1. aequor — Lewis & Short
aequor, ŏris, n.aequus.
I In gen., an even, level surface (ante-Aug. poet.; only once in Cic. and once in Sallust): speculorum aequor, a plane surface, as of a mirror, Lucr. 4, 106; 291:
in summo aequore saxi,upon the polished, smooth marble surface, id. 3, 905: camporum patentium aequora, * Cic. Div. 1, 42:
campi,Verg. A. 7, 781;
and without campus: Daren ardens agit aequore toto,id. ib. 5, 456:
at prius ignotum ferro quam scindimus aequor,id. G. 1, 50; 1, 97;
of the desert,id. ib. 2, 105:
immensum spatiis confecimus aequor,id. ib. 541:
primus in aequore pulvis,Juv. 8, 61; and once of the heavens: aequora caeli Sensimus sonere, Att. ap. Non. 505, 8 (Trag. Rel. p. 139 Rib.).—
II Esp., the even surface of the sea in its quiet state, the calm. smooth sea (
aequor mare appellatum, quod aequatum, cum commotum vento non est,Varr. L. L. 7, § 23 Müll.: quid tam planum videtur quam mare? ex quo etiam aequor illud poëtae vocant, Cic. Ac. Fragm. ap. Non. 65, 2 (cf. po/ntou pla/c, Pind. P. 1, 24).— Also, in gen., the sea, even when agitated by storms, Lucr. 1, 719:
turbantibus aequora ventis,id. 2, 1:
silvaeque et saeva quiērant aequora,Verg. A. 4, 523 et saep.:
per undosum aequor,id. ib. 313:
contracta pisces aequora sentiunt,Hor. C. 3, 1, 33:
juventus Infecit aequor sanguine Punico,id. ib. 3, 6, 34 al.—Sometimes pleonast. with mare or pontus:
vastum maris aequor arandum,Verg. A. 2, 780:
tellus et aequora ponti,id. G. 1, 469.—Of the surface of the Tiber, Verg. A. 8, 89 and 96 (so, mare of the Timavus, id. ib. 1, 246;
and unda of rivers, as of the Simoïs,id. ib. 1, 618).—In prose writers after the Aug. per.:
placidum aequor,Tac. A. 2, 23:
penetrare aequora,Val. Max. 9, 1, 1; so Curt. 4, 7; Plin. 4, 12, 24, § 76; Mel. 1, 2. Once even in Sallust: aequore et terrā, Sall. Fragm. ap. Don. ad Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 13 (p. 390, n. 81 Kritz.) dub.