Aestuo, æstuas, æstuâre, Aestu feruere, Iuuen. Cicero. To mare hoate: to burne: to cast vp hoate vapours as a pot seething: to be troublous as the sea is, to be tossed with sourges.Aer æstuat, Propert.Scaldeth or burneth.Caloribus æstuare. Colum. Aestuare desyderio.Cic.To haue a feruent desire.Dies æstuat. Lucan. The day is exceeding hoate.Humor æstuat.Scaldeth.Ignis æstuat.Virg.Burneth.Mare æstuar, Id est, agitat. Curtius. Is cossed with trouhlous sourges.Ventus æstuat in eum locÛ. Suet. Beareth troublously vpon. Aestuare. Cicero. To be in great trouble and anguishe of minde: to be in a great fums or heate.Aestuat in aurum. Claud. He burneth in couetousnesse: he is passing couecous.Pudor æstuat in corde.Virg. Insolenter æstuare. Cat. To be in great fume or snuffe.Lenius æstuare.Ouid.To loue lesse: not to be so bole or feruent in loue.Aestuare & tergiuersari.Cic.To be in a great fume.Aestuat dubitatione.Cic.He is in great doubt or perpleritie: he can not tell what to doe.Aestuare inuidia.Salust.To be in great hatred.Aestuans animus. Catal. A minde in great trouble and perpleritie: that can not cell what to doe.Aestuatia resrigerare. Plin. Aestuatio. Verbale. Plin. A vehement motion or vnquietnesse of minde: couetousnesse: greedy desire.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
aestŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. [aestus], to be in agilation or in violent commotion, to move to and fro, to rage, to toss, to boil up.I.Lit.A. Of fire, to rage, burn: aestuat ut clausis rapidus fornacibus ignis,
as the fire heaves and roars in the closed furnaces
, Verg. G. 4, 263: tectus magis aestuat ignis, Ov. M. 4, 64.—Hence, 2. Of the effect of fire, to be warm or hot, to burn, glow; both objectively, I am warm (Fr. je suis chaud), and subjectively, it is warm to me, I feel warm (Fr. j'ai chaud). a.Object.: nunc dum occasio est, dum scribilitae aestuant (while the cakes are warm) occurrite, Plaut. Poen. prol. 43; Verg. G. 1, 107: torridus aestuat aër,
glows
, Prop. 3, 24, 3; Luc. 1, 16. —b.Subject., to feel warmth or heat (weaker than sudare, to sweat, and opp. algere, to be cold, to feel cold; v. Doed. Syn. 3, 89): Lycurgi leges erudiunt juventutem esuriendo, sitiendo, algendo, aestuando, Cic. Tusc. 2, 14, 34: ille cum aestuaret, umbram secutus est, id. Ac. 2, 22: sub pondere, Ov. M. 12, 514; Juv. 3, 103.—B. Of the undulating, heaving motion of the sea, to rise in waves or billows (cf. aestus): Maura unda, Hor. C. 2, 6, 4: gurges, Verg. A. 6, 296.—C. Of other things, to have an undulating, waving motion, to be tossed, to heave: in ossibus umor, Verg. G. 4, 308: ventis pulsa aestuat arbor, Lucr. 5, 1097; Gell. 17, 11, 5. —Of an agitated crowd, Prud. 11, 228.—II.Trop.A. Of the passions, love, desire, envy, jealousy, etc., to burn with desire, to be in violent, passionate excitement, to be agitated or excited, to be inflamed: quod ubi auditum est, aestuare (hist. inf.) illi, qui dederant pecuniam, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 23: quae cum dies noctesque aestuans agitaret, Sall. J. 93: desiderio alicujus, Cic. Fam. 7, 18: invidiā, Sall. C. 23: ingens in corde pudor, Verg. A. 12, 666: at rex Odrysius in illa Aestuat, Ov. M. 6, 490 (cf. uri in id. ib. 7, 22; and ardere in id, ib. 9, 724); Mart. 9, 23: aestuat (Alexander) infelix angusto limite mundi (the figure is derived from the swelling and raging of the sea when confined), Juv. 10, 169; so Luc. 6, 63.—B. Esp. in prose, to waver, to vacillate, to hesitate, to be uncertain or in doubt, to be undecided: dubitatione, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 30: quod petiit, spernit; repetit quod nuper omisit; Aestuat et vitae disconvenit ordine toto, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 99: sic anceps inter utramque animus aestuat, Quint. 10, 7, 33; Suet. Claud. 4: aestuante rege, Just. 1, 10.