Aestus, huius æstus, m. g. Virg.Heate of the weather: burning of the sunne.Aestus.Virg.Great heate, such as commeth at the mouth of an oueu.Aestus maris. Plin. The troublous motion, rage or violence of the sea: the ehhing and flowing of the sea.Marinus siue maritimus æstus.Cic.Vasti æstus maris. Catul. Aestus maris accedunt, reciprocant, affluunt, remeant, intumescunt, residentes, inundantes, se sorbentes, reflui, reciproci, Plin.The troublous waues of, &c.Aestus maris crescit, decedit, recedit. Plin. The flowing of.Aestus maris modici, exundant, feruent, mitescunt, pares, augentur, mitiores, tumenres. inanes. Plin. Feruet æstu pelagus.Cic. Aestu frangitur mare. Lucret. Furit æstus arenis. Virgil. The raging sourges rore on the sandes. Aestus, pro Mari æstuoso.Virg.The troublous sea. Aestus, cranslatum ad animum.Cic.Great heate, and vehement trouble of mind: a passion, or rage.Aestus gloriæ.Cic.A hoat and vehement desire of glorie.Fluctuare æstu curarum.Virg.So to be troubled with care, as he can not tell what to doe.Magnus irarum æstus.Virg.A raging pange or troublous motion of anger.Inter æstus iracÛdiæ fluctuare.Macrob.So to be tossed with angrie passions, as he can not tell what to doe.Aestus ingenij.Cic.A vehement pange or rage.Aestus consuerudinis. Cicero. The force or vehemencie of custome.Commouere æstus belli. Lucr. To sirre troubles of warre. Aestus.Ouid.Vehement lone: heate of. Aestus, Agitatio & difficultas. Quint. Aestus, vlceris.Cic.The sinarting paine of a sore or bile. Aestus, Dubitatio Solicitudo. Plin. innior. Doubtfulnesse or flitting of the minde: daubtfull care what to one.Anceps æstus.Senec.A doubtfull wauering or tossing. Ardens æstus.Virg. Calidi æstus. Lucret. Dubius æstus. Claud. Feruidus æstus. Horat. Grauis æstus. Horat. Great tossing of minde grieuous to be suffered.Horriferi æstus. Lucrer. Terrible troubles of minde.Ignaui estus. Ab effectu, quod ignauos homines reddãt. Ou. Incenios æstus auertere, Id est febrem.Virg.Letiferi æstus.Ouid. Medij æstus, hocest Meridies. Virg.Aestus mustulennis.Plaut.The soming or sprsnckling vp of new wine, in ale me call it working.Rabidi æstus, Id est calores. Ausonius. Rapidus æstus.Virg.Vehement heate.Sicci æstus. Colum. Steriles æstus. Claud Heate that maketh the earth baraine.Sydereus æstus.Ouid.Heate of the sunue.Torrens æstus. Plin. Parching heate.Validus æstus.Ouid.Vehement. Exæstuare æstus. Lucret. Id est, ebullit: efflat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
aestus, ūs (archaic gen. aesti, Pac. 97 Rib.; rare form of nom. plur. aestuus). m. [kind. with aestas and Gr. ai)/qw; v. aestas], an undulating, boiling, waving, tossing; a waving, heaving, billowy motion.I.Lit.A. Of fire; hence, in gen., fire, glow, heat (orig. in relation to its flashing up; while fervor denotes a glowing, ardor a burning, and calor a warming heat; yet it was early used for warming heat; v. the following example): nam fretus ipse anni permiscet frigus et aestum,
heat and cold are blended
, Lucr. 6, 364 (for which calor, id. 6, 368, 371 al.): multa aestu victa per agros, id. 5, 1104: exsuperant flammae, furit aestus ad auras, Verg. A. 2, 759: caniculae, Hor. C. 1, 17, 18; so id. Ep. 1, 8, 5: labore et aestu languidus, Sall. J. 51.—In plur.: neque frigora neque aestus facile tolerabat, Suet. Aug. 81.—So of midday heat: aestibus at mediis umbrosam exquirere vallem, Verg. G. 3, 331 (cf. Cic. Ac. 2, 22: ille cum aestuaret, umbram secutus est).—And of the heat of disease (of wounds, fever, inflammation, etc.): ulceris aestus, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 7, 19: homines aegri cum aestu febrique jactantur, Cic. Cat. 1, 13.—B.The undulating, heaving motion of the sea, the swell, surge: fervet aestu pelagus, Pac. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 39; hence, meton. for the sea in agitation, waves, billows: delphines aestum secabant, Verg. A. 8, 674: furit aestus harenis, id. ib. 1, 107: aestus totos campos inundaverant, Curt. 9, 9, 18.—In Verg. once of the boiling up of water in a vessel: exsultant aestu latices, Aen. 7, 464.—C. Esp., the periodical flux and reflux or ebb and flow of the sea, the tide (cf. Varr. L. L. 9, 19; Mel. 3, 1: aestus maris accedere et reciprocare maxime mirum, pluribus quidem modis, sed causa in sole lunāque, Plin. 2, 97, 99); Plaut. As. 1, 3, 6: quid de fretis aut de marinis aestibus dicam? quorum accessus et recessus (flow and ebb) lunae motu gubernantur, Cic. Div. 2, 14 fin.: crescens, Plin. 2, 100, 97, 219: decedens, id. ib.: recedens, id. 2, 98, 101, 220: secundus, in our favor, Sall. Fragm. ap. Gell. 10, 26, 2: adversus, against us, id. ap. Non. 138, 8.— II.Trop.A.The passionate ferment or commotion of the mind, the fire, glow, ardor of any (even a good) passion (cf. aestuo, II. A.): et belli magnos commovit funditus aestus (genus humanum),
has stirred up from their very bottom the waves of discord
, Lucr. 5, 1434: civilis belli aestus, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 47 (cf. id. C. 2, 7, 15): repente te quasi quidam aestus ingenii tui procul a terrā abripuit atque in altum abstraxit, Cic. de Or. 3, 36: hunc absorbuit aestus quidam gloriae, id. Brut. 81: stultorum regum et populorum continet aestus, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 8: perstet et, ut pelagi, sic pectoris adjuvet aestum,
the glow of love
, Ov. H. 16, 25.—B.A vacillating, irresolute state of mind, doubt, uncertainty, hesitation, trouble, embarrassment, anxiely: qui tibi aestus, qui error, quae tenebrae, Cic. Div. in Caecin. 14: vario fluctuat aestu, Verg. A. 12, 486: amor magno irarum fluctuat aestu, id. ib. 4, 532; cf. id. ib. 8, 19: aestus curaeque graves, Hor. S. 1, 2, 110.—C. In the Epicurean philos. lang. of Lucretius, the undulatory flow or stream of atoms, atomic efflux, as the cause of perception (cf. affluo, I.): Perpetuoque fluunt certis ab rebus odores, Frigus ut a fluviis, calor ab sole, aestus ab undis Aequoris, exesor moerorum litora propter, etc., Lucr. 6, 926; and in id. 6, 1002 sq., the magnetic fluid is several times designated by aestus lapidis.