Bilis, huius bilis, dicitur Græcis Cholera. Cic.Cholar: sometime auger.Acri bile tumet. Pers. Bilis atra, dicitur Melancholia.Plaut.Melancholy.Difficilis bilis. Horat. Vnpeaceable wrath.Libera bilis. Horat. Vpon anker not repressed with seare.Luridæ bilis suffusio. Seneca. Mediocri bile ferre aliquid. Iuuenal. Redundante bile morbi nascuntur.Cic.When choler abundeth.Splendida bilis. Horat. Anger, making one disclose all that he hath in his stomacke.Vitrea bilis turgescit. Pers. That sheweth a mans stomacke as it were a glasse. Commota bile feruere. Pers. To be very angrie.Effundere bilem. Iuuenal. To shewe his stomacke.Expellere bilem Helleboro. Horat. Inæstuat bilis præcordijs. Horat. Boyleth.Intumuit mascula bilis. Pers. Great cholar was mooued.Bilem alicui mouere. Martial. To make angrie.Purgare bilem. Horat. Percitus arra bili.Plaut.Being in great chaafe.Reddere bilem.To vomit or cast vp. Celsus. Nonnunquam stomachus primùm rufam bilÊ per os reddit, deinde viridem, quibusdam etiam nigram. Idem, Spumans brlis aluo cum rosione redditur. Substringere bilem Vide SVBSTRINGO.Bile suffusi, & Felle suffosi, Id est, Icterici. Plin. That haue the iaundice.Alibi bilem suffusam vocat.Superans bilis. Lucret. Tumet bile iecur. Horat. Vrit bilis iecur. Horat.
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bīlis, is (abl. bili, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 95; Lucr. 4, 664; Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11; bile, Hor. C. 1, 13, 4; Petr. 124, 2; Plin. 22, 20, 23, 49; Suet. Tib. 59; Pers. 2, 14; Juv. 13, 143; Inscr. Grut. 1040, 3), f. [kindr. with galbus, gilbus; Germ. gelb]. I.Lit., bile (the bilious fluid secreted by the liver, jecur, while fel is the vessel in which the fluid is contained): rufa, viridis, nigra, Ceis. 7, 18; Lucr. 4, 664; Cato, R. R. 156, 4; Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 137; id. Tusc. 4, 10, 23: bilem pellere, Plin. 23, 8, 74, 142: trahere, id. 27, 4, 10, 27: detrahere, id. 27, 12, 93, 119.— In plur. biles, the yellow and black bile, Plin. 20, 9, 34, 84: purgare, Scrib. Comp. 136 (cf. poet.: purgor bilem, Hor. A. P. 302). —B. Esp.: bilis suffusa, the overflowing of bile, i.e. the jaundice, Plin. 22, 21, 26, 54 (in Sen. Ep. 95, 16, called subfusio luridae bilis).—And so, bile suffusus, having the jaundice, jaundiced, Plin. 22, 20, 23, 49.— II.Trop.A.Anger, wrath, choler, ire, displeasure, indignation (v. jecur): non placet mihi cena, quae bilem movet, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 8; so Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 20: bilem alicui commovere,
to stir up
,
excite
, Cic. Att. 2, 7, 2: bile tumet jecur, Hor. C. 1, 13, 4: meum jecur urere bilis, id. S. 1, 9, 66: bilis inaestuat praecordiis, id. Epod. 11, 16: jussit quod splendida bilis, id. S. 2, 3, 141: expulit bilem meraco, id. Ep. 2, 2, 137: bilem effundere,
to vent
, Juv. 5, 159: turgescit vitrea bilis, Pers. 3, 8: cui sententiae tantum bilis, tantum amaritudinis inest, ut, etc., Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 2: videte metuendam inimici et hostis bilem et licentiam, Cic. Fragm. Clod. et Cur. 4, 4 B. and K.—B. Atra (or nigra) bilis, black bile, for melancholy, sadness, dejection, melagxoli/a, Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11: bilem atram generantes, quos melagxolikou\s vocant, Scrib. Comp. 104.—Also as in Gr., = furor, rage, fury, madness: Am. Delirat uxor. So. Atra bili percita est, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 95; id. Capt. 3, 4, 64: bilis nigra curanda est, et ipsa furoris causa removenda, Sen. Ep. 94, 17.