Glacies, glaciéi, pen. prod. fœm. gen. Plin. Ice.Frigidius glacie pectus.Ouid.Colder than ice.Lucidior glacie.Ouid. Aspera glacies. Virg.Astricta ventis glacies.Ouid.Ice frazen with colde windes.Cærulea glacie concretus.Virg.Frosen.Fragilis glacies.Ouid. Frigida. Virg.Futilis glacies ictu dissiluit.Virg.Brickle glasse was quickly dashed asunder.Indurata glacies.Liu.Ice frozen hard.Iners stat glacies. Hor. Lubrica glacies Liu. Niualis glacies. Claud. Saucia sole incerto glacies Ouid.Ice beginning to melte or relent with the weake heate of the sunne.Ignis exoluit glaciem. Lucr. Fire melted the ice.Flumina truduot glaciem.Virg.
Glacio, glacias, glaciâre. Plin. To congeale: to freeze: to turne to ice. Actiuè. Humor glaciatur in gemmas. Plin. Iuppiter glaciat niues. Horat. Glaciari. Plin. To be frozen or congealed. Passiuè.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
glăcĭes, ēi, f. [root in Gr. ga/la, galakt-; cf. glaga/w, to be milky, etc.; Germ. Gletscher; v. gelu], ice (cf.; gelu, pruina). I.Lit.: sol glaciem dissolvit, Lucr. 6, 963; so ib. 878: ne teneras glacies secet aspera plantas, Verg. E. 10, 49; Hor. C. 2, 9, 5; Ov. M. 2, 808; 13, 795; Plin. 8, 28, 42, 103: lubrica,
glăcĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [glacies] (not ante-Aug.). I.Act., to make or turn into ice; in pass., to freeze, congeal.A.Lit.: positas ut glaciet nives Puro numine Juppiter, Hor. C. 3, 10, 7: humor glaciatur arescitve in gemmas, Plin. 8, 38, 57, 137; cf. id. 2, 39, 39, 105: ruptis vasis (vini) stetere glaciatae moles, id. 14, 21, 27, 132; 24, 13, 72, 116.—2.Transf., to render hard or solid: nec dubium quin fici ramulis glaciatus caseus jucundissime sapiat, Col. 7, 8, 2.—B.Trop.: stupet anxius alto Corda metu glaciante pater, Stat. Th. 10, 622.—II.Neutr., to become hard, to harden: (unguentum) fit hieme, quoniam aestate non glaciat, nisi acceptā cerā, Plin. 29, 3, 13, 56.
