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.
Rigor, rigoris, pen. pro. Plin. iun.A vehement cold: hardenesse: stifenesse.Calor & Rigor, contraria, Plin.Horridus rigor.Val. Flac. Ferri rigor.Virg.The hardenesse of yron.Rigor naturæ. Pli. Rigour and hardnes of nature: rudenes.Rigor iuris. Modest. The rigour and extremitie of the law.Rigor stillicidij. Scæuo. The roughnesse of the house eaues where raine droppeth downe.Rigor neruorum. Cels. The stiffenesse of the sinewes.
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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
,
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,
are directed
,
conveyed
, Lucr. 2, 262: somnum per pectora, Furius ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (for which, irrigat, Lucr. 4, 908; Verg. A. 1, 692).
rĭgor, ōris, m. [rigeo], stiffness, inflexibility, rigidity, numbness, hardness, firmness, rigor (not freq. till after the Aug. per.; not in Cic.; cf. durities). I.Lit.: tandem bruma nives affert pigrumque rigorem, Lucr. 5, 746: cervicis,
stiffness
,
rigidity
, Plin. 28, 12, 52, 192; 32, 8, 28, 89; cf.: immobilis faciei, Quint. 9, 3, 101: vultus (in portraits), Plin. 35, 9, 35, 58: nervorum, i. e.
a cramp
,
spasm
, Cels. 2, 1 and 7; so too simply rigor; and in plur., Plin. 26, 12, 81, 130; 35, 6, 27, 46.—B. Esp. 1.A straight course or direction: fluminis, Dig. 43, 12, 1, 5; cf. stillicidii, ib. 8, 2, 41; hence, in the agrimensores, a straight line or course (opp. flexus), Front. Expos. Form. p. 38 Goes.; Aggen. Limit. p. 46 fin.; Sicul. Fl. p. 5; Front. Colon. p. 120 al.—2.Hardness, firmness: auri, Lucr. 1, 492: ferri, Verg. G. 1, 143: saxorum, Ov. M. 1, 401 (with durities): lapidis, Plin. 36, 16, 25, 126: arborum, Vitr. 2, 9; Plin. 16, 40, 77, 209; Col. 4, 16, 4 al.—II.Transf., the stiffness produced by cold, for cold itself, chilliness, Lucr. 5, 640; 6, 368 (opp. calor); 307 (opp. ignis); cf. Alpinus, Ov. M. 14, 794: septentrionis, Tac. A. 2, 23: caeli et soli, Plin. 17, 24, 37, 217: recentissimus aquae, Col. 9, 14, 7: torpentibus rigore nervis, Liv. 21, 58 fin. et saep.— III.Trop., hardness, inflexibility, stiffness, roughness, severity, rigor (cf.: severitas, asperitas, morositas): accentus rigore quodam minus suaves habemus, Quint. 12, 10, 33 (cf. rigidus, II. init.): te tuus iste rigor, positique sine arte capilli ... decet,
rudeness
, Ov. H. 4, 77: nocuit antiquus rigor et nimia severitas, Tac. H. 1, 18 fin.: animi, id. A. 6, 50; cf. Plin. 7, 19, 18, 79; Sen. Ira, 1, 16, 13 (opp. constantia): disciplinae veteris, Tac. H. 1, 83: juris, Dig. 49, 1, 19.