Medea, A notable sorceresse, daughter of king Oeta by his wife Hypsea. She entertained the aduentrous Iason comming to Colchos to winne the golden fleese, and being rauished with the loue of his goodlie personage, raught him how to escape al those daungers, that of necessitie hee muste aduenture to winne his purposed enterprise. After al which things atchieued, she ranne away with Iason, and stoke with hir Absyrtus hir yong brother. But Oeta sore displeased, that be was so betrayed by his owne daughter, pursued them with such speede, that hee hadde wel neere ouertaken them. Wherfore Medea seing that nothing could stay hir fathers haste, fearing to be taken killed the yong babe hir brother, and stattered his limmes in the way as hir father thoulde passe. With sorrow whereof and long seeking the partes of his yong sonnes bodie the father was staide, and Iasõ with Medea in the meane time escaped out of his realme. After long iourney she came with Iason bome to Thessalye, and by hir sorcerie restored to yong yeares againe his old father Aeson. In the ende Iasõ reiected hir, and married Creusa the kings daughter of Corinthe. Wherwith Medea sore grieued, and yet pretending friendship, did send vnto Creusa in manner of a present a gorgeous basket with wilde fire inclosed therein. Which when Treusa did open, sodainly it burned both hir and the pallaice where the was.
Medeor, medêris. pen. prod. medèri. Deponens. Pli. To heale: to cure: to remedie.Quas minus mederi possis. Ter. Which thou canst not cure.Contra serpentium ictus medentur. Plin. The be holesome against the stingings.Mederi vitijs & erroribus.Plin. iun.To cure vices.Mederi vulneribus per translationem.Cic.To cure or reme. die grieuous pangues.Mederi alicui.Cic.To helpe or succour one.Mederi rei alicui.Cic.To remedy a thing.Medemini religioni sociorum. conseruate vestram authoritatem. Cic.Helpe and succour the religion of.Amori mederi.Ouid.Facilimè inopiæ frumentariæ sese mederi posfe existimant. Cæ. They thinke they can easily help and remedie the scarcity of graine.Labori alicuius mederi.Ouid.Mederi Reip.Cic.To helpe and succour.Timori alicuius mederi.Ouid. Aegrescit medendo. Vi. The more he is cured the worse he waxeth.Ars medendi.Ouid.The art of phisicke.Vtilis medendi radix. Oui. A roote profitable to cure diseases.
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Mēdēa, ae (arch. gen. Medeaï, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63; v. Enn. p. 127, v. 292 Vahl.; nom. Mēdē, acc. to id. p. 130, v. 311 Vahl.), and Mēdīa, f., = *mh/deia, a celebrated sorceress, daughter of Æetes, king of Colchis. She assisted her lover, Jason the Argonaut, in obtaining the golden fleece, accompanied him to Greece, and prevented her father, who was in pursuit, from overtaking them, by strewing the sea with her brother's limbs. When Jason afterwards repudiated her, in order to marry Creusa, she killed the children she had had by him, and burned the bride to death in her palace: item ut Medea Peliam concoxit senem, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 52; Ov. M. 7, 9 sqq.; Hyg. Fab. 21, 22, 25: ne pueros coram populo Medea trucidet, Hor. A. P. 185.—The subject of tragedies by several authors, v. Quint. 10, 1, 98.—B.Transf.1. Medea Palatina, i. e. Clodia, Cic. Cael. 8, 18.—2. Medea nigra, a precious stone, so named after Medea, Plin. 37, 10, 63, 173.—Hence, II. Mēdēis, ĭdis, f.adj., Medean, magical (poet.): Medeides herbae, Ov. A. A. 2, 101.
mĕdĕor, 2, v. dep. n. [root madh, to be wise; Zend, madha, the healing art; cf. ma/qos, also medicus, re-med-ium], to heal, cure, be good for or against a disease (syn.: medico, sano, curo); constr. with dat., rarely with contra, very rarely with acc. (class.). I.Lit.A. Of pers. subjects: medico non solum morbus ejus, cui mederi volet, cognoscendus est, Cic. de Or. 2, 44, 186.—Prov.: cum capiti mederi debeam, reduviam curo, i. e.
to neglect matters of importance while attending to trifles
, Ov. A. A. 2, 735; id. M. 7, 526; Lact. 1, 18 fin.—Pass.: ut ex vino stomachi dolor medeatur, Hier. Ep. 22, 4; cf.: medendae valetudini leniendisque morbis opem adhibere, Suet. Vesp. 8.—II.Trop., to remedy, relieve, amend, correct, restore, etc. (a). With dat.: huic malo, Cic. Agr. 1, 9, 26: dies stultis quoque mederi solet, id. Fam. 7, 28, 3: incommodis omnium, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 10: afflictae et perditae rei publicae, id. Sest. 13, 31: religioni, id. Verr. 2, 4, 51, 114: inopiae rei frumentariae, Caes. B. G. 5, 24: tum satietati, tum ignorantiae lectorum,
to provide against
, Nep. Pelop. 1, 1: rei alicui lege aut decreto senatus, Tac. A. 4, 16.—(b). With acc.: quas (cupiditates) mederi possis, Ter. Phorm. 5, 4, 2; Just. Inst. 2, 7.—Pass.: aquae medendis corporibus nobiles, Vell. 2, 25, 4.—Absol.: aegrescit medendo,
his disorder increases with the remedy
, Verg. A. 12, 46.—Impers. pass.: ut huic vitio medeatur, Vitr. 6, 11.—Hence, mĕdens, entis (gen. plur. medentum, Ov. M. 15, 629), subst., a physician (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): veluti pueris absinthia tetra medentes cum dare conantur, Lucr. 1, 936; Ov. H. 21, 14: Democrates e primis medentium, Plin. 25, 8, 49, 87; Plin. Pan. 22.