aestīvus — Lewis & Short
aestīvus, a, um, adj.aestas,
I 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, Cic. 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,
II Subst.: aestīva, ōrum, n.
A For a summer camp, ta\ qerina/:
dum in aestivis essemus,Cic. Att. 5, 17; id. Fam. 2, 13: aestiva praetoris, of a pleasure-camp, pleasurehouse, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 37.—
B 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.—
C 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.