cold

hĭems or hiemps, ĕmis, f. [Gr. chiôn, cheima; Sanscr. himas, snow], the winter, winter time, rainy season (cf.: bruma, solstitium).

Lit.: aestatem autumnus sequitur, post acer hiemps fit, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 647 P. (Ann. v. 406 Vahl.):

solvitur acris hiems grata vice veris et Favoni,

Hor. C. 1, 4, 1: crudelis, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 891 P. (Ann. v. 482 Vahl.);

opp. to aestas,

Dig. 43, 20, 1, §§

31 and 32: dies primus est veris in Aquario, aestatis in Tauro, autumni in Leone, hiemis in Scorpione,

Varr. R. R. 1, 28, 1; cf. id. ap. Col. 11, 2, 84; Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 125; 18, 25, 60, § 224 sq.: prodit hiems, sequitur crepitans hanc dentibus algor. Lucr. 5, 747:

hanc vim frigorum hiememque, quam nos vix hujus urbis tectis sustinemus, excipere,

Cic. Rab. Post. 15, 42:

summa,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 40, § 86; id. de Imp. Pomp. 12, 32:

gravissimā hieme,

Caes. B. C. 3, 8 fin.:

jamque hiems appropinquabat,

id. ib. 3, 9, 8:

initā hieme,

id. B. G. 3, 7, 1:

jam prope hieme confectā,

id. ib. 7, 32, 2: ante exactam hiemem, id. ib. 6, 1, 4:

hiems jam praecipitaverat,

id. B. C. 3, 25, 1:

modestia hiemis,

Tac. A. 12, 43:

bellum difficillimum gessit hieme anni,

in winter time, Suet. Caes. 35:

stridebat deformis hiems,

Juv. 4, 58: Arabes campos et montes hieme et aestate peragrantes, winter and summer, i. e. in all seasons, Cic. Div. 1, 42, 94.—In plur.:

confligunt hiemes aestatibus acres,

Lucr. 6, 373:

est ubi plus tepeant hiemes?

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 15:

informīs hiemes reducit Juppiter, idem Summovet,

id. C. 2, 10, 15; 3, 1, 32:

in his locis maturae sunt hiemes,

Caes. B. G. 4, 20, 1; Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49:

seu plures hiemes, seu tribuit Juppiter ultimam,

years, Hor. C. 1, 11, 4:

post certas hiemes,

id. ib. 1, 15, 35; cf.:

sic multas hiemes atque octogensima vidit solstitia,

Juv. 4, 92.—Personified: Hiems, Ov. M. 2, 30; 15, 212; 4, 436; Verg. A. 3, 120.—

Transf. (mostly poet.).

Rainy, stormy weather, a storm, tempest:

imber Noctem hiememque ferens,

Verg. A. 5, 11; cf.:

non tam creber agens hiemem ruit aequore turbo,

id. G. 3, 470:

Juppiter horridus austris Torquet aquosam hiemem,

id. A. 9, 671; id. G. 1, 321; Hor. Epod. 2, 52; Ov. M. 11, 490; 521; 13, 709 al.—In plur., Val. Fl. 2, 22; Stat. S. 5, 1, 36.—In prose:

maritimos cursus praecludebat hiemis magnitudo,

Cic. Planc. 40 fin.:

qui (gubernator) navem ex hieme marique scopuloso servat,

Nep. Att. 10 fin. —

In gen., cold, chill; tempest, violence ( poet.):

sic letalis hiems paulatim in pectora venit,

a deadly chill, Ov. M. 2, 827; cf. Mart. 2, 46, 7:

Vesuvinus apex et flammea diri Montis hiems,

the fiery tempest, Stat. S. 3, 5, 72;

so of Vesuvius: vix dum ignea montem Torsit hiems,

Val. Fl. 4, 508:

instamus jactu telorum et ferrea nimbis Certat hiems,

the iron storm, shower of weapons, Stat. Th. 5, 386.—

Trop.

Cold, storm ( poet.):

ab illa Pessima (die) mutati coepit amoris hiems,

cold, Ov. H. 5, 34:

hiems rerum,

the storm of war, disturbance of war, Claud. B. Get. 151.—

Trouble, distress:

suae senectuti acriorem hiemem parat, quom illam inportunam tempestatem conciet,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 3, 7.

hĭems or hiemps, ĕmis, f. [Gr. chiôn, cheima; Sanscr. himas, snow], the winter, winter time, rainy season (cf.: bruma, solstitium).

Lit.: aestatem autumnus sequitur, post acer hiemps fit, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 647 P. (Ann. v. 406 Vahl.):

solvitur acris hiems grata vice veris et Favoni,

Hor. C. 1, 4, 1: crudelis, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 891 P. (Ann. v. 482 Vahl.);

opp. to aestas,

Dig. 43, 20, 1, §§

31 and 32: dies primus est veris in Aquario, aestatis in Tauro, autumni in Leone, hiemis in Scorpione,

Varr. R. R. 1, 28, 1; cf. id. ap. Col. 11, 2, 84; Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 125; 18, 25, 60, § 224 sq.: prodit hiems, sequitur crepitans hanc dentibus algor. Lucr. 5, 747:

hanc vim frigorum hiememque, quam nos vix hujus urbis tectis sustinemus, excipere,

Cic. Rab. Post. 15, 42:

summa,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 40, § 86; id. de Imp. Pomp. 12, 32:

gravissimā hieme,

Caes. B. C. 3, 8 fin.:

jamque hiems appropinquabat,

id. ib. 3, 9, 8:

initā hieme,

id. B. G. 3, 7, 1:

jam prope hieme confectā,

id. ib. 7, 32, 2: ante exactam hiemem, id. ib. 6, 1, 4:

hiems jam praecipitaverat,

id. B. C. 3, 25, 1:

modestia hiemis,

Tac. A. 12, 43:

bellum difficillimum gessit hieme anni,

in winter time, Suet. Caes. 35:

stridebat deformis hiems,

Juv. 4, 58: Arabes campos et montes hieme et aestate peragrantes, winter and summer, i. e. in all seasons, Cic. Div. 1, 42, 94.—In plur.:

confligunt hiemes aestatibus acres,

Lucr. 6, 373:

est ubi plus tepeant hiemes?

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 15:

informīs hiemes reducit Juppiter, idem Summovet,

id. C. 2, 10, 15; 3, 1, 32:

in his locis maturae sunt hiemes,

Caes. B. G. 4, 20, 1; Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49:

seu plures hiemes, seu tribuit Juppiter ultimam,

years, Hor. C. 1, 11, 4:

post certas hiemes,

id. ib. 1, 15, 35; cf.:

sic multas hiemes atque octogensima vidit solstitia,

Juv. 4, 92.—Personified: Hiems, Ov. M. 2, 30; 15, 212; 4, 436; Verg. A. 3, 120.—

Transf. (mostly poet.).

Rainy, stormy weather, a storm, tempest:

imber Noctem hiememque ferens,

Verg. A. 5, 11; cf.:

non tam creber agens hiemem ruit aequore turbo,

id. G. 3, 470:

Juppiter horridus austris Torquet aquosam hiemem,

id. A. 9, 671; id. G. 1, 321; Hor. Epod. 2, 52; Ov. M. 11, 490; 521; 13, 709 al.—In plur., Val. Fl. 2, 22; Stat. S. 5, 1, 36.—In prose:

maritimos cursus praecludebat hiemis magnitudo,

Cic. Planc. 40 fin.:

qui (gubernator) navem ex hieme marique scopuloso servat,

Nep. Att. 10 fin. —

In gen., cold, chill; tempest, violence ( poet.):

sic letalis hiems paulatim in pectora venit,

a deadly chill, Ov. M. 2, 827; cf. Mart. 2, 46, 7:

Vesuvinus apex et flammea diri Montis hiems,

the fiery tempest, Stat. S. 3, 5, 72;

so of Vesuvius: vix dum ignea montem Torsit hiems,

Val. Fl. 4, 508:

instamus jactu telorum et ferrea nimbis Certat hiems,

the iron storm, shower of weapons, Stat. Th. 5, 386.—

Trop.

Cold, storm ( poet.):

ab illa Pessima (die) mutati coepit amoris hiems,

cold, Ov. H. 5, 34:

hiems rerum,

the storm of war, disturbance of war, Claud. B. Get. 151.—

Trouble, distress:

suae senectuti acriorem hiemem parat, quom illam inportunam tempestatem conciet,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 3, 7.

nĭvālis, e, adj. [nix], of or belonging to snow, snowy, snow-.

Lit.:

nivalis dies,

a snowy day, Liv. 21, 54, 7:

nivalia (sc. loca),

Plin. 26, 8, 29, § 46:

Haemonia,

Hor. C. 1, 37, 19:

venti,

Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 126:

axis,

the region of snow, Val. Fl. 5, 225:

Hebrus nivali compede vinctus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 3:

undae,

water filled with snow, Mart. 14, 118, 1:

aqua nivalis,

snow-water, Gell. 19, 5, 3:

terrae et pruinosae,

Amm. 23, 6, 43.—

Transf.

Cold: dies, a cold, dull day:

dicimus nivalem diem, cum altum frigus et triste caelum est,

Sen. Q. N. 4, 4, 3; Flor. 2, 6, 12:

osculum,

cold, frigid, Mart. 7, 95, 2.—

Snow-like, snowy:

equi candore nivali,

Verg. A. 3, 538.— Trop.:

nivalis Pietas,

Prud. Symm. 2, 249.

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aestŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. [aestus], to be in agilation or in violent commotion, to move to and fro, to rage, to toss, to boil up.

Lit.

Of fire, to rage, burn:

aestuat ut clausis rapidus fornacibus ignis,

as the fire heaves and roars in the closed furnaces, Verg. G. 4, 263:

tectus magis aestuat ignis,

Ov. M. 4, 64.—Hence,

Of the effect of fire, to be warm or hot, to burn, glow; both objectively, I am warm (Fr. je suis chaud), and subjectively, it is warm to me, I feel warm (Fr. j'ai chaud).

Object.: nunc dum occasio est, dum scribilitae aestuant ( while the cakes are warm) occurrite, Plaut. Poen. prol. 43; Verg. G. 1, 107:

torridus aestuat aër,

glows, Prop. 3, 24, 3; Luc. 1, 16. —

Subject., to feel warmth or heat (weaker than sudare, to sweat, and opp. algere, to be cold, to feel cold;

v. Doed. Syn. 3, 89): Lycurgi leges erudiunt juventutem esuriendo, sitiendo, algendo, aestuando,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 14, 34:

ille cum aestuaret, umbram secutus est,

id. Ac. 2, 22:

sub pondere,

Ov. M. 12, 514; Juv. 3, 103.—

Of the undulating, heaving motion of the sea, to rise in waves or billows (cf. aestus):

Maura unda,

Hor. C. 2, 6, 4:

gurges,

Verg. A. 6, 296.—

Of other things, to have an undulating, waving motion, to be tossed, to heave:

in ossibus umor,

Verg. G. 4, 308:

ventis pulsa aestuat arbor,

Lucr. 5, 1097; Gell. 17, 11, 5. —Of an agitated crowd, Prud. 11, 228.—

Trop.

Of the passions, love, desire, envy, jealousy, etc., to burn with desire, to be in violent, passionate excitement, to be agitated or excited, to be inflamed:

quod ubi auditum est, aestuare (hist. inf.) illi, qui dederant pecuniam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 23:

quae cum dies noctesque aestuans agitaret,

Sall. J. 93:

desiderio alicujus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 18:

invidiā,

Sall. C. 23:

ingens in corde pudor,

Verg. A. 12, 666:

at rex Odrysius in illa Aestuat,

Ov. M. 6, 490 (cf. uri in id. ib. 7, 22;

and ardere in id,

ib. 9, 724); Mart. 9, 23:

aestuat (Alexander) infelix angusto limite mundi (the figure is derived from the swelling and raging of the sea when confined),

Juv. 10, 169; so Luc. 6, 63.—

Esp. in prose, to waver, to vacillate, to hesitate, to be uncertain or in doubt, to be undecided:

dubitatione,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 30: quod petiit, spernit; repetit quod nuper omisit;

Aestuat et vitae disconvenit ordine toto,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 99:

sic anceps inter utramque animus aestuat,

Quint. 10, 7, 33; Suet. Claud. 4:

aestuante rege,

Just. 1, 10.

algesco, alsi, 3, v. inch. n. [algeo].

To catch cold:

ne ille alserit,

Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 11 (cf.:

frigus colligere,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 13, and perfrigescere, Juv. 7, 194).—

Post-Aug. (cf. algens) of things, to become cold:

(vites) aegrotant et, cum alsere, laesis uredine attonsarum oculis,

Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 226:

rabies flammarum,

Prud. Apoth. 142.

alsĭus or alsus, a, um, adj. [algeo], chilly, cold, cool (only once in Lucr. and twice in Cic.):

alsia corpora,

cold bodies, Lucr. 5, 1015.—The form alsus only in the comp. neutr.:

Antio nihil quietius, nihil alsius, nihil amoenius,

Cic. Att. 4, 8: Jam apodutêriôi nihil alsius, nihil muscosius, id. Q. Fr. 3, 1; cf Rudd. I. p. 179, n. 52.

Alsĭus, a, um, adj., belonging to the maritime city Alsium, in Etruria (Vell. 1, 14; cf.

Mann. Ital. I. p 380): litus,

Sil. 8, 476:

tellus,

Rutil. Itin. Anton. p. 300.

alsĭus or alsus, a, um, adj. [algeo], chilly, cold, cool (only once in Lucr. and twice in Cic.):

alsia corpora,

cold bodies, Lucr. 5, 1015.—The form alsus only in the comp. neutr.:

Antio nihil quietius, nihil alsius, nihil amoenius,

Cic. Att. 4, 8: Jam apodutêriôi nihil alsius, nihil muscosius, id. Q. Fr. 3, 1; cf Rudd. I. p. 179, n. 52.

Alsĭus, a, um, adj., belonging to the maritime city Alsium, in Etruria (Vell. 1, 14; cf.

Mann. Ital. I. p 380): litus,

Sil. 8, 476:

tellus,

Rutil. Itin. Anton. p. 300.

alsĭus or alsus, a, um, adj. [algeo], chilly, cold, cool (only once in Lucr. and twice in Cic.):

alsia corpora,

cold bodies, Lucr. 5, 1015.—The form alsus only in the comp. neutr.:

Antio nihil quietius, nihil alsius, nihil amoenius,

Cic. Att. 4, 8: Jam apodutêriôi nihil alsius, nihil muscosius, id. Q. Fr. 3, 1; cf Rudd. I. p. 179, n. 52.

Alsĭus, a, um, adj., belonging to the maritime city Alsium, in Etruria (Vell. 1, 14; cf.

Mann. Ital. I. p 380): litus,

Sil. 8, 476:

tellus,

Rutil. Itin. Anton. p. 300.

călĕo, ui, 2, v. n. ( part. fut. act. călĭtūrus, Ov. M. 13, 590: caleor = caleo, Caper. ap. Prisc. p. 797 P.; prob. only in reference to the impers. caletur, Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 12; id. Truc. 1, 1, 46) [etym. dub.; cf. Gr. skellô, sklêros], to be warm or hot, to glow (object.; opp. frigere, to be cold; while aestuare, to feel, experience warmth; opp. algere, to feel cold; cf. Doed. Syn. III. p. 89).

Lit.: calet aqua;

eamus hinc intro ut laves,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 73:

sentiri hoc putat, ut calere ignem,

Cic. Fin. 1, 9, 30:

os calet tibi,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 39:

sole calente,

Tib. 1, 5, 22:

terrae alio sole calentes,

Hor. C. 2, 16, 18:

calens favilla,

id. ib. 2, 6, 22:

ture calent arae,

Verg. A. 1, 417:

calentibus aris,

Ov. M. 12, 152:

calituras ignibus aras,

id. ib. 13, 590:

guttae calentes,

id. ib. 7, 283:

epulae,

id. ib. 8, 671:

sulphur,

id. ib. 14, 86.— Poet. sometimes for aestuare, subject., to feel warm:

ut fortunati sunt fabri ferrarii, Qui aput carbones adsident! semper calent,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 47:

febre,

Juv. 10, 218:

rabie,

Val. Fl. 3, 216; cf.: caluit et hodie Faustina, Aur. ap. Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 5, 11.—

Trop.

To glow in mind, to be roused, warmed, inflamed [p. 269] (class.;

in prose less freq. than ardere): (leones) permixtā caede calentes,

inflamed by indiscriminate slaughter, Lucr. 5, 1312; cf. id. 3, 643; Hirt. ap. Cic. Att. 15, 6, 2:

admirando, irridendo calebat,

Cic. Brut. 66, 234:

in re frigidissimā cales, in ferventissimā cales,

Auct. Her. 4, 15, 21:

animis jam calentibus,

Quint. 4, 1, 59:

Romani calentes adhuc ab recenti pugnā proelium ineunt,

Liv. 25, 39, 9:

at ille utendum animis dum spe calerent ratus,

are animated, Curt. 4, 1, 29:

feminā calere,

to become enamored of, Hor. C. 4, 11, 33; cf.:

Lycidan quo calet juventus,

id. ib. 1, 4, 19:

puellā,

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 83:

amore,

id. A. A. 3, 571; Mart. 7, 32, 12:

igne,

id. 5, 55, 3:

desiderio Conjugis abrepti,

to be inflamed with desire, Ov. M. 7, 731; also, to be troubled, perplexed: haec velim explices;

etsi te ipsum istic jam calere puto,

Cic. Att. 7, 20, 2; Cael. ap. id. Fam. 8, 6, 51: alio mentis morbo, to labor under (the figure derived from fever, v. supra), Hor. S. 2, 3, 80;

and so of the passion for scribbling: mutavit mentem populus levis et calet uno Scribendi studio,

now the rage for writing and versifying is the general disease of our people, id. Ep. 2, 1, 108:

narratur et prisci Catonis Saepe mero caluisse virtus,

id. C. 3, 21, 12; Stat. Th. 5, 263.—

With inf.:

tubas audire,

Stat. Th. 4, 261; Claud. Nupt. Hon. 10, 287; id. Ep. 1, 29.—

With ad:

ad nova lucra,

Prop. 4 (5), 3, 62.—

Of abstract things, to be carried on warmly, to be urged on zealously:

illud crimen de nummis caluit re recenti, nunc in causā refrixit,

Cic. Planc. 23, 55:

judicia calent, i. e. magnā diligentiā et ardore exercentur,

id. Att. 4, 16, 3:

calebant nundinae,

id. Phil. 5, 4, 11:

posteaquam satis calere res Rubrio visa est,

i. e. seemed sufficiently ripe for execution, id. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 66:

Veneris bella calent,

rage, Tib. 1, 10, 53:

et mixtus lacrimis caluit dolor,

Stat. Th. 3, 383.—

To be yet warm, new, or fresh (the figure taken from food):

at enim nihil est, nisi, dum calet, hic agitur,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 92: illi rumores de comitiis caluerunt, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 2.—

(Effectus pro causā.) Of a place, to be eagerly sought, to be frequented (rare):

ungularum pulsibus calens Hister,

often trod, Mart. 7, 7, 2.

ē-gĕlĭdus, a, um, adj.

( Ex priv. as in effrenare.) Not cold; lukewarm, tepid ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

potio et frigidae propior,

Cels. 4, 18 fin.; cf.

aqua (opp. frigida),

id. 6, 18; cf. Suet. Aug. 82:

tepores,

Cat. 46, 1; cf.

ver (with mollissimus annus), Col. poët. 10, 282: hiemes,

Aus. Ep. 24, 97:

Notus (opp. gelidus Boreas),

Ov. Am. 2, 11, 10:

Mosella,

Aus. Ep. 2, 4.—

( Ex intensive, as in edurus, efferus, etc.) Chilly, chill, cold:

flumen,

Verg. A. 8, 610;

Forbig. ad loc. (Rib. ecgelido): Hister,

Aus. Caes. 21, 1:

aquae,

Plin. 31, 2, 6, § 10: exhalatio, App. de Mundo, 8.