1. tŭmĕo — Lewis & Short
tŭmĕo, ēre, v. n.Sanscr. tu-, taumi, tavīmi, to be strong; Gr. tu/los, tu/lh, lump; Lat. tuber, tumulus, tumor, etc.; cf. O. H. Germ. dūmo; Germ. Daumen; Engl. thumb,
I to swell, be swollen or tumid, to be puffed out or inflated (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; cf. turgeo).
I Lit.: So. Quid hoc in collo tibi tumet? Sa. Vomica'st:
pressare parce,Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 11:
corpus tumet omne veneno,Ov. M. 3, 33:
guttura plenis venis,id. ib. 3, 73:
lumina fletu,Tib. 1, 8, 68 (al. timet):
pedes,Verg. A. 2, 273:
nares ac pectus,Quint. 11, 3, 29:
fauces,id. 11, 3, 30:
inritata loca semine,Lucr. 4, 1045:
Achelous imbre,Ov. M. 8, 549:
vela sinu,Mart. Spect. 26, 6:
a vento unda,Ov. F. 2, 776:
gemma in tenero palmite,id. ib. 3, 238:
licet tumeant freta ventis,Tib. 4, 1, 194:
sacci multo hordeo,Phaedr. 2, 7, 3:
clivus molliter orbe, Claud. de Apono, 12: anni (virginis),i. e. to be ripe, Stat. Achill. 1, 292;
v. tumesco and tumidus: cujus aceto tumes?Juv. 3, 293.—Absol.:
rutam tritam imponunt contusis tumentibusque,swellings, tumors, Plin. 29, 2, 9, § 30; 15, 14, 15, § 52:
in inmensis quā tumet Ida jugis,Ov. H. 5, 138.—
II Trop.
A To swell, be swollen with passionate excitement, to be excited, violent, ready to burst forth:
sapientis animus semper vacat vitio, numquam turgescit, numquam tumet,Cic. Tusc. 3, 9, 19:
multis gentibus irā tumentibus,Liv. 31, 8, 11.—With dat. (poet.):
accensum quis bile feret famulisque tumentem Leniet?Stat. S. 2, 1, 58:
pectus anhelum, Et rabie fera corda tument,Verg. A. 6, 49; cf.:
bile jecur,Hor. C. 1, 13, 4:
nescio quid animus tumet,Sen. Thyest. 267 sq.:
animus irā,id. Phoen. 352:
leo animis,id. Troad. 1096:
tument negotia,are in a ferment, unsettled, approaching a crisis, Cic. Att. 14, 4, 1:
quoniam Galliae tumeant,Tac. H. 2, 32:
animi plebis,Plin. Pan. 28, 3:
bella,Ov. H. 7, 121.—With inf.:
mens tumet jungere, etc.,Val. Fl. 1, 199.—
B To be puffed up with pride or vanity, to swell (poët. and in post-Aug. prose):
tumens inani graculus superbiā,Phaedr. 1, 3, 4:
Mithridateis nominibus,Ov. M. 15, 755:
alto stemmate,Juv. 8, 40:
partā jam laude,Val. Fl. 3, 677:
merito,Mart. 4, 46, 2:
vana,Verg. A. 11, 854:
laudis amore tumes,Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 36:
tibicinum gloriā tumere,Plin. 37, 1, 3, § 8:
Alexander tumens successu rerum,Just. 39, 2, 1:
stirpe Alexandri,Aur. Vict. Caes. 29, 2.—
C Of speech, to be inflated, turgid, pompous, bombastic (post-Aug. and rare):
nec Ciceroni obtrectatores defuisse, quibus inflatus et tumens .. videretur,Tac. Or. 18; Quint. 8, 3, 18:
Musa nec insano syrmate nostra tumet,Mart. 4, 49, 8.