areo

ārĕo, ēre, v. n. [akin to ardere], to be dry (not in Cic.).

I.

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.—

II.

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.

I.

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. —

II.

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).