Aether, ætheris, pen. cor. mas gen. sine plurali. The element of fire.Aether ex aere gignitur.The fire. Aether pro Aere.Virg.The aire. Aether, pro Cælo.Ouid.The firmament: the skie. Aether pro Lumine. Valer. Flac. Light: brightnesse. Albus æther. Catul. Altus. Virgil. Apertus. Virg. Arduus. Virg.Aureus æther, pro Cælo splendido.Ouid.Bright skie.Clarus.Senec. Idem. Diffusilis æther. Luc. The firmament spread on euery fide, or euery way.Igneus. Val Flac. Ignifer. Cic. Immensus. Cic.Innubilus. Lucret. Læuus. Stat. Lætus. Claud. Leuis. Virgil. Liber nubibus. Lucan. Cleare and faire weather, without clowdes.Liquidus.Virg. Nitidus Val. Flac.Perlucens.Cic. Peruius. Ouid. Rapidus. Lucret. Vbi eos pater æther, id est, Iuppiter.Sacer.Ouid. Serenus. Lucan. Signifer. Lucret. Stellatus.Val. Flac. Summus. Ouid. Teouis. Cic.Tenuissimus.Cic. Vastus. Virg. Grauitate carens æther.Ouid.Ferit æthera clamor nauticus.Virg.Mulcere æthera canru.Virg.To sing.Obumbrare æthera telis.Virg.To shadow or make darcke the ayre.Onerare æthera votis. Virgil. Purgatus æther, discussis. nubibus. Sillius. Relonat æther clamoribus.Virg.The ayre ringeth.Verberare alis æthera.Virg.To flie.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
aether, ĕris (sometimes Gr. gen. aetheros; acc. reg. Gr. aethera; and so Stat. S. 4, 225; id. Th. 3, 525; but poetry and prose of that per. also use aetherem, Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 13; cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 58; plur. in late Lat. aethera, Ven. Fort. Carm. 3, 9, 7), m., = ai)qh/r [v. aestas], the upper, pure, bright air, the ether.I. In gen. A.Lit. (opp. aër, the lower atmospheric air): restat ultimus omnia cingens et coërcens caeli complexus, qui idem aether vocatur, extrema ora et determinatio mundi; in quo cum admirabilitate maxima igneae formae cursus ordinatos definiunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 40: (astra) oriuntur in ardore caelesti, qui aether vel caelum nominatur, id. ib. 2, 15.—B.Transf., in the poets, 1.Heaven: Id, quod nostri caelum memorant, Graii perhibent aethera, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, 17 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 87 Rib.): famā super aethera notus, Verg. A. 1, 379: rex aetheris altus Juppiter, id. ib. 12, 140: regna profundi aetheros, Stat. Th. 3, 524. —2.Air, in gen.: clamor ad caelum volvendus per aethera vagit, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, 104 Müll. (Ann. v. 520 Vahl.): ignem ignes procudunt aetheraque aether, Lucr. 2, 1115: ferar per liquidum aethera Vates, Hor. C. 2, 20, 2: nudoque sub aetheris axe, Verg. A. 2, 512; 8, 28: apes liquidum trans aethera vectae, id. ib. 7, 65; Sil. 2, 513 al.— 3. In opp. to the lower world, the upper world, the earth: aethere in alto duros perferre labores, Verg. A. 6, 436.— 4.The brightness surrounding a deity: aethere plena corusco Pallas, Val. Fl. 5, 183.—II. Aether personified, son of Chaos, and father of Cœlum, Cic. N. D. 3, 17 al.; also Jupiter, Cic. Ac. 2, 41. So in the poets often: pater Aether, Lucr. 1, 250: pater omnipotens Aether, Verg. G. 2, 325.
