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(verb) : sicco, āvi, ātum, 1, and n. id..
* Act., to make dry, to dry, to dry up.
* In gen. (freq. and class.): venti et sol siccare prius confidunt omnia posse,Lucr. 5, 390; cf.: sol siccaverat herbas,Ov. M. 4, 82: siccabat rorantes capillos,id. F. 4, 141: sole capillos,id. M. 11, 770; Plin. 27, 9, 55, § 79: aliquid in sole,Col. 12, 46, 5; Plin. 12, 13, 27, § 47: aliquid ad lunam,id. 21, 11, 36, § 62: lina madentia,Ov. M. 13, 931: retia litore,id. ib. 11, 362: vellera,Verg. E. 3, 95: veste cruores,id. A. 4, 687: cruorem,Gell. 5, 14, 22: lacrimas,Prop. 1, 19, 23; Ov. M. 8, 469; 9, 395; id. F. 3, 509: jocis lacrimas siccare,Quint. 11, 1, 6 al.: genas,Ov. M. 10, 362: frontem sudario,Quint. 11, 3, 148.
* Neutr., to become dry, get dry (very rare): quotiens flumina et stagna siccaverint,Lact. 7, 3, 8: tundis cuminum et postea infundis in aceto; cum siccaverit, etc.,Apic. 3, 18, § 105; 4, 2, § 132 al.—Impers.: ubi pluerit et siccaverit,Cato, R. R. 112, 2.
* To dry up, drain land, marshes, springs, etc.: paludes,Cic. Phil. 5, 3, 7; so, paludem,Quint. 3, 8, 16; Suet. Caes. 44: amnes,Ov. M. 2, 257: fontes,id. ib. 13, 690; cf.: palustria aestate siccantur,Plin. 12, 22, 48, § 104: agri siccati,drained lands, lands uncovered by draining,Suet. Claud. 20: dea Sidereo siccata sitim collegit ab aestu,parched,Ov. M. 6, 341.
* To exhaust, drain dry, etc. (poet.): ovis ubera,Verg. E. 2, 42; so, distenta ubera,Hor. Epod. 2, 46; for which, transf.: distentas siccant pecudes,Luc. 4, 314; so, siccata ovis,i. e. milked,Ov. Am. 3, 5, 14: calices,i. e. to drain, empty,Hor. S. 2, 6, 68; so. cadis siccatis,id. C. 1, 35, 27; cf.: cum siccare sacram largo Permessida posset Ore, to drink deeply from the fountain of the Muses, i. e. to be a great poet, Mart. 8, 70, 3.—In Gr. construction: Arethusa virides manu siccata capillos,Ov. M. 5, 575.
* To dry up, heal up, remore an unwholesome humor; or, to heal up, free some part of the body from an unwholesome humor (poet. and in the elder Pliny): ad pituitam oris siccandam. Plin. 23, 1, 13, § 17: suppurata, id. 36, 17, 28, § 133: strumas,id. 24, 4, 6, § 11: corpora,id. 31, 6, 33, § 62: os,id. 12, 12, 26, § 43: arterias umidas,id. 20, 14, 53, § 148; cf.: corpus pilā, i. e. to strengthen, invigorate, Lucil. ap. Non. 394, 29; v. siccitas, I. B. 3.: vulnera,Ov. M. 10, 187; cf.: ad fluminis undam Vulnera siccabat lymphis,Verg. A. 10, 834; for which, in a Gr. construction: juvenes siccati vulnera lymphis,Stat. Th. 1, 527.
* Act., to make dry, to dry, to dry up.
* In gen. (freq. and class.): venti et sol siccare prius confidunt omnia posse,Lucr. 5, 390; cf.: sol siccaverat herbas,Ov. M. 4, 82: siccabat rorantes capillos,id. F. 4, 141: sole capillos,id. M. 11, 770; Plin. 27, 9, 55, § 79: aliquid in sole,Col. 12, 46, 5; Plin. 12, 13, 27, § 47: aliquid ad lunam,id. 21, 11, 36, § 62: lina madentia,Ov. M. 13, 931: retia litore,id. ib. 11, 362: vellera,Verg. E. 3, 95: veste cruores,id. A. 4, 687: cruorem,Gell. 5, 14, 22: lacrimas,Prop. 1, 19, 23; Ov. M. 8, 469; 9, 395; id. F. 3, 509: jocis lacrimas siccare,Quint. 11, 1, 6 al.: genas,Ov. M. 10, 362: frontem sudario,Quint. 11, 3, 148.
* Neutr., to become dry, get dry (very rare): quotiens flumina et stagna siccaverint,Lact. 7, 3, 8: tundis cuminum et postea infundis in aceto; cum siccaverit, etc.,Apic. 3, 18, § 105; 4, 2, § 132 al.—Impers.: ubi pluerit et siccaverit,Cato, R. R. 112, 2.
* To dry up, drain land, marshes, springs, etc.: paludes,Cic. Phil. 5, 3, 7; so, paludem,Quint. 3, 8, 16; Suet. Caes. 44: amnes,Ov. M. 2, 257: fontes,id. ib. 13, 690; cf.: palustria aestate siccantur,Plin. 12, 22, 48, § 104: agri siccati,drained lands, lands uncovered by draining,Suet. Claud. 20: dea Sidereo siccata sitim collegit ab aestu,parched,Ov. M. 6, 341.
* To exhaust, drain dry, etc. (poet.): ovis ubera,Verg. E. 2, 42; so, distenta ubera,Hor. Epod. 2, 46; for which, transf.: distentas siccant pecudes,Luc. 4, 314; so, siccata ovis,i. e. milked,Ov. Am. 3, 5, 14: calices,i. e. to drain, empty,Hor. S. 2, 6, 68; so. cadis siccatis,id. C. 1, 35, 27; cf.: cum siccare sacram largo Permessida posset Ore, to drink deeply from the fountain of the Muses, i. e. to be a great poet, Mart. 8, 70, 3.—In Gr. construction: Arethusa virides manu siccata capillos,Ov. M. 5, 575.
* To dry up, heal up, remore an unwholesome humor; or, to heal up, free some part of the body from an unwholesome humor (poet. and in the elder Pliny): ad pituitam oris siccandam. Plin. 23, 1, 13, § 17: suppurata, id. 36, 17, 28, § 133: strumas,id. 24, 4, 6, § 11: corpora,id. 31, 6, 33, § 62: os,id. 12, 12, 26, § 43: arterias umidas,id. 20, 14, 53, § 148; cf.: corpus pilā, i. e. to strengthen, invigorate, Lucil. ap. Non. 394, 29; v. siccitas, I. B. 3.: vulnera,Ov. M. 10, 187; cf.: ad fluminis undam Vulnera siccabat lymphis,Verg. A. 10, 834; for which, in a Gr. construction: juvenes siccati vulnera lymphis,Stat. Th. 1, 527.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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