A vaine. Sanguis per venas in omne corpus diffunditur, & spiritus per arterias, Cic. Ora venarum solita fundere sanguinem. Cels. Capita venarum. Cels. Vena, pro arteria. Cels. The pulses. Saliunt tentatæ pollice venæ. Ouid. The pulses being selte doth beate. Pulsus venarum. Plinius. The pulses or beating of the arteries. Percussus venarum, Idem Pli. Caua vena, Vide CAVVS. Trepidæ venæ. Ouid. Ouaking and moouing vaines. Vacuæ venæ. Hor. Vitales. Lucret. Abrumpere venas, Vide ABRVMPO. Abscindere venas. Tac. Astringet hiantes venas valor. Vir. Calentes venæ fibrarum. Luc. Concidere venæ dicuntur. Cels. To sinke or to loose theyr ctrength. Concitat venas, & resoluit, balneum, & exercitatio, & metus, & ira. Cels. Sanguis detractus venis. Lucret. Bloud letten. Exoluere venas. Tac To open the veynes. Ferire venam. Cels. To let bloud. Ferire venam inter ima pedis. Vir. Imbuta vena veneno, Ci. Incidere venam quod medici phlebotomarc dicunt Ci. To let bloud: to open a veyne. Libido terra inflauit venas. Hor. Inflatus venas Iaccho. Vir. Intercidere venas. Plin. Hiatus tenues venarum laxat cruor. Stat. Marcent venæ. Lucan. Micant venæ. Vide MICO. Mouentur venæ inæqualibus interuallis. Cel. The arteries beate, &c. Nigrescunt sanguine venæ. Ouid. Venæ naturaliter ordinatæ. Celsus. Veynes no bigger nor lesse than naturally they should be. Pallent amisso sanguine venæ. Ouid. Pertundere venam. Iuuen. To let bloud: to strike a vaine. Reficere venas cadentes vino. Sen. To refresh, &c. Reunlsæ venæ. Sen. Saliens vena sanguine. Vir. Submittunt se modò venæ, modò attollunt. Celsus. Deines sametime fal and ware lesse, sometime swel. Tangere venas alicui. Pers. Plenis tumuerunt guttura venis. Ouid. Periculum inclusum in venis & visceribus alicuius. Ci. Venæ arborum. Plin. Venæ marmoris. Stat. Silicum venæ Ouid. Silicis venis abstrusus ignis. Vir. Sarcophagus lapis sissili vena scinditur. Pli. Venæ, per translationem in terra dicuntur subterranei meatus. Hirt. Veynes in the earth. Vena fœcundæ aquæ. Ouid. Venæ auri & argenti. Cic.

I. Lit.

1. In gen.: venae et arteriae a corde tractae et profectae in corpus omne ducuntur, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 139: venam incidere, id. Pis. 34, 83; Cels. 2, 10: bracchiorum venas interscindere, Tac. A. 15, 35: abrumpere, id. ib. 15, 59: abscindere, id. ib. 15, 69: exsolvere, id. ib. 16, 17; 16, 19: pertundere, Juv. 6, 46: secare, Suet. Vit. Luc.: ferire, Verg. G. 3, 460: solvere, Col. 6, 14, 3.—

2. In partic., an artery: si cui venae sic moventur, is habet febrem, Cic. Fat. 8, 15; Cels. 3, 6: tentare, to feel the pulse, Suet. Tib. 72 fin.; for which, tangere, Pers. 3, 107; Sid. Ep. 22: si protinus venae conciderunt, i. e. the pulse has sunk or fallen, Cels. 3, 5; cf.: venis fugientibus, Ov. P. 3, 1, 69.—

B. Transf., of things that resemble veins.

1. A water-course, Hirt. B. G. 8, 43; Auct. B. Alex. 8, 1: fecundae vena aquae, Ov. Tr. 3, 7, 16; Mart. 10, 30, 10.—

2. A vein of metals, Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 151; Juv. 9, 31.—

3. The urinary passage, Cels. 4, 1.—

4. A vein or streak of wood, Plin. 16, 38, 73, 184; 13, 15, 30, 97. —Of stone, Plin. 37, 6, 24, 91; Stat. S. 1, 3, 36.—

5. A row of trees in a garden, Plin. 17, 11, 15, 76.—

6. = membrum virile, Mart. 4, 66, 12; 6, 49, 2; 11, 16, 5; Pers. 6, 72.—

II. Trop.

A. The strength: vino fulcire venas cadentes, Sen. Ep. 95, 22; id. Ben. 3, 9, 22; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 153.—

B. The interior, the innate or natural quality or nature of a thing: periculum residebit et erit inclusum penitus in venis et visceribus rei publicae, Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31: (orator) teneat oportet venas cujusque generis, aetatis, ordinis, the innermost feelings, the spring, pulse, id. de Or. 1, 52, 223: si ulla vena paternae disciplinae in nobis viveret, Sev. ap. Spart. Pesc. 3.—

C. For a person's natural bent, genius, disposition, vein (the fig. taken from veins of metal): ego nec studium sine divite venā, Nec rude quid possit video ingenium, Hor. A. P. 409: tenuis et angusta ingenii, Quint. 6, 2, 3: benigna ingenii, Hor. C. 2, 18, 10: publica (vatis), Juv. 7, 53.