swallow

dē-vŏro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to swallow, swallow down, gulp down, devour (class.; esp. freq. in transf. signif.—for syn. cf.: edo, comedo, vescor, pascor, mando).

Lit., of the physical act:

id quod devoratur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 135:

ovum gallinaceum integrum,

Cato R. R. 71: laseris paululum, [p. 567] Cels. 4, 4, 4:

salivam suam,

id. 2, 6, 98;

lapides,

Plin. 8, 10, 10, § 29:

succum,

id. 20, 23, 98, § 260:

fumum,

id. 26, 6, 16, § 30 et saep.—

Transf.

Of inanimate subjects, to swallow up, ingulf, absorb:

devorer telluris hiatu,

Ov. H. 3, 63:

terra devoravit montem,

Plin. 2, 91, 93, § 205:

vel me Charybdis devoret,

Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 74:

terras devorant aquae,

Plin. 31, 1, 1, § 2:

sol aquas devorans,

id. 20 prooem. §

1: ne rotae devorarentur (viarum mollitudine),

Vitr. 10, 6.—

To seize upon greedily or hastily, to swallow eagerly, to devour: meretricem ego item esse reor, mare ut est;

quod des, devorat,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 16:

spe et opinione praedam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 51; cf.:

spe devoratum lucrum,

id. Fl. 24; and:

regis hereditatem spe,

id. Att. 1, 16, 10:

aliquid oculis,

Just. 21, 5, 6; cf.:

spectat oculis devorantibus draucos,

Mart. 1, 97; cf. infra III. B.—

To swallow down, repress, suppress, check: verborum pars devorari solet, to be swallowed, i. e. only half pronounced, Quint. 11, 3, 33; so, verba, Sen. de Ira, 3, 14 fin.; cf.

lacrimas,

i. e. to repress, Ov. F. 4, 845; id. M. 13, 540:

gemitus,

Sen. Ep. 66 med. —

Of property, to consume, to waste, = exhaurire:

omnem pecuniam publicam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 76; id. Phil. 13, 2, 3; id. Pis. 21.—And with a pers. object: Si. Jamne illum comesurus es? Ba. Dum recens est, Dum datur, dum calet, devorari decet, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 26; id. As. 2, 2, 71; cf.: ut hominem devorari, cujus patrimonium consumitur, Quint. 8, 6, 25.—

Trop., to consume, destroy:

devorent vos arma vestra,

Just. 14, 4, 14; cf.:

aquilarum pinnae reliquarum alitum pinnas devorant,

Plin. 10, 3, 4, § 15:

vox devoratur,

i. e. is swallowed up, lost, id. 11, 51, 112, § 270: devoravi nomen imprudens, swallowed, i. e. I have lost, utterly forgotten, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 63: devorato pudore, Ap. M. 9, p. 225.—

Trop.

To swallow any thing unpleasant, i. e to bear patiently, to endure:

hominum ineptias ac stultitias,

Cic. Brut. 67, 236; so,

molestiam paucorum dierum,

id. Phil. 6, 6, 17:

taedium illud,

Quint. 11, 2, 41: bilem et dolorem, Tert. Res. carn. 54.—

To accept eagerly, enjoy:

quid tibi faciam qui illos libros devorasti,

Cic. Att. 7, 3, 2:

os impiorum devorat iniquitatem,

Vulg. Prov. 19, 28:

auscultate et mea dicta devorate,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 59; cf.:

orationem dulcem (aures),

id. Poen. 5, 2, 9:

verbum ipsum (voluptatis),

id. Sest. 10, 23.—

ejus oratio, nimia religione attenuata, a multitudine et a foro devorabatur, qs. swallowed but not digested (i. e. heard without being understood), Cic. Brut. 82, 283.

vŏro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [Sanscr. root gar-, to swallow; Gr. root bor- in bibrôskô, to devour; cf. also gramen], to swallow whole, swallow up, eat greedily, devour (cf. absorbeo).

Lit.:

animalium alia vorant, alia mandunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122; Plin. 10, 71, 91, § 196:

vitulum (balaena),

Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 61:

edim atque ambabus malis expletis vorem,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 73:

mella avide (apes),

Plin. 11, 19, 21, § 67:

Lucrina (ostrea),

Mart. 6, 11, 5: resinam ex melle Aegyptiam vorato, salvum feceris, swallow or gulp down, take, as medicine, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 31;

so of medicine,

Mart. 1, 88, 2; Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 24.—Prov.:

meus hic est: hamum vorat,

swallows, takes, Plaut. Curc. 3, 61; id. Truc. 1, 1, 21; cf.: hamum voras, Ambros. Tob. n. 7.—

Transf.

Of things, to devour, swallow up, overwhelm, destroy, etc.:

vorat haec (Charybdis) raptas revomitque carinas,

Ov. M. 13, 731:

navem (rapidus vortex),

Verg. A. 1, 117; cf. poet.:

agmina (vortex pugnae),

Sil. 4, 230:

corpus (ulcus),

Cels. 5, 28, 3: viam, to finish or perform quickly, Cat. 35, 7:

Thracia quinque vadis Istrum vorat Amphitrite,

takes in, swallows up, Claud. B. Get. 337.—

Of property, to use up, consume, squander:

idem in reliquis generis ejus (murrhinorum vasorum) quantum voraverit, licet existimare,

Plin. 37, 2, 7, § 19.—

Trop., to devour, i. e. to acquire with eagerness, pursue passionately (rare but class.):

litteras,

Cic. Att. 4, 11, 2. —In mal. part., Cat. 80, 6; Mart. 2, 51, 6; 7, 67, 15.—

To consume, waste:

amor vorat tectas penitus medullas,

Sen. Hippol. 282; 642.

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haurĭo, hausi, haustum, 4 (archaic imperf. hauribant, Lucr. 5, 1324; perf. subj. haurierint, Varr. ap. Prisc. p. 905 P.; part. perf. haurītus, App. M. 3, p. 139; 6, p. 178; supin. hauritu, id. ib. 2, p. 121; part. fut. hauritura, Juv. in Joh. 2, 253:

hausurus,

Verg. A. 4, 383; Sil. 7, 584; 16, 11:

hausturus,

Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 1; dep. perf. foramen fama est lucem hausum, Sol. 5, 15), v. a. [perh. for haus-io; cf. hio, hisco; prop. to empty], to draw up or out, to draw (class., esp. freq. in the transf. and trop. signif.; cf. sorbeo).

Lit., to draw water, etc.:

cum vidisset haustam aquam de jugi puteo, terrae motum dixit instare,

Cic. Div. 1, 50, 112:

palmis hausta duabus aqua,

Ov. F. 2, 294:

is neque limo Turbatam haurit aquam,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 60:

ipse manus hausta victrices abluit unda,

Ov. M. 4, 740.— Absol.:

num igitur, si potare velit, de dolio sibi hauriendum putet?

Cic. Brut. 83, 288. —Prov.: de faece haurire, to draw from the dregs, i. e. to choose the worst:

tu quidem de faece hauris,

i. e. speak of the worst orators, id. ib. 69, 244.—

Transf.

To drain, drink up; to spill, shed:

ita vina ex libidine hauriuntur, atque etiam praemio invitatur ebrietas (shortly before and after, bibere),

Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 140; cf. id. ib. § 146; and: cui non audita est obscoenae Salmacis undae Aethiopesque lacus, quos si quis faucibus hausit, Aut furit [p. 843] aut, etc., Ov. M. 15, 320 (for which:

qui ex Clitorio lacu biberint,

Plin. 31, 2, 13, § 16):

quae (pocula) simul arenti sitientes hausimus ore,

i. e. drained, emptied, drunk off, Ov. M. 14, 277; so,

cratera,

id. ib. 8, 680:

spumantem pateram,

Verg. A. 1, 738: statim me perculso ad meum sanguinem hauriendum, et spirante re publica ad ejus spolia detrahenda advolaverunt, to drain, i. e. to spill, shed, Cic. Sest. 24, 54:

cruorem,

Ov. M. 7, 333; 13, 331:

nudantis cervicem jugulumque, et reliquum sanguinem jubentes haurire,

Liv. 22, 51, 7; Lact. 5, 1, 8:

quem (sanguinem) civiles hauserunt,

Luc. 1, 13.—

Of things:

imoque a gurgite pontus Vertitur et canas alveus haurit aquas,

draws in, lets in, Ov. F. 3, 591: jam flammae tulerint, inimicus et hauserit ensis, drunk up, i. e. their blood, Verg. A. 2, 600.—

In gen., to tear up, pluck out, draw out, to take to one's self, take; to swallow, devour, consume, exhaust:

(ventus) Arbusta evolvens radicibus haurit ab imis,

Lucr. 6, 141:

haurit arenas ungula,

Stat. Th. 2, 46; cf.:

humumque Effodit... terraeque immurmurat haustae,

i. e. torn up, dug up, Ov. M. 11, 187:

Actoridae magni rostro femur hausit adunco (= transfodit),

tore open, id. ib. 8, 370:

pectora ferro,

id. ib. 8, 438:

latus alicui,

Lucr. 5, 1324; Ov. M. 5, 126; 9, 412; Verg. A. 10, 314; Luc. 10, 387:

ventrem atque inguina uno alteroque ictu,

Liv. 7, 10, 10; Sil. 5, 524:

tum latus ejus gladio haurit,

Curt. 7, 2, 27:

impresso gladio jugulum ejus hausisse,

Tac. H. 1, 41 fin.:

lumen,

to pluck out the eye, Ov. M. 13, 564:

cineres haustos,

i. e. scraped up, collected, id. ib. 8, 538; so,

cineres,

id. ib. 13, 425 sq.; cf. id. ib. 14, 136:

ille cavis hausto spargit me pulvere palmis,

id. ib. 9, 35:

sumptum haurit ex aerario,

draws, takes, Cic. Agr. 2, 13, 32; cf.:

at suave est ex magno tollere acervo. Dum ex parvo nobis tantundem haurire relinquas, Cur? etc.,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 52:

quia dentibus carent, aut lambunt cibos aut integros hauriunt,

to swallow, Col. 8, 17, 11; cf.:

solidos haurire cervos taurosque,

Plin. 8, 14, 14, § 36: hausisti patrias luxuriosus opes, qs. hast swallowed up, devoured, consumed, Mart. 9, 83, 4:

nos tellus haurit,

Sil. 3, 654; cf.:

sua haurire,

Tac. A. 16, 18; 2, 8; 3, 72:

animam recipere auramque communem haurire,

i. e. inhale, breathe, Quint. 6 praef. §

12: suspiratus,

fetching a deep sigh, Ov. M. 14, 129: hauriat hunc oculis ignem crudelis ab alto Dardanus, may he swallow with his eyes, i. e. greedily look at, Verg. A. 4, 661; so,

aliquid oculis,

ib. 12, 946; Sil. 11, 284;

and without oculis: caelum,

Verg. A. 10, 899; cf.:

lucem (primae pecudes),

i. e. to see the light, be born, Verg. G. 2, 340:

vocemque his auribus hausi,

I received his voice with these ears, id. A. 4, 359; so,

dicta auribus,

Ov. M. 13, 787; cf.:

oculis auribusque tantum gaudium,

Liv. 27, 51:

hauriri urbes terrae hiatibus,

to be swallowed up, Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 119; cf.:

cum praealtis paludibus arma, equi haurirentur,

Tac. H. 5, 15:

altitudine et mollitia nivis hauriebantur,

id. ib. 1, 79:

hauriuntur gurgitibus,

id. A. 1, 70:

aggerem ac vineas incendium hausit,

Liv. 5, 7, 3:

cunctos incendium hausit,

Tac. H. 4, 60:

miratur et haurit Pectore ignes,

imbibes, Ov. M. 10, 253; cf.:

flammasque latentes Hausit,

id. ib. 8, 325:

caelo medium Sol igneus orbem Hauserat,

i. e. had rapidly passed through, finished, Verg. G. 4, 427:

vastum iter,

Stat. Th. 1, 369: bracchia Cancri (Titan), Col. poët. 10, 313: cum spes arrectae juvenum exsultantiaque haurit Corda pavor pulsans, exhausts = exhaurit, Verg. G. 3, 105:

pariter pallorque ruborque Purpureas hausere genas,

Stat. Th. 1, 538.—

Trop., to draw, borrow, take, drink in, derive:

sequimur potissimum Stoicos, non ut interpretes, sed, ut solemus, e fontibus eorum judicio arbitrioque nostro, quantum quoque modo videbitur, hauriemus,

Cic. Off. 1, 2, 6; cf.:

fontes, unde hauriretis,

id. de Or. 1, 46, 203:

a fontibus potius haurire quam rivulos consectari,

id. Ac. 1, 2, 8:

reconditis atque abditis e fontibus haurire,

id. de Or. 1, 3, 12:

omnia dixi hausta e fonte naturae,

id. Fin. 1, 21, 71:

eodem fonte haurire laudes suas,

id. Fam. 6, 6, 9; id. Caecin. 27, 78:

quam (legem) non didicimus, accepimus, legimus, verum ex natura ipsa arripuimus, hausimus, expressimus,

id. Mil. 4, 10 (quoted in Cic. Or. 49, 165):

quas (artes) cum domo haurire non posses, arcessivisti ex urbe ea (i. e. Athenis), quae, etc.,

id. Brut. 97, 332:

ex divinitate, unde omnes animos haustos aut acceptos aut libatos haberemus,

id. Div. 2, 11, 26; cf.:

animos hominum quadam ex parte extrinsecus esse tractos et haustos,

id. ib. 1, 32, 70:

quid enim non sorbere animo, quid non haurire cogitatione, cujus sanguinem non bibere censetis?

id. Phil. 11, 5, 10; cf.:

libertatem sitiens hausit,

id. Rep. 1, 43:

voluptates undique,

id. Tusc. 5, 6, 16:

dolorem,

id. Cael. 24, 59:

calamitates,

id. Tusc. 1, 35, 86:

luctum,

id. Sest. 29, 63:

unde laboris Plus haurire mali est quam ex re decerpere fructus,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 79:

animo spem turbidus hausit inanem,

drank in illusive hope, Verg. A. 10, 648:

expugnationes urbium, populationes agrorum, raptus Penatium hauserant animo,

had thought of, intended, Tac. H. 1, 51:

supplicia,

to suffer, Verg. A. 4, 383:

(Thessali) velut ex diutina siti nimis avide meram haurientes libertatem,

indulging, revelling in, Liv. 39, 26, 7; cf.:

studium philosophiae acriter hausisse,

Tac. Agr. 4.

sorbĕo, ŭi, 2 (collat. forms: pres. subj. sorbamus, App. M. 2, p. 119; perf. sorpsi, acc. to Charis. p. 217, and Diom. p. 363; cf. the compounds), v. a. [akin with Gr. rhopheô; cf. O. H. Germ. swarb, swirbil, whirlpool], to sup up, suck in, drink down, swallow (freq. and class.).

Lit. (class.;

syn. haurio): hominum sanguinem,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 5:

calidum sanguinem ex homine,

Plin. 28, 1, 2, § 4:

crudum ovum,

id. 29, 3, 11, § 42; Luc. 7, 843:

margaritas aceto liquefactas,

Suet. Calig. 37 et saep.— Absol.:

sorbet dormiens,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 6 sq. —Prov.: simul flare sorbereque haud facile, to drink and whistle at the same time, i. e. to do two things at once, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 104.—

Transf., to suck in, draw in, swallow up, absorb ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose), Lucr. 6, 1130:

(Charybdis vastos) Sorbet in abruptum fluctus,

Verg. A. 3, 422:

fretum,

Ov. M. 7, 64:

flumina,

id. ib. 1, 40:

sorbent avidae praecordia flammae,

id. ib. 9, 172:

(quae sorbuit terrae hiatus),

Plin. 2, 80, 82, § 194:

minus sorbet politura charta,

id. 13, 12, 25, § 81:

quā sorbeat aëra sannā Tullia,

Juv. 6, 306.—

Trop., to swallow down, endure, bear, brook, etc.:

quid eum non sorbere animo, quid non haurire cogitatione, cuius sanguinem non bibere censetis?

Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 10:

odia (corresp. to concoquere),

id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 5.

, ( Hirundo rustica erythrogaster)

ENG swallow, barn swallow, (common swallow)

NLD boerenzwaluw

GER Rauchschwalbe

FRA hirondelle de cheminee

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