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ebullio

ebullio · v. n

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What it meant

ē-bullĭo — Lewis & Short

ē-bullĭo, īre, 4 (and post-class. ēbullo, āre, 1), v. n. and

I a.
I Neutr., to boil up, bubble up (post-class.).
A Lit.: fontium venae ebullant, Tert. de Pall. 2.—
B Trop., to come forth bubbling, to appear boisterously: dum risus ebullit App. M. 2, p. 128.—Poet.: o si Ebullit patrui praeclarum funus! i. e. utinam patruus moriatur, Pers. 2, 10 Dübner: priusquam hujus monstri idoli artifices ebullissent, Tert. Idol. 3: de Perside, to hurry confusedly away, Vulg. 2 Mac. 1, 12.—
II Act. (class., but rare).
A Lit.: animam, i. e. to breathe out, give up the ghost, Sen. Apoc. 4, 2; Petr. 42, 3; 62, 10.—
B To produce in abundance: et ebulliet fluvius ranas, Vulg. Exod. 8, 3; cf.: os fatuorum ebullit stultitiam, id. Prov. 15, 2.—Trop.: virtutes, i. e. to boast of, Cic. Tusc. 3, 18, 42 Kühn; cf. id. Fin. 5, 27, 80 (and the Gr. pafla/zein).

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Where it came from

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Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.