tŭmĭdus — Lewis & Short
tŭmĭdus, a, um, adj.tumeo,
I swollen, swelling, rising high, protuberant, tumid (class.).
I Lit.:
membrum tumidum ac turgidum,Cic. Tusc. 3, 9, 19:
serpens inflato collo, tumidis cervicibus,id. Vatin. 2, 4:
Python,Ov. M. 1, 460:
Echidnae,id. ib. 10, 313:
venter,id. Am. 2, 14, 15:
papillae,id. R. Am. 338:
virginitas,i. e. with swelling breasts, Stat. Th. 2, 204:
mare,Verg. A. 8, 671:
aequor,id. ib. 3, 157; Ov. M. 14, 544:
fluctus,id. ib. 11, 480:
Nilus,Hor. C. 3, 3, 48:
vela,id. Ep. 2, 2, 201:
montes,Ov. Am. 2, 16, 51:
terrae Germaniae,Tac. A. 2, 23 Ritter; cf.
Nipperd. ad loc. (Halm, umidis): crudi tumidique lavemur,i. e. swollen, stuffed with food, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 61.—Comp.:
oculi,Cels. 2, 6:
humus,Col. 4, 1, 3.—
II Trop.
A Swollen or swelling with passionate excitement; excited, incensed, enraged, exasperated; puffed up, elated, haughty, arrogant; restless, violent, ready to break out (mostly poet.; not in Cic.);
with anger: tumida ex irā tum corda residunt,Verg. A. 6, 407:
ōs,Hor. A. P. 94:
es tumidus genitoris imagine falsi,Ov. M. 1, 754.—With pride, Ov. M. 8, 396; 8, 495; Hor. S. 1, 7, 7:
sermo,id. ib. 2, 5, 98:
minae,id. C. 4, 3, 8:
cum tumidum est cor,i. e. swells with ambition, Hor. S. 2, 3, 213:
tumidi minantur,swelling with rage, Stat. Achill. 1, 155:
ingenia genti tumida,Just. 41, 3, 7:
tumidae gentium inflataeque cervices,Flor. 4, 12, 2:
quem tumidum ac sui jactantem et ambitiosum institorem eloquentiae videat,Quint. 11, 1, 50.—Sup.:
(Alexander) tumidissimum animal,most arrogant, Sen. Ben. 2, 16, 2:
Eridani tumidissimus accola Celtae,most seditious, Sil. 11, 25.—
B Of style, etc.
1 Of the orator himself, bombastic, pompous:
fiunt pro grandibus tumidi,Quint. 10, 2, 16:
quem (Ciceronem) et suorum homines temporum incessere audebant ut tumidiorem, ut Asianum et redundantem,id. 12, 10, 12.—
2 Of speech, inflated, turgid, tumid, bombastic:
non negaverim et totam Asiae regionem inaniora parere ingenia et nostrorum tumidiorem sermonem esse,Liv. 45, 23, 16:
quod alibi magnificum, tumidum alibi,Quint. 8, 3, 18:
visus es mihi in scriptis meis annotasse quaedam ut tumida, quae ego sublimia arbitrabar,Plin. Ep. 9, 26, 5; 7, 12, 4; Quint. 8, 3, 13; 8, 3, 56; 2, 5, 10:
sufflati atque tumidi,Gell. 7, 14, 5.— Comp.:
tumidior sermo,Liv. 45, 23, 16:
ut tibi tumidius videretur, quod est sonantius et elatius,Plin. Ep. 7, 12, 4:
fuisset tumidius, si, etc.,Quint. 11, 1, 28.—
III Act., puffing up, causing to swell:
tumidoque inflatur carbasus Austro,Verg. A. 3, 357 Forbig. ad loc.:
nec tumidos causabitur Euros,Ov. Am. 1, 9, 13.—Trop.:
Qui nunc in tumidum jactando venit honorem,Prop. 2, 24, 31 (3, 16, 15) Paley ad loc.—Hence, adv.: tŭmĭdē (acc. to II. A.), haughtily, pompously:
tumidissime dixit Murrhedius,Sen. Contr. 4, 25 fin.