Meate & prouision easie to be gotten, not costly. Fœdus. Hor. Frugi. Quint. Infœlix. Vir. An hard liuing, or feeding on poore meates. Inops. Ouid. Luxuriosus. Quint. Malignus. Sil. If sauouring meates. Mundus. Hor. Parcus & parabilis. Curt. Thriftlly liuing on such meats as are good cheape and easie to be gotten. Sordidus. Quint. Tenuis. Ci. Alitur corpus victu. Lucr. With meate and drinke. Attenuans victus, Vide ATTENVO. Carere omni cultu & victu humano. Ci. Nec ego victum, nec vitam illam colere possum. Ci. I can not so feede, nor leade that maner of life. Hominum vita multum distat cultu & victu bestiariÛ. Ci. Ministrare victum, Vide MINISTRO. Mutare aliquid ex consuetudine victus. Cels. To chaunge some what of his wonted maner of feeding. Seges ægra negabat victum. Virg. Corne not proouing wel was not able to finde men. Tolerare victum lacte. Col. To liue by milke. Salubri & moderato cultu atque victu, quieti se tradidit. Cic. He betooke himselfe to quietnesse, and was contented with meane and holesome prouision for hys meate, drinke, and apparel. Vita victusq; communis in amicitijs vigent maximè. Cice.

I. A.. Lit. (very freq. in the poets and Tac., but not found in Cic.): asserculi asperantur, ne sint advolantibus lubrici, Col. 8, 3, 6: tum enim (apes) propter laborem asperantur ac macescunt, become rough, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 20: cum torpent apes, nec caloribus asperantur, Pall. 7, 7, 2: (vinum myrtites) limum dysentericae passionis medicabiliter asperare, i. e. excrementa solidiora reddere, id. 3, 31, 2: Et glacialis hiemps aquilonibus asperat undas, throws into commotion, Verg. A. 3, 285; so Luc. 8, 195; Val. Fl. 2, 435: Minervae pectus asperare hydris, Prud. peri\ stef. 14, 275.—

B. Transf., to furnish with a rough, wounding exterior (cf. 1. asper, I.): sagittas inopiā ferri ossibus asperant, to point, Tac. G. 46.—Hence, also, to whet, to sharpen: pugionem vetustate obtusum asperari saxo jussit, Tac. A. 15, 54: abruptaque saxa asperat, Luc. 6, 801 (cf. id. 7, 139: nisi cautibus asper Exarsit mucro, and exaspero).—

II. Trop., to make fierce, to rouse up, excite, exasperate: indomitos praeceps discordia fratres asperat, Stat. Th. 1, 137: hunc quoque asperavere carmina in saevitiam, Tac. A. 1, 72 fin.; 3, 12: ubi asperatum Vitellium satis patuit iis, qui etc., id. H. 3, 38: ne lenire neve asperare crimina videretur, to make more severe, to aggravate, heighten, id. A. 2, 29: iram victoris, id. H. 2, 48.