moistened with unguents

mădĭdus, a, um, adj. [madeo], moist, wet, soaked, drenched (rare until after the Aug. per.).

Lit.

In gen.: fasciculus epistolarum aquā madidus, * Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 4:

spiritus,

Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 79:

madidi myrrhā capilli,

Ov. M. 5, 53:

madidis Notus evolat alis,

id. ib. 1, 264; cf. Luc. 1, 219 Cort.:

genae,

i. e. bedewed with tears, Ov. A. A. 1, 660:

comae,

moistened with unguents, id. H. 14, 30:

fossae,

wet, abounding in water, id. Tr. 5, 6, 37:

palus,

id. A. A. 1, 554:

lacus,

Mart. 4, 44, 2:

Juppiter,

i. e. Pluvius, id. 7, 36, 1:

ver,

rainy, Juv. 9, 51. —

With gen.:

rosas madidas divini roris et nectaris video,

App. M. 4, p. 143.—

In partic.

Dyed:

vestis cocco madida, vel murice tincta,

Mart. 5, 23, 5. —

Drunk, intoxicated:

madidus vino,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 6, 36:

faciam ut sit madidus sobrius,

id. Am. 3, 4, 18:

cum peteret matellam madidus,

Mart. 6, 89, 2; 9, 23, 11:

illum madidum, nihili incontinentem, etc.,

a drunkard, sot, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 9:

molli luxu madefacta meroque,

Sil. 12, 18:

dies,

i. e. spent in drinking, Mart. 14, 1, 9:

Tarentum,

full of drunkenness, Juv. 6, 297. —

Transf., soft, boiled soft, sodden, soaked:

madidiora lenticula,

Plin. 27, 5, 21, § 38:

madida quae mihi apposita in mensam,

Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 29; id. Pers. 1, 3, 14:

cicer,

Mart. 1, 42, 6; 10, 48, 12:

siliginis offas accipere et madidae,

Juv. 6, 473:

tabe jecur madidum,

putrid, corrupt, Luc. 1, 621.—

Trop.

Soft, weak: madida memoria, Caecil. ap. Prisc. p. 699 P. (Com. Rel. v. 31 Rib.).—

Full of, filled with any thing:

Minervae artibus,

Mart. 1, 40, 3:

madidi jocis libelli,

id. 4, 14, 12.— Hence, * adv.: mădĭdē, moistly:

non vides me uti madide madeam?

how thoroughly soaked, drunk, I am, Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 7.

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