(verb) : fŏvĕo, fōvi, fōtum, 2, Corss. assumes a root bhag-, to be hot; Gr. φώγειν, to roast; O. H. Germ. bachan; Germ. backen; Engl. bake; hence, fovere for fog-vēre; favilla for fag-villa; and to this refers: favere, faustus, etc., Ausspr. 1, 142; 2, 1004; but cf. Georg Curtius Gr. Etym. p. 188, and v. faveo
* To warm, keep warm (class.; esp. freq. in the transf. and trop. signif.; syn.: calefacio: faveo, studeo, adjuvo, etc.).
* Lit.: nisi sol sua pro parte fovet tribuitque calorem,Lucr. 1, 807; cf. id. 1, 1033: ut et pennis (pullos) foveant, ne frigore laedantur,Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129; cf.: pulli a matribus exclusi fotique,id. ib. 2, 48, 124: fetus rigentes apprimendo pectori,Plin. 8, 36, 54, § 127: laridum atque epulas foveri foculis ferventibus,Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 67: quos sancta fovet ille manu, bene vivitis ignes,i. e. keeps up,Ov. F. 3, 427; for which, in a different construction: fovet ignibus aras,id. M. 7, 427: nomen in marmore lectum Perfudit lacrimis et aperto pectore fovit,warmed the name with her naked breast,id. ib. 2, 339.
* Transf., to cherish, foster any thing.
* Physically. So of diseased parts of the body, to foment (whether with warm or cold remedies): dumque manet corpus, corpus refoventque foventque,Ov. M. 8, 536: nares exulceratas fovere oportet vapore aquae calidae,Cels. 6, 8: multa aqua prius calida, post egelida fovendum os caputque,id. 4, 2, 4: genua calido aceto,Col. 6, 12, 4: nervos cortice et foliis in vino decoctis,Plin. 24, 9, 37, § 58; 32, 9, 34, § 106: cutem lacte asinino,id. 28, 12, 50, § 183: os quoque multa frigida aqua fovendum est,Cels. 1, 5; 1, 3 init.: cutem frigida et ante et postea,Plin. 28, 12, 50, § 184: vulnus lymphă,Verg. A. 12, 420.— Poet., in gen. (a favorite word with Vergil): interdum gremio fovet inscia Dido (puerum), cherishes, holds in her lap, Verg. A. 1, 718: germanam sinu,id. ib. 4, 686: cunctantem lacertis amplexu molli,i. e. to embrace, enfold,id. ib. 8, 388: animas et olentia Medi ora fovent,id. G. 2, 135: ipse aeger, anhelans Colla fovet,i. e. leans against the tree,id. A. 10, 838: castra fovere, to remain in the camp (the figure being that of a bird brooding over its nest), id. ib. 9, 57: (coluber) fovit humum,id. G. 3, 420; and transf. to a period of time: nunc hiemem inter se luxu, quam longa, fovere, Regnorum immemores,sit the winter through, pass the winter,id. A. 4, 193.
* Mentally, to cherish, caress, love, favor, support, assist, encourage: scribis de Caesaris summo in nos amore. Hunc et tu fovebis et nos quibuscumque poterimus rebus augebimus,Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3, § 9; cf.: inimicum meum sic fovebant, etc.,id. Fam. 1, 9, 10: Vettienum, ut scribis, et Faberium foveo,id. Att. 15, 13, 3: et eo puto per Pomponium fovendum tibi esse Hortensium,id. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 8; cf. also Quint. 1, 2, 16: (duo duces) pugnantes hortabantur et prope certa fovebant spe,encouraged, animated,Liv. 38, 6, 5: tribuni plebis in cooptandis collegis patrum voluntatem foverunt,id. 3, 65, 1; cf.: res alicujus,id. 24, 36, 9; 26, 36, 6: spem potentioris,id. 40, 5, 5: rex statuerat utram foveret partem,id. 42, 29, 11; cf. id. 5, 3, 9: consilia alicujus,Tac. H. 1, 46: spectator populus hos, rursus illos clamore et plausu fovebat,id. ib. 3, 83: tu mihi gubernacula rei publicae petas fovendis hominum sensibus et deleniendis animis et adhibendis voluptatibus?by pampering,Cic. Mur. 35, 74: partes alicujus,Tac. H. 1, 8; 1, 14: adolescentiam alicujus exhortationibus,Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 1; cf.: ut propria naturae bona doctrina foverent,Quint. 2, 8, 3: ingenia et artes,Suet. Vesp. 18: quam magis in pectore meo foveo, quas meus filius turbas turbet,i. e. dwell upon, think over,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 10, 1: vota animo,Ov. M. 7, 633: spem,Mart. 9, 49, 4: nequiquam eos perditam spem fovere,Liv. 22, 53, 4; cf. Tac. H. 1, 62; Val. Max. 6 praef. § 9; cf. conversely: ut spes vos foveat, may sustain you, Just. Inst. prooem. 7: hoc regnum dea gentibus esse, jam tum tenditque fovetque,cherishes,Verg. A. 1, 18: dum illud tractabam, de quo antea scripsi ad te, quasi fovebam dolores meos (the fig. being taken from the fomenting of diseased parts of the body; v. above, II. A.),Cic. Att. 12, 18, 1: pantomimos fovebat effusius,Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 4.

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