:G.in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,
id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;III.hence, as med. t.,
the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,
Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:decessit morbo aquae intercutis,
Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,
Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l. -
24 Aquae Apollinares
ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;I.aquae, as trisyl.,
Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):B.aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,
Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:pluvialis,
rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,aquae pluviae,
Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,caelestes aquae,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,aquae de nubibus,
Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:fluvialis,
river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,aqua fluminis,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:aquaï fons,
Lucr. 5, 602:fons aquae,
Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,
Verg. A. 11, 495:fluvius aquae,
Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:rivus aquae,
Verg. E. 8, 87:rivi aquarum,
Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:torrens aquae,
ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:fons aquae dulcis,
Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:aquae dulces,
Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,aquae maris,
Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:dulcis et amara aqua,
ib. Jac. 3, 11:perennis,
never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,
Cic. Verr. 4, 107:aqua profluens,
running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,currentes aquae,
Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,aqua viva,
living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:aquae vivae,
ib. Num. 19, 17;and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,
ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,vitae,
ib. Apoc. 22, 17:aquae viventes,
ib. Lev. 14, 5:stagna aquae,
standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:aquae de puteis,
well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:aqua de cisternā,
cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,aqua cisternae,
ib. Isa. 36, 16:aquae pessimae,
ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:aqua recens,
Verg. A. 6, 636:turbida,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:crassa,
ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:munda,
ib. Heb. 10, 22:purissima,
ib. Ezech. 34, 18:aquae calidae,
warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:calida,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;and contr.: calda,
Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,
Cic. Verr. 1, 67:aqua frigida,
cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:frigida,
Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:decocta,
Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—Particular phrases.1.Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—2.Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):3.ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:a.non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,
Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,
Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaïb.sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,
you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:II.cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,
Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—Water, in a more restricted sense.A.The sea:B. C.coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,
on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,
Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:findite remigio aquas!
id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),
Ov. F. 2, 864.—A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:D.alii in aquam caeci ruebant,
Liv. 1, 27:sonitus multarum aquarum,
of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,
along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—Rain:E. 1.cornix augur aquae,
Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,
Ov. F. 3, 286:multā terra madescit aquā,
id. ib. 6, 198:aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,
heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—In gen.:2.ad aquas venire,
Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:aquae caldae,
Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:aquae calidae,
Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:aquae medicatae,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:aquae Salutiferae,
Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.a.Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—b. c. d. (α). (β).In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—(γ). e.Ăquae Cĭcĕrōnĭānae, at Cicero's villa at Puteoli, Plin. 31, 2, 3, § 6.—f.Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—g.Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—h.Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—F.The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,(α).Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—(β).Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—(γ).Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:G.in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,
id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;III.hence, as med. t.,
the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,
Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:decessit morbo aquae intercutis,
Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,
Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l. -
25 Aquae Aureliae
ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;I.aquae, as trisyl.,
Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):B.aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,
Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:pluvialis,
rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,aquae pluviae,
Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,caelestes aquae,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,aquae de nubibus,
Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:fluvialis,
river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,aqua fluminis,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:aquaï fons,
Lucr. 5, 602:fons aquae,
Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,
Verg. A. 11, 495:fluvius aquae,
Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:rivus aquae,
Verg. E. 8, 87:rivi aquarum,
Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:torrens aquae,
ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:fons aquae dulcis,
Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:aquae dulces,
Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,aquae maris,
Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:dulcis et amara aqua,
ib. Jac. 3, 11:perennis,
never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,
Cic. Verr. 4, 107:aqua profluens,
running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,currentes aquae,
Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,aqua viva,
living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:aquae vivae,
ib. Num. 19, 17;and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,
ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,vitae,
ib. Apoc. 22, 17:aquae viventes,
ib. Lev. 14, 5:stagna aquae,
standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:aquae de puteis,
well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:aqua de cisternā,
cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,aqua cisternae,
ib. Isa. 36, 16:aquae pessimae,
ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:aqua recens,
Verg. A. 6, 636:turbida,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:crassa,
ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:munda,
ib. Heb. 10, 22:purissima,
ib. Ezech. 34, 18:aquae calidae,
warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:calida,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;and contr.: calda,
Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,
Cic. Verr. 1, 67:aqua frigida,
cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:frigida,
Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:decocta,
Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—Particular phrases.1.Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—2.Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):3.ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:a.non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,
Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,
Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaïb.sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,
you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:II.cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,
Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—Water, in a more restricted sense.A.The sea:B. C.coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,
on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,
Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:findite remigio aquas!
id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),
Ov. F. 2, 864.—A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:D.alii in aquam caeci ruebant,
Liv. 1, 27:sonitus multarum aquarum,
of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,
along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—Rain:E. 1.cornix augur aquae,
Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,
Ov. F. 3, 286:multā terra madescit aquā,
id. ib. 6, 198:aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,
heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—In gen.:2.ad aquas venire,
Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:aquae caldae,
Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:aquae calidae,
Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:aquae medicatae,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:aquae Salutiferae,
Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.a.Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—b. c. d. (α). (β).In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—(γ). e.Ăquae Cĭcĕrōnĭānae, at Cicero's villa at Puteoli, Plin. 31, 2, 3, § 6.—f.Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—g.Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—h.Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—F.The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,(α).Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—(β).Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—(γ).Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:G.in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,
id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;III.hence, as med. t.,
the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,
Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:decessit morbo aquae intercutis,
Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,
Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l. -
26 Aquae Baiae
ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;I.aquae, as trisyl.,
Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):B.aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,
Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:pluvialis,
rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,aquae pluviae,
Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,caelestes aquae,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,aquae de nubibus,
Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:fluvialis,
river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,aqua fluminis,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:aquaï fons,
Lucr. 5, 602:fons aquae,
Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,
Verg. A. 11, 495:fluvius aquae,
Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:rivus aquae,
Verg. E. 8, 87:rivi aquarum,
Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:torrens aquae,
ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:fons aquae dulcis,
Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:aquae dulces,
Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,aquae maris,
Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:dulcis et amara aqua,
ib. Jac. 3, 11:perennis,
never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,
Cic. Verr. 4, 107:aqua profluens,
running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,currentes aquae,
Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,aqua viva,
living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:aquae vivae,
ib. Num. 19, 17;and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,
ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,vitae,
ib. Apoc. 22, 17:aquae viventes,
ib. Lev. 14, 5:stagna aquae,
standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:aquae de puteis,
well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:aqua de cisternā,
cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,aqua cisternae,
ib. Isa. 36, 16:aquae pessimae,
ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:aqua recens,
Verg. A. 6, 636:turbida,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:crassa,
ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:munda,
ib. Heb. 10, 22:purissima,
ib. Ezech. 34, 18:aquae calidae,
warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:calida,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;and contr.: calda,
Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,
Cic. Verr. 1, 67:aqua frigida,
cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:frigida,
Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:decocta,
Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—Particular phrases.1.Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—2.Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):3.ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:a.non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,
Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,
Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaïb.sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,
you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:II.cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,
Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—Water, in a more restricted sense.A.The sea:B. C.coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,
on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,
Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:findite remigio aquas!
id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),
Ov. F. 2, 864.—A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:D.alii in aquam caeci ruebant,
Liv. 1, 27:sonitus multarum aquarum,
of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,
along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—Rain:E. 1.cornix augur aquae,
Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,
Ov. F. 3, 286:multā terra madescit aquā,
id. ib. 6, 198:aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,
heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—In gen.:2.ad aquas venire,
Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:aquae caldae,
Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:aquae calidae,
Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:aquae medicatae,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:aquae Salutiferae,
Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.a.Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—b. c. d. (α). (β).In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—(γ). e.Ăquae Cĭcĕrōnĭānae, at Cicero's villa at Puteoli, Plin. 31, 2, 3, § 6.—f.Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—g.Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—h.Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—F.The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,(α).Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—(β).Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—(γ).Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:G.in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,
id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;III.hence, as med. t.,
the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,
Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:decessit morbo aquae intercutis,
Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,
Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l. -
27 Aquae Calidae
ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;I.aquae, as trisyl.,
Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):B.aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,
Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:pluvialis,
rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,aquae pluviae,
Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,caelestes aquae,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,aquae de nubibus,
Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:fluvialis,
river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,aqua fluminis,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:aquaï fons,
Lucr. 5, 602:fons aquae,
Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,
Verg. A. 11, 495:fluvius aquae,
Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:rivus aquae,
Verg. E. 8, 87:rivi aquarum,
Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:torrens aquae,
ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:fons aquae dulcis,
Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:aquae dulces,
Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,aquae maris,
Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:dulcis et amara aqua,
ib. Jac. 3, 11:perennis,
never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,
Cic. Verr. 4, 107:aqua profluens,
running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,currentes aquae,
Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,aqua viva,
living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:aquae vivae,
ib. Num. 19, 17;and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,
ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,vitae,
ib. Apoc. 22, 17:aquae viventes,
ib. Lev. 14, 5:stagna aquae,
standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:aquae de puteis,
well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:aqua de cisternā,
cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,aqua cisternae,
ib. Isa. 36, 16:aquae pessimae,
ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:aqua recens,
Verg. A. 6, 636:turbida,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:crassa,
ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:munda,
ib. Heb. 10, 22:purissima,
ib. Ezech. 34, 18:aquae calidae,
warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:calida,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;and contr.: calda,
Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,
Cic. Verr. 1, 67:aqua frigida,
cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:frigida,
Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:decocta,
Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—Particular phrases.1.Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—2.Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):3.ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:a.non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,
Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,
Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaïb.sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,
you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:II.cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,
Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—Water, in a more restricted sense.A.The sea:B. C.coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,
on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,
Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:findite remigio aquas!
id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),
Ov. F. 2, 864.—A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:D.alii in aquam caeci ruebant,
Liv. 1, 27:sonitus multarum aquarum,
of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,
along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—Rain:E. 1.cornix augur aquae,
Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,
Ov. F. 3, 286:multā terra madescit aquā,
id. ib. 6, 198:aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,
heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—In gen.:2.ad aquas venire,
Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:aquae caldae,
Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:aquae calidae,
Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:aquae medicatae,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:aquae Salutiferae,
Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.a.Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—b. c. d. (α). (β).In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—(γ). e.Ăquae Cĭcĕrōnĭānae, at Cicero's villa at Puteoli, Plin. 31, 2, 3, § 6.—f.Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—g.Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—h.Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—F.The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,(α).Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—(β).Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—(γ).Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:G.in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,
id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;III.hence, as med. t.,
the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,
Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:decessit morbo aquae intercutis,
Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,
Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l. -
28 Aquae Ciceronianae
ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;I.aquae, as trisyl.,
Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):B.aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,
Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:pluvialis,
rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,aquae pluviae,
Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,caelestes aquae,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,aquae de nubibus,
Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:fluvialis,
river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,aqua fluminis,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:aquaï fons,
Lucr. 5, 602:fons aquae,
Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,
Verg. A. 11, 495:fluvius aquae,
Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:rivus aquae,
Verg. E. 8, 87:rivi aquarum,
Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:torrens aquae,
ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:fons aquae dulcis,
Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:aquae dulces,
Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,aquae maris,
Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:dulcis et amara aqua,
ib. Jac. 3, 11:perennis,
never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,
Cic. Verr. 4, 107:aqua profluens,
running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,currentes aquae,
Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,aqua viva,
living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:aquae vivae,
ib. Num. 19, 17;and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,
ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,vitae,
ib. Apoc. 22, 17:aquae viventes,
ib. Lev. 14, 5:stagna aquae,
standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:aquae de puteis,
well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:aqua de cisternā,
cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,aqua cisternae,
ib. Isa. 36, 16:aquae pessimae,
ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:aqua recens,
Verg. A. 6, 636:turbida,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:crassa,
ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:munda,
ib. Heb. 10, 22:purissima,
ib. Ezech. 34, 18:aquae calidae,
warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:calida,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;and contr.: calda,
Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,
Cic. Verr. 1, 67:aqua frigida,
cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:frigida,
Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:decocta,
Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—Particular phrases.1.Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—2.Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):3.ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:a.non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,
Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,
Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaïb.sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,
you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:II.cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,
Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—Water, in a more restricted sense.A.The sea:B. C.coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,
on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,
Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:findite remigio aquas!
id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),
Ov. F. 2, 864.—A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:D.alii in aquam caeci ruebant,
Liv. 1, 27:sonitus multarum aquarum,
of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,
along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—Rain:E. 1.cornix augur aquae,
Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,
Ov. F. 3, 286:multā terra madescit aquā,
id. ib. 6, 198:aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,
heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—In gen.:2.ad aquas venire,
Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:aquae caldae,
Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:aquae calidae,
Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:aquae medicatae,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:aquae Salutiferae,
Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.a.Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—b. c. d. (α). (β).In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—(γ). e.Ăquae Cĭcĕrōnĭānae, at Cicero's villa at Puteoli, Plin. 31, 2, 3, § 6.—f.Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—g.Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—h.Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—F.The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,(α).Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—(β).Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—(γ).Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:G.in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,
id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;III.hence, as med. t.,
the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,
Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:decessit morbo aquae intercutis,
Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,
Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l. -
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ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;I.aquae, as trisyl.,
Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):B.aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,
Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:pluvialis,
rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,aquae pluviae,
Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,caelestes aquae,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,aquae de nubibus,
Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:fluvialis,
river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,aqua fluminis,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:aquaï fons,
Lucr. 5, 602:fons aquae,
Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,
Verg. A. 11, 495:fluvius aquae,
Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:rivus aquae,
Verg. E. 8, 87:rivi aquarum,
Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:torrens aquae,
ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:fons aquae dulcis,
Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:aquae dulces,
Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,aquae maris,
Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:dulcis et amara aqua,
ib. Jac. 3, 11:perennis,
never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,
Cic. Verr. 4, 107:aqua profluens,
running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,currentes aquae,
Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,aqua viva,
living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:aquae vivae,
ib. Num. 19, 17;and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,
ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,vitae,
ib. Apoc. 22, 17:aquae viventes,
ib. Lev. 14, 5:stagna aquae,
standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:aquae de puteis,
well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:aqua de cisternā,
cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,aqua cisternae,
ib. Isa. 36, 16:aquae pessimae,
ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:aqua recens,
Verg. A. 6, 636:turbida,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:crassa,
ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:munda,
ib. Heb. 10, 22:purissima,
ib. Ezech. 34, 18:aquae calidae,
warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:calida,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;and contr.: calda,
Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,
Cic. Verr. 1, 67:aqua frigida,
cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:frigida,
Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:decocta,
Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—Particular phrases.1.Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—2.Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):3.ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:a.non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,
Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,
Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaïb.sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,
you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:II.cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,
Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—Water, in a more restricted sense.A.The sea:B. C.coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,
on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,
Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:findite remigio aquas!
id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),
Ov. F. 2, 864.—A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:D.alii in aquam caeci ruebant,
Liv. 1, 27:sonitus multarum aquarum,
of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,
along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—Rain:E. 1.cornix augur aquae,
Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,
Ov. F. 3, 286:multā terra madescit aquā,
id. ib. 6, 198:aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,
heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—In gen.:2.ad aquas venire,
Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:aquae caldae,
Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:aquae calidae,
Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:aquae medicatae,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:aquae Salutiferae,
Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.a.Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—b. c. d. (α). (β).In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—(γ). e.Ăquae Cĭcĕrōnĭānae, at Cicero's villa at Puteoli, Plin. 31, 2, 3, § 6.—f.Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—g.Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—h.Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—F.The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,(α).Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—(β).Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—(γ).Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:G.in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,
id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;III.hence, as med. t.,
the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,
Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:decessit morbo aquae intercutis,
Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,
Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l. -
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ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;I.aquae, as trisyl.,
Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):B.aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,
Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:pluvialis,
rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,aquae pluviae,
Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,caelestes aquae,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,aquae de nubibus,
Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:fluvialis,
river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,aqua fluminis,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:aquaï fons,
Lucr. 5, 602:fons aquae,
Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,
Verg. A. 11, 495:fluvius aquae,
Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:rivus aquae,
Verg. E. 8, 87:rivi aquarum,
Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:torrens aquae,
ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:fons aquae dulcis,
Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:aquae dulces,
Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,aquae maris,
Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:dulcis et amara aqua,
ib. Jac. 3, 11:perennis,
never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,
Cic. Verr. 4, 107:aqua profluens,
running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,currentes aquae,
Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,aqua viva,
living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:aquae vivae,
ib. Num. 19, 17;and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,
ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,vitae,
ib. Apoc. 22, 17:aquae viventes,
ib. Lev. 14, 5:stagna aquae,
standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:aquae de puteis,
well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:aqua de cisternā,
cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,aqua cisternae,
ib. Isa. 36, 16:aquae pessimae,
ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:aqua recens,
Verg. A. 6, 636:turbida,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:crassa,
ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:munda,
ib. Heb. 10, 22:purissima,
ib. Ezech. 34, 18:aquae calidae,
warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:calida,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;and contr.: calda,
Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,
Cic. Verr. 1, 67:aqua frigida,
cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:frigida,
Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:decocta,
Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—Particular phrases.1.Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—2.Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):3.ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:a.non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,
Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,
Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaïb.sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,
you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:II.cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,
Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—Water, in a more restricted sense.A.The sea:B. C.coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,
on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,
Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:findite remigio aquas!
id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),
Ov. F. 2, 864.—A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:D.alii in aquam caeci ruebant,
Liv. 1, 27:sonitus multarum aquarum,
of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,
along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—Rain:E. 1.cornix augur aquae,
Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,
Ov. F. 3, 286:multā terra madescit aquā,
id. ib. 6, 198:aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,
heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—In gen.:2.ad aquas venire,
Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:aquae caldae,
Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:aquae calidae,
Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:aquae medicatae,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:aquae Salutiferae,
Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.a.Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—b. c. d. (α). (β).In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—(γ). e.Ăquae Cĭcĕrōnĭānae, at Cicero's villa at Puteoli, Plin. 31, 2, 3, § 6.—f.Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—g.Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—h.Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—F.The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,(α).Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—(β).Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—(γ).Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:G.in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,
id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;III.hence, as med. t.,
the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,
Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:decessit morbo aquae intercutis,
Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,
Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l. -
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ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;I.aquae, as trisyl.,
Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):B.aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,
Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:pluvialis,
rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,aquae pluviae,
Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,caelestes aquae,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,aquae de nubibus,
Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:fluvialis,
river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,aqua fluminis,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:aquaï fons,
Lucr. 5, 602:fons aquae,
Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,
Verg. A. 11, 495:fluvius aquae,
Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:rivus aquae,
Verg. E. 8, 87:rivi aquarum,
Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:torrens aquae,
ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:fons aquae dulcis,
Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:aquae dulces,
Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,aquae maris,
Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:dulcis et amara aqua,
ib. Jac. 3, 11:perennis,
never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,
Cic. Verr. 4, 107:aqua profluens,
running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,currentes aquae,
Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,aqua viva,
living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:aquae vivae,
ib. Num. 19, 17;and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,
ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,vitae,
ib. Apoc. 22, 17:aquae viventes,
ib. Lev. 14, 5:stagna aquae,
standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:aquae de puteis,
well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:aqua de cisternā,
cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,aqua cisternae,
ib. Isa. 36, 16:aquae pessimae,
ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:aqua recens,
Verg. A. 6, 636:turbida,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:crassa,
ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:munda,
ib. Heb. 10, 22:purissima,
ib. Ezech. 34, 18:aquae calidae,
warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:calida,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;and contr.: calda,
Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,
Cic. Verr. 1, 67:aqua frigida,
cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:frigida,
Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:decocta,
Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—Particular phrases.1.Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—2.Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):3.ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:a.non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,
Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,
Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaïb.sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,
you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:II.cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,
Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—Water, in a more restricted sense.A.The sea:B. C.coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,
on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,
Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:findite remigio aquas!
id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),
Ov. F. 2, 864.—A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:D.alii in aquam caeci ruebant,
Liv. 1, 27:sonitus multarum aquarum,
of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,
along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—Rain:E. 1.cornix augur aquae,
Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,
Ov. F. 3, 286:multā terra madescit aquā,
id. ib. 6, 198:aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,
heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—In gen.:2.ad aquas venire,
Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:aquae caldae,
Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:aquae calidae,
Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:aquae medicatae,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:aquae Salutiferae,
Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.a.Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—b. c. d. (α). (β).In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—(γ). e.Ăquae Cĭcĕrōnĭānae, at Cicero's villa at Puteoli, Plin. 31, 2, 3, § 6.—f.Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—g.Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—h.Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—F.The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,(α).Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—(β).Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—(γ).Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:G.in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,
id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;III.hence, as med. t.,
the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,
Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:decessit morbo aquae intercutis,
Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,
Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l. -
32 Aquae Solis
ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;I.aquae, as trisyl.,
Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):B.aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,
Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:pluvialis,
rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,aquae pluviae,
Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,caelestes aquae,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,aquae de nubibus,
Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:fluvialis,
river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,aqua fluminis,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:aquaï fons,
Lucr. 5, 602:fons aquae,
Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,
Verg. A. 11, 495:fluvius aquae,
Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:rivus aquae,
Verg. E. 8, 87:rivi aquarum,
Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:torrens aquae,
ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:fons aquae dulcis,
Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:aquae dulces,
Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,aquae maris,
Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:dulcis et amara aqua,
ib. Jac. 3, 11:perennis,
never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,
Cic. Verr. 4, 107:aqua profluens,
running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,currentes aquae,
Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,aqua viva,
living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:aquae vivae,
ib. Num. 19, 17;and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,
ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,vitae,
ib. Apoc. 22, 17:aquae viventes,
ib. Lev. 14, 5:stagna aquae,
standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:aquae de puteis,
well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:aqua de cisternā,
cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,aqua cisternae,
ib. Isa. 36, 16:aquae pessimae,
ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:aqua recens,
Verg. A. 6, 636:turbida,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:crassa,
ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:munda,
ib. Heb. 10, 22:purissima,
ib. Ezech. 34, 18:aquae calidae,
warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:calida,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;and contr.: calda,
Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,
Cic. Verr. 1, 67:aqua frigida,
cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:frigida,
Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:decocta,
Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—Particular phrases.1.Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—2.Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):3.ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:a.non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,
Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,
Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaïb.sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,
you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:II.cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,
Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—Water, in a more restricted sense.A.The sea:B. C.coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,
on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,
Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:findite remigio aquas!
id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),
Ov. F. 2, 864.—A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:D.alii in aquam caeci ruebant,
Liv. 1, 27:sonitus multarum aquarum,
of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,
along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—Rain:E. 1.cornix augur aquae,
Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,
Ov. F. 3, 286:multā terra madescit aquā,
id. ib. 6, 198:aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,
heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—In gen.:2.ad aquas venire,
Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:aquae caldae,
Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:aquae calidae,
Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:aquae medicatae,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:aquae Salutiferae,
Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.a.Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—b. c. d. (α). (β).In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—(γ). e.Ăquae Cĭcĕrōnĭānae, at Cicero's villa at Puteoli, Plin. 31, 2, 3, § 6.—f.Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—g.Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—h.Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—F.The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,(α).Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—(β).Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—(γ).Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:G.in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,
id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;III.hence, as med. t.,
the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,
Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:decessit morbo aquae intercutis,
Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,
Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l. -
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ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;I.aquae, as trisyl.,
Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):B.aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,
Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:pluvialis,
rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,aquae pluviae,
Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,caelestes aquae,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,aquae de nubibus,
Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:fluvialis,
river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,aqua fluminis,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:aquaï fons,
Lucr. 5, 602:fons aquae,
Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,
Verg. A. 11, 495:fluvius aquae,
Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:rivus aquae,
Verg. E. 8, 87:rivi aquarum,
Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:torrens aquae,
ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:fons aquae dulcis,
Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:aquae dulces,
Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,aquae maris,
Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:dulcis et amara aqua,
ib. Jac. 3, 11:perennis,
never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,
Cic. Verr. 4, 107:aqua profluens,
running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,currentes aquae,
Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,aqua viva,
living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:aquae vivae,
ib. Num. 19, 17;and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,
ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,vitae,
ib. Apoc. 22, 17:aquae viventes,
ib. Lev. 14, 5:stagna aquae,
standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:aquae de puteis,
well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:aqua de cisternā,
cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,aqua cisternae,
ib. Isa. 36, 16:aquae pessimae,
ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:aqua recens,
Verg. A. 6, 636:turbida,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:crassa,
ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:munda,
ib. Heb. 10, 22:purissima,
ib. Ezech. 34, 18:aquae calidae,
warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:calida,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;and contr.: calda,
Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,
Cic. Verr. 1, 67:aqua frigida,
cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:frigida,
Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:decocta,
Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—Particular phrases.1.Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—2.Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):3.ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:a.non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,
Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,
Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaïb.sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,
you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:II.cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,
Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—Water, in a more restricted sense.A.The sea:B. C.coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,
on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,
Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:findite remigio aquas!
id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),
Ov. F. 2, 864.—A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:D.alii in aquam caeci ruebant,
Liv. 1, 27:sonitus multarum aquarum,
of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,
along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—Rain:E. 1.cornix augur aquae,
Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,
Ov. F. 3, 286:multā terra madescit aquā,
id. ib. 6, 198:aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,
heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—In gen.:2.ad aquas venire,
Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:aquae caldae,
Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:aquae calidae,
Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:aquae medicatae,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:aquae Salutiferae,
Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.a.Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—b. c. d. (α). (β).In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—(γ). e.Ăquae Cĭcĕrōnĭānae, at Cicero's villa at Puteoli, Plin. 31, 2, 3, § 6.—f.Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—g.Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—h.Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—F.The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,(α).Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—(β).Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—(γ).Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:G.in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,
id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;III.hence, as med. t.,
the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,
Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:decessit morbo aquae intercutis,
Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,
Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l. -
34 aspergo
1.a-spergo ( adsp-, Ritschl, Jan; asp-, others; in MSS. sometimes aspar-go, v. Cort. ad Luc. 1, 384, and Wagner ad Verg. G. 3, 419, and infra examples from Lucr. and Hor.; cf. 2. aspergo), ersi, ersum, 3, v. a. [spargo].I.Aliquid (alicui rei), to scatter, strew something on something; or of liquids, to sprinkle, spatter over (syn.: adfundo, inicio; never in Ovid, but he often uses the simple spargo).A.Lit.:B.aequor Ionium glaucis aspargit virus ab undis,
Lucr. 1, 719 Lachm.:Ah! adspersisti aquam, Jam rediit animus,
you have dashed water on me, have revived me, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15:Euax, adspersisti aquam,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 13:guttam bulbo (with a play upon the names Gutta and Bulbus),
Cic. Clu. 26, 71:pigmenta in tabulā,
id. Div. 1, 13, 23:corpus ejus adustum adspergunt aliis carnibus,
Plin. 8, 38, 57, § 136:liquor adspersus oculis,
id. 12, 8, 18, § 34:Bubus glandem tum adspergi convenit,
id. 18, 26, 63, § 232:corpus floribus aspersis veneratus est,
Suet. Aug. 18:pecori virus aspergere,
to infect, poison, Verg. G. 3, 419:aspergens cinerem capiti,
Vulg. 2 Reg. 13, 15:huc tu jussos asperge sapores,
Verg. G. 4, 62:Non nihil aspersis gaudet Amor lacrimis,
Prop. 1, 12, 16:sanguinem aspergere,
Vulg. 2 Par. 29, 24:nivem,
ib. Eccli. 43, 19.—Trop.:II.cum clarissimo viro non nullam laudatione tuā labeculam aspergas,
fasten upon, Cic. Vatin. 17, 41:ne qua ex tuā summā indignitate labes illius dignitati aspersa videatur,
id. ib. 6, 15:notam alicui,
Dig. 37, 14, 17 fin. (cf.:allinere notam,
Cic. Verr. 1, 6, 17).—So of an inheritance, to bestow, bequeath something to, to set apart for:Aebutio sextulam aspergit,
Cic. Caecin. 6, 17.— Poet.:alas: lacteus extentas aspergit circulus alas,
Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 175.—In gen., to add to, to join, = adjungere:si illius (sc. Catonis majoris) comitatem et facilitatem tuae gravitati severitatique asperseris,
Cic. Mur. 31 fin.:huic generi orationis aspergentur etiam sales,
id. Or. 26, 87; id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 10:hos aspersi, ut scires etc.,
id. Fam. 2, 16 fin. —Aliquem or aliquid aliquā re (cf. Ramsh. Gr. p. 362; Zumpt, Gr. § 418), to strew some person or thing with something, to splash over, besprinkle, bespatter, bedew, lit. and trop.A.Lit.:B.ah, guttulā Pectus ardens mihi adspersisti (cf. supra, aquam),
Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 28:quas (sedes) nec nubila nimbis Aspergunt,
Lucr. 3, 20:ne aram sanguine aspergeret,
Cic. N. D. 3, 36, 88; so Vulg. 4 Reg. 9, [p. 175] 33; ib. Apoc. 19, 13:sanguine mensas,
Ov. M. 5, 40; and with de:asperget de sanguine ejus (turturis) parietem altaris,
Vulg. Lev. 5, 9:vaccam semine,
Liv. 41, 13:Vinxit et aspersas altera vitta comas,
the sprinkled hair, Prop. 5, 11, 34 (Müller, † acceptas):imbre lutoque Aspersus,
Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 12 K. and H.; Claud. B. Gild. 494:aquā,
Vulg. Num. 8, 7; ib. 2 Macc. 1, 21:hyssopo,
ib. Psa. 50, 9:cinere,
ib. Jer. 25, 34:terrā,
ib. 2 Macc. 10, 25 al.—Trop.:2.(Mons Idae) primo parvis urbibus aspersus erat,
dotted over with, Mel. 1, 18, 2:aures gemitu,
to fill, Val. Max. 3, 3, ext. 1:auditiunculā quādam aspersus, i. e. imbutus,
instructed, Gell. 13, 19, 5:aspersi corda a conscientiā malā,
Vulg. Heb. 10, 22.—Esp., to spot, stain, sully, defile, asperse:hunc tu vitae splendorem maculis aspergis istis?
Cic. Planc. 12, 30; so also absol.:leviter aspersus,
id. Fam. 6, 6, 9:istius facti non modo suspitione, sed ne infamiā quidem est aspersus,
id. Cael. 10; so Liv. 23, 30:aspergebatur etiam infamiā, quod, etc.,
Nep. Alcib. 3 fin.; so Suet. Ner. 3: aliquem linguā, Auct. ad Her. 4, 49, 62:e quibus unus amet quāvis aspargere cunctos, i. e. quibusvis dicteriis perstringere, laedere,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 87 K. and H.aspergo (Merk., Müller, Strüb.; in MSS. sometimes aspargo, Lachm., Rib., e. g. Verg. A. 3, 534, acc. to Non. p. 405, 5, and Vel. Long. p. 2234 P.; v. 1. aspergo), ĭnis, f. (in the ante-class. per. com. acc. to Prisc. p. 658 P.) [1. aspergo].I.A sprinkling, besprinkling (most freq. in the poets, never in Cic., who uses aspersio, q. v.):II.aspergo aquarum,
Ov. M. 7, 108:aquae,
Petr. 102, 15:(Peneus) Nubila conducit, summasque aspergine silvas Impluit,
Ov. M. 1, 572:sanguis virides aspergine tinxerat herbas,
id. ib. 3, 86;3, 683 al.: Aspergine et gelu pruinisque (lapides) rumpuntur,
Plin. 36, 22, 48, § 167:parietum,
the moisture, sweat, upon walls, Cato, R. R. 128; so Vitr. 5, 11, 1, and Plin. 22, 21, 30, § 63.— Trop.:omni culparum aspergine liber,
Prud. Apoth. 1005.—Meton. (abstr. for concr.), that which is sprinkled, drops:hic ubi sol radiis.... Adversa fulsit nimborum aspargine contra,
opposite to the falling rain, Lucr. 6, 525 Lachm.:Objectae salsā spumant aspargine cautes,
the spray, Verg. A. 3, 534:Flammiferā gemini fumant aspergine postes,
Ov. M. 14, 796:maduere graves aspergine pennae,
id. ib. 4, 729:arborei fetus aspergine caedis in atram Vertuntur faciem,
by means of the sprinkled blood, id. ib. 4, 125 al. -
35 aspersus
1. 2.aspersus ( adsp-, Jan), ūs, m. [aspergo], a sprinkling upon (used only in the abl., and perh. only in Plin.):calidae aquae adspersu,
Plin. 8, 37, 56, § 134:insecta olei adspersu necantur,
id. 11, 53, 115, § 279:aceti adspersu,
id. 13, 12, 26, § 82 al. -
36 circumrorans
circum-rōrans, antis, Part. [roro], sprinkling all round:aliquem,
App. M. 11, p. 268, 21. -
37 coniptum
coniptum or conitum, an oblation made by sprinkling flour, Paul. ex Fest. p. 40, 8 Müll. -
38 conspersio
conspersĭo ( consparsĭo), ōnis, f. [conspergo] (late Lat.).I.Abstr., a scattering, strewing, sprinkling:II.crebra salis,
Pall. Nov. 13, 3.—Concr., paste, dough, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 24 al. -
39 diapasma
dĭăpasma, ătis, n., = oiapasma, a scented powder for sprinkling on any thing, Plin. 13, 2, 3, § 19; 21, 19, 73, § 125; Mart. 1, 88, 5. -
40 Fontes Mattiaci
ăqua, ae (ACVA, Inscr. Grut. 593, 5; gen. aquāï, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 71; Lucr. 1, 284; 1. 285; 1, 307; 1, 454 et saep.; Verg. A. 7, 464; poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15; Cic. Arat. 179; Prud. Apoth. 702; the dat. aquaï also was used acc. to Charis. p. 538; v. Neue, Formenl. I. pp. 9, 11, 12; pp. 14 sq.;I.aquae, as trisyl.,
Lucr. 6, 552 Lachm.), f. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names Mess-api-oi and gê Api-a, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and ôkus, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.].A.. Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew):B.aër, aqua, terra, vapores, Quo pacto fiant,
Lucr. 1, 567: SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Dig. 40, 7, 21; cf. Dirks. Transl. p. 486; so also of titles in the Digg. 39, 3; cf. ib. 43, 20:pluvialis,
rain-water, Ov. M. 8, 335, and Sen. Q. N. 3, 1; so,aquae pluviae,
Cic. Mur. 9, 22; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 233; Quint. 10, 1, 109 (and pluviae absol., Cic. Att. 15, 16, B; Lucr. 6, 519; Verg. G. 1, 92; Ov. F. 2, 71; Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 227); so,caelestes aquae,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 135; Liv. 4, 30, 7; 5, 12, 2; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 14; so,aquae de nubibus,
Vulg. 2 Reg. 22, 12: aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30:fluvialis,
river-water, Col. 6, 22; so,aqua fluminis,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:aquaï fons,
Lucr. 5, 602:fons aquae,
Vulg. Gen. 24, 13:fontes aquarum, ib. Joel, 1, 20: flumen aquae,
Verg. A. 11, 495:fluvius aquae,
Vulg. Apoc. 22, 1:rivus aquae,
Verg. E. 8, 87:rivi aquarum,
Vulg. Isa. 32, 2:torrens aquae,
ib. Macc. 5, 40; and plur., ib. Jer. 31, 9: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce, Lucr. 6, 890:fons aquae dulcis,
Cic. Verr. 4, 118; and plur.:aquae dulces,
Verg. G. 4, 61; id. A. 1, 167: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus), Cic. Att. 1, 16; so,aquae maris,
Vulg. Gen. 1, 22; ib. Exod. 15, 19:dulcis et amara aqua,
ib. Jac. 3, 11:perennis,
never-failing, Liv. 1, 21; and plur.:quo in summo (loco) est aequata agri planities et aquae perennes,
Cic. Verr. 4, 107:aqua profluens,
running-water, id. Off. 1, 16, 52; so,currentes aquae,
Vulg. Isa. 30, 25; so,aqua viva,
living-water, Varr. L. L. 5, 26, 35; Vulg. Gen. 26, 19; and plur.:aquae vivae,
ib. Num. 19, 17;and in a spiritual sense: aqua viva,
ib. Joan. 4, 10; so,vitae,
ib. Apoc. 22, 17:aquae viventes,
ib. Lev. 14, 5:stagna aquae,
standing-water, Prop. 4, 17, 2; and plur., Vulg. Psa. 106, 35; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 217, 2:aquae de puteis,
well-water, Vulg. Num. 20, 17:aqua de cisternā,
cisternwater, ib. 2 Reg. 23, 16; so,aqua cisternae,
ib. Isa. 36, 16:aquae pessimae,
ib. 4 Reg. 2, 19:aqua recens,
Verg. A. 6, 636:turbida,
Vulg. Jer. 2, 18:crassa,
ib. 2 Macc. 1, 20:munda,
ib. Heb. 10, 22:purissima,
ib. Ezech. 34, 18:aquae calidae,
warm-water, ib. Gen. 36, 24; and absol.:calida,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3; Plin. 25, 7, 38, § 77; Tac. G. 22;and contr.: calda,
Col. 6, 13; Plin. 23, 4, 41, § 83: aqua fervens, boiling-water:aliquem aquā ferventi perfundere,
Cic. Verr. 1, 67:aqua frigida,
cold-water, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; Vulg. Prov. 25, 23; ib. Matt. 10, 42; and absol.:frigida,
Cels. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Quint. 5, 11, 31: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow, Mart. 14, 116; and absol.:decocta,
Juv. 5, 50; Suet. Ner. 48 al.—Particular phrases.1.Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), Hor. S. 1, 4, 88 (cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 69).—2.Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon):3.ah, adspersisti aquam! Jam rediit animus,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 15.—Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life:a.non aquā, non igni, ut aiunt, locis pluribus utimur quam amicitiā,
Cic. Lael. 6, 22.—Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish, Cic. Phil. 1, 9; so the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 3 Müll. (this custom is differently explained in [p. 148] Varr. L. L. 5, 9, 18): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like gên kai hudôr aitein), to demand submission, Liv. 35, 17:aquam ipsos (hostes) terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis,
Curt. 3, 10, 8.— Provv.Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaïb.sumi quam haec est atque ista hospita,
you can't find two peas more like, Plaut. Mil. 1, 6, 70 sq. —In aquā scribere = kath hudatos graphein, to write in water, of something transient, useless:II.cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidā scribere oportet aquā,
Cat. 70, 4 (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).—Water, in a more restricted sense.A.The sea:B. C.coge, ut ad aquam tibi frumentum Ennenses metiantur,
on the sea-coast, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83:laborum quos ego sum terrā, quos ego passus aquā,
Ov. P. 2, 7, 30:findite remigio aquas!
id. F. 3, 586.— Trop.: Venimus in portum... Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail (cf. Milton in the Lycidas:To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new),
Ov. F. 2, 864.—A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula, Ov. F. 4, 48:D.alii in aquam caeci ruebant,
Liv. 1, 27:sonitus multarum aquarum,
of many streams, Vulg. Isa. 17, 12; ib. Apoc. 1, 15; 19, 6:lignum, quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum,
along the watercourses, ib. Psa. 1, 3.—Rain:E. 1.cornix augur aquae,
Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:deūm genitor effusis aethera siccat aquis,
Ov. F. 3, 286:multā terra madescit aquā,
id. ib. 6, 198:aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt,
heavy rains, a flood, inundation, Liv. 24, 9; 38, 28.—In gen.:2.ad aquas venire,
Cic. Planc. 27, 65; id. Fam. 16, 24, 2:aquae caldae,
Varr. L. L. 9, 69, p. 219 Müll.:aquae calidae,
Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:aquae medicatae,
Sen. Q. N. 3, 25:aquae Salutiferae,
Mart. 5, 1.—Hence,As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.a.Ăquae Ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of Mart. 6, 42, 7, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.—b. c. d. (α). (β).In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos, Liv. 30, 24, 9; Tab. Peut.—(γ). e.Ăquae Cĭcĕrōnĭānae, at Cicero's villa at Puteoli, Plin. 31, 2, 3, § 6.—f.Ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, Amm. 29, 4, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in Plin. 31, 2, 17, § 20.—g.Ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61; Vell. 1, 15; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36.—h.Ăquae Tauri or Tauri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.—F.The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases,(α).Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 7.—(β).Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it, Quint. 11, 3, 52.—(γ).Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117:G.in hac causā mihi aqua haeret,
id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 7.—Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person;III.hence, as med. t.,
the dropsy, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 3:medicamentum ad aquam intercutem dare,
Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:decessit morbo aquae intercutis,
Suet. Ner 5; cf. Cels. 2, 8.— Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 37, 3.—Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr. Hudôr:hae tenues stellae perhibentur nomine Aquāī,
Cic. Arat. 179 (as translation of tous pantas kaleousin Hudôr); v. Orell. ad h. l.
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