Rigo, rigas. rigâre. Pli. To water a fielde, or garment: to make wette.Conspergere & rigare. Colum. To sprinckle and water: to make moiste.Arma cruore rigare. Virgil. To embrewe the harnesse wyth bloud. Lux solis rigat cælum. Lucret.Indigno teneras imbre rigante genas.Ouid.Hortus rigatur fronte.Ouid.Ora rigantur aquis.Ouid.Hir face is al wet with teares.Ora rigauit fletibus.Ouid.Lachrymis vultum & ora rigare. Vir. Rore rigare. Ci. To moist with dew.Rigant venæ sanguinem vitalem membris. Plin. Ingenia omnium rigare, Author ad Heren.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĭgo āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [cf. Gr. bre/xw, to wet; Germ. Regen, rain]. I.To wet, moisten, water, bedew any thing with a liquid (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: irrigo, madefacio). A.Lit.: imbres omnia maria ac terras sparguntque rigantque, Lucr. 6, 612: Nilus rigat Aegyptum, id. 6, 714; Hor. C. 3, 3, 48 (for which, irrigat, Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 130); so, prata (fons), Lucr. 5, 602; Ov. F. 5, 210; cf.: lucum perenni aquā (fons). Liv. 1, 21: campos (Euphratis) accolae, Plin. 6, 27, 31, 130: arbores, id. 17, 26, 40, 249; cf. seminaria (opp. conspergere), Col. 5, 6, 8: quā Tanais Getas rigat, Tib. 4, 1, 146: lacrimis ora, Verg. A. 9, 251: fletibus ora, Ov. M. 11, 419; id. P. 2, 11, 9; id. A. A. 1, 532; Luc. 4, 180; Sen. Hippol. 990 al.—Absol.: nubes nimbique rigantes, Lucr. 6, 521; so, accolae, Curt. 8, 9, 10.—2.Poet., transf.: natos vitali rore, i. e. to suckle, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 20: solis uti lux ac vapor cernuntur terras rigare,
bedew
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flood
, Lucr. 4, 203; cf. id. 5, 592: Babylonica, to wet (sc. with urine), id. 4, 1026.— B.Trop., to water, bedew, etc.: omnium ingenia, Auct. Her. 4, 6, 9: ora alicujus Philetaeā aquā, Prop. 3 (4), 3, 52; Ov. Am. 3, 9, 26.— II. Like irrigo, to lead, convey, or conduct water or any other liquid to a place (very rare). A.Lit.: aquam Albanam emissam per agros rigabis (= ad rigandum diduces), an old oracle in Liv. 5, 16 fin. Drak. N. cr.: vitalem sanguinem per venas, Plin. 11, 37, 69, 182. — B.Trop.: hinc motus per membra rigantur,
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conveyed
, Lucr. 2, 262: somnum per pectora, Furius ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (for which, irrigat, Lucr. 4, 908; Verg. A. 1, 692).