assilio

as-sĭlĭo ( ads-, Kayser; ads- and as-, Merk.), sĭlui (cf. Prisc. p. 906 P., and Jahn ad Ov. M. 11, 526), sultum, 4, v. n. [2. salio], to leap or spring to or upon something.

I.

Lit. (most freq. poet. ):

Cum saepe adsiluit defensae moenibus urbis,

Ov. M. 11, 526:

adsiliens admissarius,

Col. 6, 37, 9:

torpedo adsultantes pisciculos attrahens, donec tam prope accedant, ut adsiliat,

Plin. 9, 42, 67, § 143; Val. Fl. 1, 257:

in ferrum,

Sil. 10, 2 et saep.— Poet. freq. of water, to leap or dash against or upon a thing (cf. 2. salio):

tactumque vereri Assilientis aquae,

Ov. M. 6, 107, and id. F. 5, 612:

Adsiliunt fluctus,

id. ib. 3, 591:

(insulae) quas spumifer adsilit Aegon,

Stat. Th. 5, 56 al. —

II.

Trop.: nam neque adsiliendum statim est ad genus illud orationis, to jump to, * Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 213; Sen. Contr. 5 praef.