sătŭ-rātus

sătŭro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [satur], to fill, glut, cloy, satiate (rare but class.; syn. satio).

Lit.:

animalia duce naturā mammas appetunt earumque ubertate saturantur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 128:

armenta,

Verg. A. 8, 213:

nec cytiso saturantur apes,

id. E. 10, 30:

caede leones,

Ov. M. 10, 541; id. Am. 2, 16, 25:

testudines,

Plin. 9, 10, 12, § 36:

saturabat glebula talis Patrem ipsum,

Juv. 14, 166:

famem,

i. e. to satisfy, appease, Claud. Phoen. 13; Vulg. Deut. 14, 29 et saep. —

Transf., in gen., to fill, furnish abundantly, saturate with a thing ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

nec saturare fimo pingui pudeat sola,

Verg. G. 1, 80:

novalia stercore,

Col. 2, 9, 15:

betam multo stercore,

Pall. Febr. 24, 10:

jejunia terrae fimo, Col. poët. 10, 82: culta aquis,

i. e. to water, irrigate, Mart. 8, 28, 4; cf.: pallam Tyrio murice, to saturate, to dye or color richly, Ov. M. 11, 166; Mart. 8, 48, 5; Claud. in Ruf. 1, 208:

capillum multo amomo,

to anoint, Stat. S. 3, 4, 82:

tabulas pice,

to smear, cover, Vitr. 10, 11 fin.; cf.:

aditus murium querno cinere,

Pall. 1, 35, 11:

horrea,

to fill, stuff, Lucil. Aetn. 266.—

Trop.

In gen., to fill, satisfy, content, sate:

mens erecta saturataque bonarum cogitationum epulis,

Cic. Div. 1, 29, 61:

homines saturati honoribus,

id. Planc. 8, 20:

ex eorum agris atque urbibus expleti atque saturati cum hoc cumulo quaestus decederent,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 42, § 100:

saturavi perfidiam et scelus proditorum,

id. Dom. 17, 44; Cat. 64, 220:

saturavit se sanguine civium,

Cic. Phil. 2, 24, 59:

crudelitatem,

to satisfy, sate, id. Vatin. 3, 6.—In a Gr. construction: Juno necdum antiquum saturata dolorem, not yet satisfied or assuaged, Verg. A. 5, 608.—

In partic., subject. (for the usu. satio), to cause to loathe, to make weary of or disgusted with a thing: hae res vitae me saturant, * Plaut. Stich. 1, 1, 18.—Hence, sătŭ-rātus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.); of color, full, rich:

color saturatior,

Plin. 21, 8, 22, § 46.