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ĭmĭtor, ātus, 1 (archaic inf. pres. imitarier, Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 25; Lucr. 5, 1377), v. freq. a. dep. [root im-, cf. aemulus], to imitate.

To represent, to express, copy, portray (class.):

summum illum luctum penicillo,

to portray, Cic. Or. 22, 74; cf.:

oris (Coae Veneris) pulchritudo reliqui corporis imitandi spem auferebat,

id. Off. 3, 2, 10:

aut Ialysi aut Coae Veneris pulchritudinem,

id. Or. 2, 5; id. Brut. 18, 70:

chirographum,

id. N. D. 3, 30, 74; id. Fam. 9, 20, 2:

faber ungues Exprimet et molles imitabitur aere capillos,

Hor. A. P. 33; cf.:

argillā quidvis imitabitur udā,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 8:

hunc in persona lenonis,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 7, 20:

populi speciem et nomen,

id. Rep. 3, 33:

antiquitatem,

id. Brut. 36, 137; cf.:

heroum veteres casus fictosque luctus imitari atque adumbrare dicendo,

id. de Or. 5, 47, 380:

imitans, ut est mos, facta et dicta vivi,

Suet. Vesp. 19:

sine imitandorum carminum actu ludiones,

not expressing by gesticulation, Liv. 7, 2, 4:

gaudia falsa,

Tib. 3, 6, 33; cf.

maestitiam,

Tac. A. 1, 24:

quaecumque (pictura) imitata figuram est,

Juv. 6, 341.— Poet.: putre solum imitamur arando, i. e. to make loose or friable, Verg. G. 2, 204:

robore duro Stipitibus ferrum sudibusque imitantur obustis,

replace, substitute, supply the place of, id. A. 11, 894:

pocula vitea fermento atque sorbis,

id. G. 3, 380; cf.:

diuturni mores consensu utentium comprobati legem imitantur,

Just. Inst. 1, 2, 9. —

To imitate, to act like, copy after, seek to resemble, counterfeit something (so most freq.):

imitabor nepam,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 7:

imitabor ergo Aratum, qui magnis de rebus dicere exordiens, a Jove incipiendum putat,

Cic. Rep. 1, 36; cf.:

imitor Archytam,

id. ib. 1, 38:

Platonem,

id. Ac. 1, 3, 10:

aliquem imitando effingere atque exprimere,

id. de Or. 2, 22, 90; cf.:

quem (eloquentem) si imitari atque exprimere non possumus,

id. Or. 5, 19:

quem postea imitati sunt multi, aequavit nemo,

Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 126:

ipsi sibi imitandi fuerunt,

Cic. Or. 53, 177:

qui maxime imitandus, et solus imitandus est,

Quint. 10, 2, 24; cf.:

tu mihi maxime imitabilis, maxime imitandus videbaris,

Plin. Ep. 7, 20, 4:

noster ille amicus, dignus huic ad imitandum,

Cic. Rep. 1, 1 Mos.:

populi consuetudinem,

id. ib. 2, 20:

non dicam plura, ne, in quo te objurgem, id ipsum videar imitari,

id. Fam. 3, 8, 6:

in adeundis periculis consuetudo imitanda medicorum est,

id. Off. 1, 24, 83:

quod faciendum imitandumque est omnibus, ut, etc.,

id. Lael. 19, 70:

factum praeclarum expositum ad imitandum,

id. Phil. 2, 44, 114:

in qua (sc. domo) sollicitas imitatur janua portas,

resembles, Juv. 7, 42.

Act. form ĭmĭto, āre (anteclass.): si malos imitabo, Liv. Andr. ap. Non. 473, 22 (Fragm. Trag. v. 1 Rib.):

tuum opus nemo imitare potest,

Varr. ib. 21.—

ĭmĭtātus, a, um, in pass. signif.:

imitata et efficta simulacra,

Cic. Univ. 3, 6:

cum sint alii veri affectus, alii ficti et imitati,

Quint. 11, 3, 61:

nec abest imitata voluptas,

Ov. M. 9, 481; Avien. Fab. 5, 17.

Lyaeus, i, m., = Luaios, Lyæus, the relaxer, unbender, deliverer from care.

A surname of Bacchus:

patri Lyaeo,

Verg. A. 4, 58:

corniger Lyaeus,

Ov. Am. 3, 15, 17; id. M. 4, 11; 8, 274; 11, 68; Verg. G. 2, 229 al.—

Transf., wine:

uda Lyaeo Tempora,

Hor. C. 1, 7, 22:

Curam Dulci Lyaeo solvere,

id. Epod. 9, 37:

illic apposito narrabis multa Lyaeo,

Ov. Am. 2, 11, 49.— Hence, Lyaeus, a, um, adj.: regales inter mensas laticemque Lyaeum, the Lyæan liquid, i. e. wine, Verg. A. 1, 686.

sūdus, a, um, adj. [se-udus; cf.: sudum siccum quasi seudum id est sine udo, Fest. pp. 294 and 295 Müll.], without moisture, dry; and of the weather, cloudless, bright, clear (class.; cf. serenus).

Adj.: ventorum flamina suda, Lucil. ap. Non. 31, 19:

flamen venti,

Varr. ib. 234, 7:

ver,

Verg. G. 4, 77:

tempestas,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 42, 27:

splendor luminis,

id. M. 11, p. 260, 30:

cuncta specula vel uda vel suda videre,

id. Mag. p. 283, 37.—Adverb.:

sudum,

brightly, Prud. Cath. 7, 79.—

Subst.: sūdum, i, n., bright, clear weather:

cum sudum est,

Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 2:

horologium mittam et libros, si erit sudum,

Cic. Fam. 16, 18, 3:

dum sudum est,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 35:

arma Per sudum rutilare vident,

Verg. A. 8, 529; Val. Fl. 2, 115.—

Somewhat moist = subudus;

ardentia viscera adhuc suda de sanguine,

Arn. 7, 3.

sūdus, a, um, adj. [se-udus; cf.: sudum siccum quasi seudum id est sine udo, Fest. pp. 294 and 295 Müll.], without moisture, dry; and of the weather, cloudless, bright, clear (class.; cf. serenus).

Adj.: ventorum flamina suda, Lucil. ap. Non. 31, 19:

flamen venti,

Varr. ib. 234, 7:

ver,

Verg. G. 4, 77:

tempestas,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 42, 27:

splendor luminis,

id. M. 11, p. 260, 30:

cuncta specula vel uda vel suda videre,

id. Mag. p. 283, 37.—Adverb.:

sudum,

brightly, Prud. Cath. 7, 79.—

Subst.: sūdum, i, n., bright, clear weather:

cum sudum est,

Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 2:

horologium mittam et libros, si erit sudum,

Cic. Fam. 16, 18, 3:

dum sudum est,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 35:

arma Per sudum rutilare vident,

Verg. A. 8, 529; Val. Fl. 2, 115.—

Somewhat moist = subudus;

ardentia viscera adhuc suda de sanguine,

Arn. 7, 3.

unda, ae, f. [Sanscr. root ud-, und-, to be wet; whence, uda, water; Angl. -Sax. ydhu, wave; Slav. voda, water; Gr. hudôr, huades; Goth. vatō, water], a wave, billow, surge (syn. fluctus).

Lit.:

mare plenum undarum,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 33: unda, cum est pulsa remis, purpurascit, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 162, 30:

via, quae fert Acherontis ad undas,

Verg. A. 6, 295; Lucr. 1, 374; 1, 380; 3, 494; Hor. C. 1, 12, 32; 4, 14, 20; id. Ep. 2, 2, 176; Ov. M. 1, 570.—

Collect.: prora remissa subito navem undae adfligebat,

Liv. 24, 34, 11.—

Transf.

In gen.

Water, moisture (mostly poet.; cf.:

aqua, lympha): (Proteus) flumen eras, interdum undis contrarius ignis,

Ov. M. 8, 737:

fontis in undā,

id. ib. 4, 98; cf.:

fons tenui perlucidus undā,

id. ib. 3, 161:

(Noti) canis fluit unda capillis,

id. ib. 1, 266:

nivales,

snow-water, Mart. 14, 118, 1: ignem Pollux undamque jugalem Praetulit, fire and water, as symbols of housekeeping, Val. Fl. 8, 245, hence, faciunt justos ignis et unda viros, i. e. real, proper husbands, Ov. A. A. 2, 598.—

A fluid, liquid. manans naribus unda Sangninis, Sil. 10, 245:

preli,

i. e. oil, Plin. 15, 1, 2, § 5:

croci,

Mart. 8, 33. 4;

13, 40, 1.—Cf the lava from Ætna,

Lucil. Aet. 303.—

Of wavelike things ( poet.): aëriae, i. e. the air, Lucr. [p. 1930] 2, 152:

quā plurimus undam Fumus agit,

Verg. A. 8, 257.—Of a lion's mane, Mart. 8, 55, 10.—

In architecture, for the Gr. cymatium (kumation, a little wave), a talon, ogee, Vitr. 5, 7.—

Trop., of the wavelike agitation of a multitude, etc., a surge, billow, stream, tide, = aestus:

campus atque illae undae comitiorum,

Cic. Planc. 6, 15:

nunc agilis fio et mersor civilibus undis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 16:

adversis rerum immersabilis undis,

id. ib. 1, 2, 22:

curarum,

Cat. 64, 62:

bellorum,

Claud. in Eutr. 2, 507:

salutantūm unda,

a stream, crowd, throng, Verg. G. 2, 462; so,

undae Boiorum,

Sil. 4, 159.