exaestuo

ex-aestŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a., to boil up, foam up, ferment (not freq. till after the Aug. period; in Cic. and Caes. not at all).

I.

Neut.

A.

Lit.

1.

In gen.:

exaestuat mare,

Liv. 26, 42 fin.; Curt. 6, 4:

fretum,

id. 4, 2:

unda ima verticibus,

Verg. G. 3, 240:

Aetna fundo imo,

id. A. 3, 577:

bitumen e terra,

Just. 1, 2, 7:

Nilus in fossas,

Suet. Aug, 18.—

2.

In partic., to effervesce, to glow with heat:

Aegyptus torrenti calore solis exaestuat,

Just. 2, 1, 16.— Absol.:

ut exaestuarat,

had overheated himself, Suet. Tib. 72 med. —

B.

Trop.:

mens exaestuat irā,

Verg. A. 9, 798; so,

irā,

Ov. M. 6, 623; 13, 559; Stat. Th. 11, 297:

dolor exaestuat intus,

Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 63; cf.

ignis (amoris),

id. M. 13, 867; poet.:

vates magno igni,

Luc. 5, 173.—

II.

Act., to boil up with, to give forth, exhale (very rarely):

hos igitur tellus omnes exaestuat aestus,

Lucr. 6, 816; so,

aestus,

id. 2, 1137.