undo — Lewis & Short
undo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and
I a. [unda].
I Neutr., to rise in waves or surges, to throw up waves, to surge, swell (poet. and in postAug. prose).
A Lit.: undantem salum, Enn. ap. Non. 223, 24 (Trag. v. 226 Vahl.); cf.: undanti in freto, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 35, 89:
solet aestus aequinoctialis ... undare,Sen. Q. N. 3, 28, 6:
ad caelum undabat vortex,Verg. A. 12, 673:
aëna undantia flammis,id. ib. 6, 218.—
B Transf.
1 To overflow with, be full of, abound in any thing, = abundare:
regio Undat equis floretque viris,Val. Fl. 1, 539:
vultus sanguine,Stat. Th. 1, 449:
silva favis,Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 25:
ima (aedium) viris,id. VI. Cons. Hon. 545.—
2 To wave, undulate:
vidimus undantem ruptis fornacibus Aetnam,Verg. G. 1, 472:
undantes flammae,Sil. 9, 446:
undante fumo,Sen. Troad. 19:
undans buxo Cytorus,Verg. G. 2, 437:
undans chlamys,Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 55:
undantes habenae,waving, flowing, hanging loosely, Verg. A. 12, 471; so,
undantia lora,id. ib. 5, 146:
ipsa (puella) decenter undabat,undulated, App. M. 2, p. 117, 38.—
C Trop., to waver, fluctuate, be agitated:
undans curis,Val. Fl. 5, 304:
undantes spumis furialibus irae,Claud. in Ruf. 1, 76.—
II Act. (very rare), to overflow, inundate, deluge:
sanguine campos,Stat. Achill. 1, 87:
sinus cruore,Claud. in Ruf. 2, 67.—P. a.: undātus, a, um, in a wavy or wave-like form:
concharum genera imbricatim undata, cancellatim reticulata,Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 103.—Hence, undan-ter, adv., in a waving manner, like waves:
capillus undanter fluens,App. M. 2, p. 122, 7 (al. fluenter undans):
evomere talia,Mart. Cap. 2, § 138.