[Remark: this dictionary entry has no valid XML/HTML content in database so a text version of this entry is shown.]: <orth>Sterno</orth>, sternis, steraui, stratum, stérnere. <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <p> <sense><trans lang="en">To throw down: to spread: to couer: to lay the table: to make plain or smooth: to ly down to rest.</trans> <I>Flores humi sternere, & sternere humum floribus, Idem.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To strawe flowers on the ground.</trans> <I>Sternere equos.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To saddle and make ready horses.</trans> <I>Sternere lectos.</I> <bibl><author>Terent.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To make beddes.</trans> <I>Lectum illum filiæ suæ nubentis strauerat.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <I>Torus sternitur.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> <I>Triclinia sternere.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To lay and make ready tables in the hall.</trans> <I>Iuuenci cæsi strauere terram.</I> <bibl><author>Virg.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">The earth was couered with beastes killed for sacrisice.</trans> <I>Venti placidi strauerunt æquora.</I> <bibl><author>Virg.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Ouiet windes made calme the sea.</trans> <I>Fama tibi strauit benignum iter.</I> <bibl><author>Stat.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Fame made thee haue a faire and good iourney.</trans> <I>Iter argento sternunt.</I> Lucr. <trans lang="en">They couer the way with mony: they straw money in the way.</trans> <I>Viam strauit per mare.</I> Lucre. <trans lang="en">Xerxes made a bridge or way ouer the sea at Hellespont.</trans> <I> Sternunt corpora passim.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">They cast down and kil bodies in many places.</trans> <I>Corpore toto sternitur in vultus.</I> <bibl><author>Stat.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">He lyeth downe flat on his face.</trans> <I>Humi sternere aliquem.</I> Horat. <trans lang="en">To strike one to the ground.</trans> <I>Terræ sternitur toto proiectus corpore.</I> Vir. <trans lang="en">He lieth downe flat vpon the ground.</trans> <I>Aciem sternere.</I> <bibl><author>Virg.</author></bibl> <I>Quum omni parte cæde ingenti sternerentur.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <I>Torrens rapidus sternit agros.</I> Virgili. <trans lang="en">The swift streame layeth flat to the ground all that was in the fieldes.</trans> <I>Pauor strauit corda mortalia.</I> Virgil. <trans lang="en">Feare abated mennes hartes and courages.</trans> <I>Sternere omnia ferro.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <I>Hostiliter sternit omnes.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> <I>Ictu sternere aliquem.</I> Sen. <trans lang="en">To strike one down <04> a blowe.</trans> <I>Sternere Iocum saxis.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To paue.</trans> <I>Morti sternere aliquem.</I> <bibl><author>Virg.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To strike him to the grounde and kil him.</trans> <I>Peccus ferro strauit Aiax.</I> Horat. <I>Segetes sternuntur.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Are layde flat to the grounde: are mowed or cut downe.</trans> <I>Sternitur onme solum iaculis.</I> Virgil. <trans lang="en">All the grounde was couered with dartes.</trans> <I>Telo præcipitem sternere.</I> Sil. <I>Vulnere stern.</I> i <bibl><author>Virg.</author></bibl> <I>Sternere se somno.</I> <bibl><author>Virg.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To lay himselfe downe to sleepe.</trans> </sense>
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sterno, strāvi, strātum, 3 (pluperf. sync. strarat, Manil. 1, 774: strasset, Varr. ap. Non. 86, 8), v. a. [Gr. root *s*t*o*r, store/nnumi, to spread; strato/s, camp; Sanscr. star- strnāmi = sterno; cf.: strages, struo, torus, and lātus, adj., old Lat. stlatus], to spread out, spread abroad; to stretch out, extend.I.Lit. (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; in Cic. only in the part. perf.; cf.: effundo, extendo, subicio, subdo): vestes, Ov. M. 8, 658: in duro vellus solo, id. F. 4, 654: bubulos utres ponte, Plin. 6, 29, 34, 176: hic glarea dura Sternitur, Tib. 1, 7, 60: natas sub aequore virgas Sternit, i. e.
scatters
,
strews
, Ov. M. 4, 743: harenam, id. F. 3, 813; id. Am. 2, 14, 8: herbas, id. M. 7, 254: poma passim, Verg. E. 7, 54: spongeas ad lunam et pruinas, Plin. 31, 11. 47, 123: arma per flores, Grat. Cyneg. 487: fessi sternunt corpora,
stretch out their bodies
,
lie down
, Liv. 27, 47, 9; cf.: sternunt se somno diversae in litore phocae, Verg. G. 4, 432.—Mid.: sternimur optatae gremio telluris, Verg. A. 3, 509; and: in Capitolinas certatim scanditur arces Sternunturque Jovi, Sil. 12, 340.—Part. perf.: strātus, a, um, stretched out, lying down, prostrate (syn. prostratus): strata terrae, Enn. ap. Non. 172, 20 (Trag. v. 370 Vahl.): nos humi strati, Cic. de Or. 3, 6, 22: quidam somno etiam strati, Liv. 37, 20, 5: ad pedes strati, Cic. Att. 10, 4, 3: stratum jacere et genua complecti, Quint. 6, 1, 34: nunc viridi membra sub arbuto Stratus, Hor. C. 1, 1, 21.—2. Of places, to extend: insulae Frisiorum, Chaucorum, etc.... sternuntur inter Helium ac Flevum,
, Col. 5, 4, 2 (for Nep. Milt. 5, 3, v. under rarus, II. A.).—B. In partic., to spread a thing out flat, i. e. to smooth, level (mostly poet.): sternere aequor aquis, Verg. A. 8, 89; cf.: placidi straverunt aequora venti, id. ib. 5, 763: nunc omne tibi stratum silet aequor, id. E. 9, 57: pontum, Ov. M. 11, 501: mare, Plin. 2, 47, 47, 125: stratoque super discumbitur ostro, Verg. A. 1, 700: viam per mare,
smoothed
,
levelled
, Lucr. 3, 1030 (acc. to the Gr. o(do\n store/nnumi): stratum militari labore iter, Quint. 2, 13, 16; so, hoc iter Alpes, Hoc Cannae stravere tibi, Sil. 12, 514; and trop.: praesens tibi fama benignum Stravit iter, Stat. Th. 12, 813.— 2.Trop. (the figure borrowed from the sea), to calm, still, moderate: odia militum, Tac. H. 1, 58 (cf.: constrata ira, Stat. S. 2, 5, 1).—II.Transf.A.To cover, cover over (by spreading something out; the predom. class. signif. of the word; cf. obtendo). 1. Of a couch, bed, etc., to spread, prepare, arrange, make: lectus vestimentis stratus est, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 30; cf.: strata cubilia sunt herbis, Lucr. 5, 1417: rogatus est a Maximo, ut triclinium sterneret ... Atque ille stravit pelliculis haedinis lectulos Punicanos, Cic. Mur. 36, 75; so, lectum, lectos, biclinium, triclinia, etc., Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 33; id. Most. 1, 4, 14; id. Men. 2, 3, 3; id. Bacch. 4, 4, 70; id. Ps. 1, 2, 31; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 73; id. Ad. 2, 4, 21; Cic. Clu. 5, 14; id. Tusc. 5, 21, 61; Hirt. B. G. 8, 51: his foliis cubitus sternere, Plin. 24, 9, 38, 59: torum frondibus, Juv. 6, 5: strata cathedra,
cushioned
, id. 9, 52; cf. also, ARCERAM NE STERNITO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 25; and absol.: jubet sterni sibi in primā domus parte (sc. lectum), Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 7.— 2. Esp., places, to cover; of a way, road, path, etc., to pave: aspreta erant strata saxis, Liv. 9, 35, 2: via strata, id. 8, 15, 8: semitam saxo quadrato straverunt, id. 10, 23 fin.; so, vias silice ... clivum Capitolinum silice ... emporium lapide, id. 41, 27, 5 sq.; and absol.: locum illum sternendum locare, Cic. Att. 14, 15, 2: pavimentum stratum lapide, Vulg. Ezech. 40, 17: viam lapide, Dig. 43, 11, 1.—3.To saddle: equos, Liv. 37, 20, 12; 37, 20, 4; Veg. 5, 77: asinum, Vulg. Gen. 22, 3.—4. In gen., to cover, spread: argento sternunt iter omne viarum, Lucr. 2, 626: foliis nemus Multis et algā litus inutili tempestas Sternet,
will strew over
,
bestrew
, Hor. C. 3, 17, 12: congeriem silvae vellere summam, Ov. M. 9, 236: litora nive, Val. Fl. 5, 175: harenam Circi chrysocolla, Plin. 33, 5, 27, 90: solum telis, Verg. A. 9, 666: Tyrrhenas valles caedibus, Sil. 6, 602: strati bacis silvestribus agri, Verg. G. 2, 183: ante aras terram caesi stravere juvenci,
covered
, id. A. 8, 719.—B.To stretch out by flinging down, to throw down, stretch on the ground, throw to the ground, overthrow, prostrate (mostly poet., esp. in Verg.; in prose not before the Aug. period; in Cic. only once in the trop. sense; v. the foll.; cf. profligo): cujus casus prolapsi cum proximos sterneret, Liv. 5, 47: circa jacentem ducem sterne Gallorum catervas, id. 7, 26, 8: turbam invadite ac sternite omnia ferro, id. 24, 38, 7: alius sit fortis in armis, Sternat et adversos Marte favente duces, Tib. 1, 10, 30: caede viros, Verg. A. 10, 119: aliquem leto, id. ib. 8, 566: morte, id. ib. 11, 796; Liv. 31, 21, 15; Ov. M. 12, 604: adversā prensis a fronte capillis Stravit humi pronam, id. ib. 2, 477: primosque et extremos Stravit humum, Hor. C. 4, 14, 32: sternitur volnere, Verg. A. 10, 781: impetus per stratos caede hostes, Liv. 4, 29, 1: aliquem morti, Verg. A. 12, 464: irae Thyesten exitio gravi Stravere, Hor. C. 1, 16, 18: corpore toto Sternitur in vultus, Stat. Th. 12, 318: sternitur, et toto projectus corpore terrae, Verg. A. 11, 87: toto praecipitem sternit, Sil. 4, 182: hostes, Just. 2, 11, 13: Ajax stravit ferro pecus, Hor. S. 2, 3, 202: sternitur et procumbit humi bos, Verg. A. 5, 481: strata belua texit humum, Ov. H. 10, 106: rapidus torrens Sternit agros, sternit sata laeta, Verg. A. 2, 306: moenia,
to overthrow
,
demolish
, Ov. M. 12, 550; cf.: stratis ariete muris, Liv. 1, 29, 2: sternit a culmine Trojam, Verg. A. 2, 603; so, (elephanti) stabula Indorum dentibus sternunt, Plin. 8, 9, 9, 27.—2.Trop. (rare): deorum plagā perculsi, afflictos se et stratos esse fatentur,
cast down
,
prostrated
, Cic. Tusc. 3, 29, 72: mortalia corda Per gentes humiles stravit pavor, Verg. G. 1, 331: virtus populi Romani haec omnia strata humi erexit ac sustulit, Liv. 26, 41, 12: stratā Germaniā,
subdued
, Amm. 16, 1, 5.—Hence, strātus, a, um, P. a.; as substt.A. strāta, ae, f. (sc. via), a paved road or way (post-class.), Eutr. 9, 15: amplas sternite jam stratas, Juvenc. 1, 315: in margine stratae, id. 3, 656.—B. strātum, i, n. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.; acc. to II. A.).—1.A bed-covering, a coverlet, quilt, blanket; a pillow, bolster: lecti mollia strata, Lucr. 4, 849: proripere se e strato, Suet. Calig. 51; Ov. M. 5, 34; 10, 267.— b.Meton. (pars pro toto), a bed, couch: haud segnis strato surgit Palinurus, Verg. A. 3, 513; cf. id. ib. 8, 415; 3, 176: tale, Nep. Ages. 8: quies neque molli strato neque silentio arcessita, Liv. 21, 4, 7.—Plur.: strataque quae membris intepuere tuis, Ov. H. 10, 54: dura, id. Am. 1, 2, 2; Luc. 1, 239.—Once also (sc. lectus) in the masc., Favorin. ap. Gell. 15, 8, 2.—2.A horsecloth, housing, a saddle, Ov. M. 8, 33; Liv. 7, 14, 7; Sen. Ep. 80, 9; Plin. 7, 56, 57, 202. —Prov.: qui asinum non potest, stratum caedit (v. asinum), Petr. 45, 8.—3.A pavement: saxea viarum, Lucr. 1, 315; 4, 415: extraneum, Petr. poët. 55, 6, 11.
