(adjective) : frĕtum, i, n., and frĕtus, ūs, m.root φρυ, to be in uneasy motion, boil, flash; cf. Sanscr. bhur; Lat. ferveo
* A strait, sound, channel.
* Lit.
* In gen.
* Poet. transf.
* In partic., the Strait, for the Strait of Sicily: cum se ille septimo die venisse a freto dixisset,Cic. Att. 2, 1, 5; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 59, § 154; 2, 2, 7 fin.; Caes. B. C. 1, 29, 1; Suet. Tib. 2; Flor. 2, 2; Hor. Epod. 9, 7 al.
* Hence, Frĕtensis, e, : Fretense mare,i. e. the Strait of Sicily,Cic. Att. 10, 7, 1.
* In gen., the sea (syn.: mare, oceanus, pelagus, pontus).—Plur.: fervet fretis spirantibus aequor,Verg. G. 1, 327: in freta dum fluvii current,id. A. 1, 607; cf. Ov. M. 1, 36: pastor cum traheret per freta navibus Idaeis Helenen,Hor. C. 1, 15, 1: fretis acrior Hadriae,id. ib. 1, 33, 15.—Sing.: Euxinum,Ov. P. 2, 2, 2: Libycum,id. F. 3, 568.—*
* Of the sky: (pulvis) omnem pervolat caeli fretum, Enn. ap. Non. 205, 29 (Trag. v. 31 Vahl.).—*
* Of the spring, as the period of transition from cold to heat: fretus ipse anni permiscet frigus et aestum,Lucr. 6, 364; so, freta anni,ib. 374 ex conject. Lachm. v. ej. annot. p. 369.
* A raging, swelling, heat, violence: aetatis freta,Lucr. 4, 1030; cf.: fretum adolescentiae, id est secunda imperii aetas,Flor. 1, 26: invidiae atque acerbitatis fretum effervescit,Gell. 10, 3, 7.

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