(v. n.P. a.) : ārĕo, ēre, v. n.akin to ardere
* To be dry (not in Cic.).
* Lit.: ubi (amurca) arebit,Cato, R. R. 76; 69: uti, quom exivissem ex aquā, arerem tamen,Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 50; 2, 7, 18: (tellus) sucis aret ademtis,Ov. M. 2, 211; so id. ib. 15, 268.
* Trop. of things, to be dried up or withered: arentibus siti faucibus,Liv. 44, 38; so Sen. Ben. 3, 8: fauces arent,Ov. M. 6, 355: aret ager,Verg. E. 7, 57: pars, super quam non plui, aruit,Vulg. Amos, 4, 7: omnia ligna agri aruerunt, ib. Joel, 1, 12; ib. Marc. 11, 21; ib. Apoc. 14, 15.—Rarely of persons, to languish from thirst: in mediā Tantalus aret aquā,Ov. A. A. 2, 606; so, Sic aret mediis taciti vulgator in undis,id. Am. 3, 7, 51. —Hence, ārens, entis, P. a.
* Lit., dry, arid, parched: saxa,Ov. M. 13, 691: arens alveus (fluminis),Vulg. Jos. 3, 17: arva,Verg. G. 1, 110: rosae,id. ib. 4, 268; id. A. 3, 350: harenae,Hor. C. 3, 4, 31: cetera (loca) abrupta aut arentia, * Tac. A. 15, 42.
* Trop., languishing or fainting from thirst, thirsty: trepidisque arentia venis Ora patent,Ov. M. 7, 556; 14, 277: faux,Hor. Epod. 14, 4.—Poet. as an epithet of thirst itself: sitis,Ov. H. 4, 174; Sen. Thyest. 5 (cf.: sitis arida,Lucr. 6, 1175; Ov. M. 11, 129).

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