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exaestuo

exaestuo · v. n

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Where it lives

De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 6 · 0.81/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ex-aestŭo — Lewis & Short

ex-aestŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and

I a., to boil up, foam up, ferment (not freq. till after the Aug. period; in Cic. and Caes. not at all).

I Neut.

A Lit.

1 In gen.: exaestuat mare, Liv. 26, 42 fin.; Curt. 6, 4: fretum, id. 4, 2: unda ima verticibus, Verg. G. 3, 240: Aetna fundo imo, id. A. 3, 577: bitumen e terra, Just. 1, 2, 7: Nilus in fossas, Suet. Aug, 18.—

2 In partic., to effervesce, to glow with heat: Aegyptus torrenti calore solis exaestuat, Just. 2, 1, 16.— Absol.: ut exaestuarat, had overheated himself, Suet. Tib. 72 med.—

B Trop.: mens exaestuat irā, Verg. A. 9, 798; so, irā, Ov. M. 6, 623; 13, 559; Stat. Th. 11, 297: dolor exaestuat intus, Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 63; cf. ignis (amoris), id. M. 13, 867; poet.: vates magno igni, Luc. 5, 173.—

II Act., to boil up with, to give forth, exhale (very rarely): hos igitur tellus omnes exaestuat aestus, Lucr. 6, 816; so, aestus, id. 2, 1137.

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