Gusto, gustas, gustâte. Cæs. To taste: to smacke.Gustare aquam.Cic. Herbam. Cic. Pabula. Virg. Gustare, per translationem. Ci. To haue a little knowledge or experience in, &c.Non gustarat illam tuã philosophiam.He had not tasted, &c.Gustare aliquam partem liquidæ volupratis.Cic.Istorum omnium summatim causas, & genera ipsa gustauiCicero.Artingere & gustare sensu nostro. Cicero. To attaine to a meane taste and feeling of, &c.Gustare saluæ Reip. partem. Cic.To attaine to some parte of gonernement of the common wealt, while it is in good state, and out of danger.Gustare labris primoribus aliquod genus vitæ.Cic.To taste or wette the lippes a little: to haue a little smacke of, or a little to assay a kinde of life.Gustare sermonem alicuius. Plau. To heare what one saith.De aliquo gustare. Hor.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
gusto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [gustus], to taste, to take a little of any thing (freq. and class.; cf.: libo, manduco, edo, etc.). I.Lit.A. In gen.: cum biduum ita jejunus fuissem, ut ne aquam quidem gustarem, Cic. Fam. 7, 26, 1: leporem et gallinam et anserem gustare fas non putant, Caes. B. G. 5, 11: gustatus sanguis, Plin. 8, 16, 19, 52: celerius panis mandendus quam vinum gustandum, Cels. 4, 3: gustare de potione, Suet. Tit. 2: herba subsalsa gustanti, Plin. 21, 29, 103, 175: alypon acre gustatu ac lentum, id. 27, 4, 7, 22: aliquid de sanguine, Juv. 15, 92; 14, 85.—Prov.: primis, ut dicitur, labris gustare physiologiam, i. e.
to have a superficial knowledge of
, Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 20.—B. In partic., to take a slight meal, to take a luncheon or whet; to eat a little: Cretes, quorum nemo gustavit umquam cubans, Cic. Mur. 35, 74: post solem plerumque frigida lavabatur, deinde gustabat, dormiebatque minimum, Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11; Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 76.—II.Trop., to taste, partake of, enjoy: gustaras civilem sanguinem vel potius exsorbueras, Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 71: gustare partem ullam liquidae voluptatis, id. Fin. 1, 18, 58: quod si ipsi haec neque attingere neque sensu nostro gustare possemus, tamen, etc., id. Arch. 8, 17: praecepta, id. de Or. 1, 32, 145: summatim rerum causas et genera ipsa, id. ib. 2, 36, 123: Metrodorum illum, i. e.
heard
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attended for a while
, id. ib. 3, 20, 75: partem aliquam rei publicae, id. Fam. 12, 23, 3: sermonem alicujus, i. e.
