To feede: to nourish: to sinde all things necessary, as meate, drinke, cloth: to increase: to augment: to maintaine. Copias militum alere. Cic. Alit binos fœtus vbere. Virg. Alunt rhombos æquora. Horat. Aluêre victum mortalium glandiferæ arbores. Plin. Gaue foode to man. Aluntur asperitate aquarum arbores. Plin. Tellus alit saxa. Lucret. Alere aliquid & maius facere. Ci. Alere & sustentare. Cic. Ali & augeri. Cic. Ali & augescere. Cic. Ali & crescere. Cic. Ali & sustineri. Cic. Re frumentaria ali. Cic. Alimur certis ab rebus. Lucret. Viduitate & solitudine alicuius ali. Cic. Cibus alit. Lucr. Agellus quum cum non satis álere, ludimagister fuit. Cic. When his land did not finde him sufficiently. Ali victu. Lucret. Pax aluitvites. Tibullus. Vsus alit aliquid. Cic. Mainteineth. Alere se consumptione & senio sui. Cic. Ali formidine mortis. Lucret. Diuitijs alitur amor. Ouid. Is nourished or mainteined. Cogitatione aliquid alere. Cic. Audaciam alere. Cic. Bellum. Liu. To mainteine warre. Capillúm alere. Plin. To keepe his haire trimme. Consuetudo alitur. Cic. Controuersiam alere. Cæs. To mainteine. Copiam veiborum. Cic. Culpam. Propert. Flammas. Ouid. Furor effrænatus alitur impunitate diuturna. Cic. Gloriam alere. Cic. Ira leones alit. Stat. Memoria aliquid alere. Cic. Mens hominis alitur discendo. Cic. Mans minde is fed and mainteined. Aliquid monstri alunt. Terent. They bring some monstrous creature. Morbum alere. Cic. To mainteine. Res alicuius aluntur memotia aliorum. Cic. Sitim alere. Ouid. To increase. Speam. Cicer. Ali spe. Ouid. Staturam. Cæsar. Vires alere. Cæsar. Vitam alicuius alit posteritas Cic. Vitium alitur. Virg. Vulnus alere. Virg. Alere mollius more nutricum. Quint. To chearish. Plenius alit viua vox. Quint. Pluribus minore fastidio alitur stomachus. Quint.

High: deepe: excellent: glorious: auncient: noble: great: haut: lustie: secret: hid. Altus pedes quinque. Caro. Fiue foote high. Alti colles attolluntur. Plin. Altus aceruus. Lucret. Gælum altum. Virg. Ceruices altæ. Virg. Gradus altos euadere, Virg. Humus alta. Horat. Iter altum ire. Virg. Iuba alta. Senec. Montes alti. Virg. Lunam altam suspiciens. Virg. Nemora alta. Virg. Nix alta. Horat. Præsepes altæ. Virg. Via alta arque ardua. Cic. A high and rough way vpon the mountaines. Altissimus nobis cæli complexus. Cic. Editus in altum. Cic. Lifted vp on high: set a lost. Ex altissimo dignitatis gradu præcipitari. Cic. In altissimo amplisimóque gradu dignitatis locati. Cic. In altissimo gradu positus alienis opibus. Cic. Altus. Virg. Excellent. Alta & exaggerata oratio. Cic. A high and loftie stile. Altior spiritus. Ouid. A haute or lustie courage. Alta tapeta. Virg. Excellent. Vir altus & excellens. Cic. Of a high courage. Altus vultus. Horat. Reiecit alto dona nocentium Vultu. With a high and slout countenaunce. Altus homo. Virg. A great or excellent person. Altissimus æstus. Plin. An exeeeding great heate. Magaus & altus vir. Cic. Of noble courage. Alta mente præditus homo. Cicer. Of great and excellent wisedome. Altus. Virg. Noble. Altus Aeneas. Horat. Alta Carthago. Virg.

I. Lit.: quem ego nefrendem alui, Liv. And. ap. Fest. s. v. nefrendes, p. 163 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 5 Rib.): Athenis natus altusque, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 36: alebat eos, Vulg. Gen. 47, 12: esurientes alebat, ib. Tob. 1, 20.—With natus, educatus, or a similar word, several times: Alui, educavi, Att. ap. Non. 422, 14 (Trag. Rel. p. 150 Rib.): cum Hannibale alto atque educato inter arma, Liv. 30, 28 (cf. II. infra): aut equos Alere aut canes ad venandum, Ter. And. 1, 1, 30; id. Hec. 4, 4, 49: alere nolunt hominem edacem, id. Phorm. 2, 2, 21: quoniam cibus auget corpus alitque, Lucr. 1, 859; 5, 221 al.: quae etiam aleret adulescentes, Cic. Cael. 38: milites, id. Verr. 5, 80: nautas, id. ib. 5, 87: exercitum, id. Deiot. 24: magnum numerum equitatus, Caes. B. G. 1, 18: cum agellus eum non satis aleret, Cic. N. D. 1, 26, 72; so Nep. Phoc. 1, 4: locus ille, ubi altus aut doctus est, Cic. Planc. 33, 81: quibus animantes aluntur, id. N. D. 2, 19: (animus) aletur et sustentabitur isdem rebus, quibus astra sustentantur et aluntur, id. Tusc. 1, 19, 43 al.: latrociniis se suosque alebat, Caes. B. G. 8, 47; 1, 18: quos manus aut lingua perjurio aut sanguine civili alebat, Sall. C. 14, 3; cf. Kritz ad Sall. C. 37, 3; Nep. Arist. 3 fin.: ut nepotem elephantos alere prohiberet, Cic. Phil. 9, 4: canes, id. Sex. Rosc. 56: quod alerentur regiones eorum ab illo, Vulg. Act. 12, 20: velut amnis imbres Quem super notas aluere ripas, have swollen, Hor. C. 4, 2, 5: rhombos aequora alebant, id. S. 2, 2, 48 al.; Ov. M. 9, 339; 3, 411; and in a paradoxical phrase: infelix minuendo corpus alebat, and sustained his body by consuming it, i. e. nourished himself by his own flesh, id. ib. 8, 878 al.—Hence in pass. with the abl. = vesci, to be nourished or sustained with or by something, to live or feed upon: panico vetere atque hordeo corrupto omnes alebantur, Caes. B. C. 2, 22: quia viperinis carnibus alantur, Plin. 7, 2, 2, 27: locustis eos ali, etc., id. 7, 2, 2, 29: hoc cibo aliti sunt, Vulg. Exod. 16, 35.—

II. Fig., to nourish, cherish, promote, increase, strengthen: honos alit artes, Cic. Tusc. 1, 2, 4: in eā ipsā urbe, in quā et nata et alta sit eloquentia, id. Brut. 10, 39: hominis mens alitur discendo et cogitando, id. Off. 1, 30: haec studia adulescentiam alunt, id. Arch. 7, 16; cf. Ochsn. Eclog. 134 al.: civitas, quam ipse semper aluisset, i. e. whose prosperity he had always promoted, Caes. B. G. 7, 33: vires, id. ib. 4, 1: nolo meis impensis illorum ali augerique luxuriam, Nep. Phoc. 1 fin.: alere morbum, id. Att. 21 fin.: insita hominibus libido alendi de industriā rumores, Liv. 28, 24: regina Vulnus alit venis, Verg. A. 4, 2: divitiis alitur luxuriosus amor, Ov. R. Am. 746: alitur diutius controversia, Caes. B. G. 7, 32: quid alat formetque poëtam, Hor. A. P. 307 al.—Hence, altus, a, um.