turns from the hot region of heaven to the wintry sign of Capricorn

aestīvus, a, um, adj. [aestas], of or pertaining to summer, summer-like, summer (freq. and class.):

Quo pacto aestivis e partibus Aegocerotis Brumalīs adeat flexus,

turns from the hot region of heaven to the wintry sign of Capricorn, Lucr. 5, 615; so id. 5, 639:

aestivos menses rei militari dare, hibernos juris dictioni,

Cic. Att. 5, 14:

tempora, dies,

summer time, summer days, id. Verr. 2, 5, 31:

sol,

Verg. G. 4, 28:

aura,

Hor. C. 1, 22, 18:

umbra,

Ov. M. 13, 793:

rus,

Mart. 8, 61:

per aestivos saltus deviasque calles exercitum ducimus,

through woods, where flocks were driven for summer pasture, Liv. 22, 14:

aves,

summer birds, id. 5, 6:

animalia,

the insects of summer, Plin. 9, 47, 71, § 154:

expeditiones,

which were undertaken in summer, Vell. 2, 114: castra, a summer camp (constructed differently from a winter camp), Suet. Claud. 1.—Hence,

Subst.: aestīva, ōrum, n.

For a summer camp, ta therina:

dum in aestivis essemus,

Cic. Att. 5, 17; id. Fam. 2, 13: aestiva praetoris, of a pleasure-camp, pleasurehouse, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 37.—

The time appropriate for a campaign (cf. aestas; often continuing until December; v. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 2, 7);

hence,

a campaign, Cic. Pis. 40: aestivis confectis, after the campaign was ended (which did not take place until the Saturnalia, XIV. Kal. Januar.), id. Fam. 3, 9 fin.:

perducere aestiva in mensem Decembrem,

Vell. 2, 105.—

Summer pastures for cattle:

per montium aestiva,

Plin. 24, 6, 19, § 28.— Meton. for the cattle themselves:

Nec singula morbi Corpora corripiunt, sed tota aestiva,

Verg. G. 3, 472.— Hence, * adv.: aestīvē, in a summer-like manner, as in summer: admodum aestive viaticati sumus, we are furnished in a very summer-like manner with money for our journey, i. e. we have but little (the figure taken from the light dress of summer;

or, acc. to others, from the scanty provisions which soldiers took with them in summer),

Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 30.