load my throat with a draught of rushes

pōtĭo, ōnis, f. [id.], a drinking, a drink, draught, abstr. and concr. (class.).

In gen.

Abstr.:

in mediā potione,

Cic. Clu. 10, 30; cf.:

contemptissimis escis et potionibus,

id. Fin. 2, 28, 90.—

Concr.:

cum cibo et potione fames sitisque depulsa est,

Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37:

multo cibo et potione completi,

id. Tusc. 5, 35, 100:

cibus et potio,

Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 5:

A POTIONE,

a cup-bearer, Inscr. Grut. 578, 1.—

In partic.

A poisonous draught:

potione mulierem sustulit,

Cic. Clu. 14, 40; cf.: potio mortis causa data. Quint. Decl. 350:

haec potio torquet,

Juv. 6, 624.—

A draught or potion given by physicians:

dare potionis aliquid,

Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 21:

potiones ad id efficaces,

Cels. 4, 8.—

A magic potion, philter ( poet.), Hor. Epod. 5, 73.—

Trop.: nam mihi jam intus potione juncea onerabo gulam, load my throat with a draught of rushes, i. e. hang myself with a rope of rushes, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 56.

pŏtĭo, īvi, īre, v. a. [potis], to put into the power of, to subject to any one:

eum nunc potivit pater Servitutis,

made a slave of him, reduced him to slavery, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 23: potitu'st hostium, fallen into the [p. 1409] enemy's hands, id. Capt. 1, 1, 24; 1, 2, 41; 3, 5, 104; cf. id. Ep. 4, 1, 5; 4, 1, 35; Paul. ex Fest. p. 250 Müll.