sicco — Lewis & Short
sicco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.id..
I Act., to make dry, to dry, to dry up.
A In gen. (freq. and class.):
venti et sol siccare prius confidunt omnia posse,Lucr. 5, 390; cf.:
sol siccaverat herbas,Ov. M. 4, 82:
siccabat rorantes capillos,id. F. 4, 141:
sole capillos,id. M. 11, 770; Plin. 27, 9, 55, § 79:
aliquid in sole,Col. 12, 46, 5; Plin. 12, 13, 27, § 47:
aliquid ad lunam,id. 21, 11, 36, § 62:
lina madentia,Ov. M. 13, 931:
retia litore,id. ib. 11, 362:
vellera,Verg. E. 3, 95:
veste cruores,id. A. 4, 687:
cruorem,Gell. 5, 14, 22:
lacrimas,Prop. 1, 19, 23; Ov. M. 8, 469; 9, 395; id. F. 3, 509:
jocis lacrimas siccare,Quint. 11, 1, 6 al.:
genas,Ov. M. 10, 362:
frontem sudario,Quint. 11, 3, 148.—
B Esp.
1 To dry up, drain land, marshes, springs, etc.:
paludes,Cic. Phil. 5, 3, 7; so,
paludem,Quint. 3, 8, 16; Suet. Caes. 44:
amnes,Ov. M. 2, 257:
fontes,id. ib. 13, 690; cf.:
palustria aestate siccantur,Plin. 12, 22, 48, § 104:
agri siccati,drained lands, lands uncovered by draining, Suet. Claud. 20:
dea Sidereo siccata sitim collegit ab aestu,parched, Ov. M. 6, 341.—
2 To exhaust, drain dry, etc. (poet.):
ovis ubera,Verg. E. 2, 42; so,
distenta ubera,Hor. Epod. 2, 46;
for which, transf.: distentas siccant pecudes,Luc. 4, 314; so,
siccata ovis,i. e. milked, Ov. Am. 3, 5, 14:
calices,i. e. to drain, empty, Hor. S. 2, 6, 68;
so. cadis siccatis,id. C. 1, 35, 27; cf.: cum siccare sacram largo Permessida posset Ore, to drink deeply from the fountain of the Muses, i. e. to be a great poet, Mart. 8, 70, 3.—In Gr. construction:
Arethusa virides manu siccata capillos,Ov. M. 5, 575.—
3 To dry up, heal up, remore an unwholesome humor; or, to heal up, free some part of the body from an unwholesome humor (poet. and in the elder Pliny): ad pituitam oris siccandam. Plin. 23, 1, 13, § 17: suppurata, id. 36, 17, 28, § 133:
strumas,id. 24, 4, 6, § 11:
corpora,id. 31, 6, 33, § 62:
os,id. 12, 12, 26, § 43:
arterias umidas,id. 20, 14, 53, § 148; cf.: corpus pilā, i. e. to strengthen, invigorate, Lucil. ap. Non. 394, 29;
v. siccitas, I. B. 3.: vulnera,Ov. M. 10, 187; cf.:
ad fluminis undam Vulnera siccabat lymphis,Verg. A. 10, 834;
for which, in a Gr. construction: juvenes siccati vulnera lymphis,Stat. Th. 1, 527.—
II Neutr., to become dry, get dry (very rare):
quotiens flumina et stagna siccaverint,Lact. 7, 3, 8: tundis cuminum et postea infundis in aceto;
cum siccaverit, etc.,Apic. 3, 18, § 105; 4, 2, § 132 al.—Impers.:
ubi pluerit et siccaverit,Cato, R. R. 112, 2.