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fomentum

fomentum · n

a warm application

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Where it lives

Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
De Medicina 24 · 2.34/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 6 · 1.37/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 3 · 1.22/10k
Ex Ponto 2 · 0.96/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.94/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fōmentum — Lewis & Short

fōmentum, i, n.contr. from fovimentum from foveo,

I a warm application, warm lotion or poultice, fomentation.

I Lit.: calida, Cels. 2, 17 med.: aquae calidae, id. 8, 10, 7: calida, sicca, id. 3, 11 init.; 4, 14; cf. Suet. Aug. 81: assideat, fomenta paret, Hor. S. 1, 1, 82: adhibere, Col. 6, 30, 3: (juvant) fomenta podagrum, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 52: fomenta vulneribus nulla, i. e. bandages (before, ligamenta), Tac. A. 15, 55.—

B Transf., for fomes, touch-wood, kindling-wood: se ex arboribus fomenta excidisse, Clod. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 176: fomenta ignium varia, Amm. 20, 7, 12.—

II Trop.

A A lenitive, mitigation, alleviation: haec sunt solatia, haec fomenta summorum dolorum, Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 59; cf.: patentiae, fortitudinis fomentis dolor mitigari solet, id. Fin. 2, 29, 95: militaribus animis adhibenda fomenta, ut ferre pacem velint, Tac. A. 1, 46: paupertati suae fomenta conquirere, App. M. 2, p. 124; Quint. 4, 3, 10: ut haec ingrata ventis dividat Fomenta, vulnus nil malum levantia, i. e. consolations, Hor. Epod. 11, 17.—

B Poet. transf., nourishment: quodsi frigida curarum fomenta relinquere posses, Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 26.

In the wild

fomentis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.2
fomentisque Celsus, De Medicina 3.12
fomenta Celsus, De Medicina 4.11.p3
fomentis Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 1.M6
fomenta Tacitus, Annales 1.p70
fomentis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.12.5

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