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drained lands

  • 1 sicco

    sicco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [id.].
    I.
    Act., to make dry, to day, to dry up.
    A.
    In gen. (freq. and class.):

    venti et sol siccare prius confidunt omnia posse,

    Lucr. 5, 390; cf.:

    sol siccaverat herbas,

    Ov. M. 4, 82:

    siccabat rorantes capillos,

    id. F. 4, 141:

    sole capillos,

    id. M. 11, 770; Plin. 27, 9, 55, § 79:

    aliquid in sole,

    Col. 12, 46, 5; Plin. 12, 13, 27, § 47:

    aliquid ad lunam,

    id. 21, 11, 36, § 62:

    lina madentia,

    Ov. M. 13, 931:

    retia litore,

    id. ib. 11, 362:

    vellera,

    Verg. E. 3, 95:

    veste cruores,

    id. A. 4, 687:

    cruorem,

    Gell. 5, 14, 22:

    lacrimas,

    Prop. 1, 19, 23; Ov. M. 8, 469; 9, 395; id. F. 3, 509:

    jocis lacrimas siccare,

    Quint. 11, 1, 6 al.:

    genas,

    Ov. M. 10, 362:

    frontem sudario,

    Quint. 11, 3, 148.—
    B.
    Esp.
    1.
    To dry up, drain land, marshes, springs, etc.:

    paludes,

    Cic. Phil. 5, 3, 7; so,

    paludem,

    Quint. 3, 8, 16; Suet. Caes. 44:

    amnes,

    Ov. M. 2, 257:

    fontes,

    id. ib. 13, 690; cf.:

    palustria aestate siccantur,

    Plin. 12, 22, 48, § 104:

    agri siccati,

    drained lands, lands uncovered by draining, Suet. Claud. 20:

    dea Sidereo siccata sitim collegit ab aestu,

    parched, Ov. M. 6, 341.—
    2.
    To exhaust, drain dry, etc. ( poet.):

    ovis ubera,

    Verg. E. 2, 42; so,

    distenta ubera,

    Hor. Epod. 2, 46;

    for which, transf.: distentas siccant pecudes,

    Luc. 4, 314; so,

    siccata ovis,

    i. e. milked, Ov. Am. 3, 5, 14:

    calices,

    i. e. to drain, empty, Hor. S. 2, 6, 68;

    so. cadis siccatis,

    id. C. 1, 35, 27; cf.: cum siccare sacram largo Permessida posset Ore, to drink deeply from the fountain of the Muses, i. e. to be a great poet, Mart. 8, 70, 3.—In Gr. construction:

    Arethusa virides manu siccata capillos,

    Ov. M. 5, 575.—
    3.
    To dry up, heal up, remore an unwholesome humor; or, to heal up, free some part of the body from an unwholesome humor ( poet. and in the elder Pliny): ad pituitam oris siccandam. Plin. 23, 1, 13, § 17: suppurata, [p. 1693] id. 36, 17, 28, § 133:

    strumas,

    id. 24, 4, 6, § 11:

    corpora,

    id. 31, 6, 33, § 62:

    os,

    id. 12, 12, 26, § 43:

    arterias umidas,

    id. 20, 14, 53, § 148; cf.: corpus pilā, i. e. to strengthen, invigorate, Lucil. ap. Non. 394, 29;

    v. siccitas, I. B. 3.: vulnera,

    Ov. M. 10, 187; cf.:

    ad fluminis undam Vulnera siccabat lymphis,

    Verg. A. 10, 834;

    for which, in a Gr. construction: juvenes siccati vulnera lymphis,

    Stat. Th. 1, 527.—
    II.
    Neutr., to become dry, get dry (very rare):

    quotiens flumina et stagna siccaverint,

    Lact. 7, 3, 8: tundis cuminum et postea infundis in aceto;

    cum siccaverit, etc.,

    Apic. 3, 18, § 105; 4, 2, § 132 al.— Impers.:

    ubi pluerit et siccaverit,

    Cato, R. R. 112, 2.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > sicco

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