sitis

sĭtis, is (abl. site, Ven. Carm. 2, 13, 3; acc. sitem, Prud. steph. 2, 250), f. [etym. dub.; perh. akin with siccus], thirst (class.; used only in sing.).

I.

Lit.:

demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis fauces tenet,

Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 33; cf.:

tibi cum fauces urit sitis,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 114:

siti sicca sum,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 26:

anum interfecero siti fameque atque algu,

id. Most. 1, 3, 36; id. Rud. 2, 2, 7; cf.:

cum cibo et potione fames sitisque depulsa est,

Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37:

explere diuturnam sitim,

id. Sen. 8, 26; cf.:

ut sitim nostro possis explere cruore,

Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 57:

ubi quarta sitim caeli collegerit hora,

excited, Verg. G. 3, 327:

fessa labore sitim collegerat,

had become thirsty, Ov. M. 5, 446:

sitim tolerare,

Tac. G. 4:

exstinguere sitim,

Ov. M. 7, 569:

restinguere,

Verg. E. 5, 47:

pellere,

Hor. C. 2, 2, 14; Stat. Th. 5, 1:

finire,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 146:

sedare,

Lucr. 2, 663; 4, 850; 5, 945; Ov. M. 3, 415:

famem ac sitim sedare,

Plin. 11, 53, 119, § 284; Tac. H. 2, 49:

levare,

Ov. M. 12, 156; 15, 322:

relevare,

id. ib. 6, 354 al.:

compescere,

id. ib. 4, 102:

deponere,

id. ib. 4, 98:

defendere fonte,

Sil. 7, 170:

avertere,

id. 8, 572:

reprimere,

Curt. 7, 5, 7:

pomi sitim faciunt,

provoke, Plin. 23, 7, 70, § 135:

sucus, qui sitim stimulet,

id. 23, 7, 67, § 132:

sitim adferunt (fici),

id. 23, 7, 63, § 121:

accendit,

id. 11, 2, 1, § 3; Curt. 7, 5, 2:

in lassitudine et in siti,

Plin. 22, 24, 51, § 111:

excessit sitim potio,

was more than enough for, Cels. 1, 2:

ardere siti,

Claud. in Ruf. 1, 104:

sitis arida guttur Urit,

Ov. M. 11, 129.—

B.

Transf., of things (places, plants, etc.), dryness, drought, aridity ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

et Canis arenti torreat arva siti,

Tib. 1, 4, 42; Verg. G. 2, 353:

deserta siti regio,

id. A. 4, 42:

haurit sitis ignea campos,

Stat. Th. 4, 699:

sitis aestatis restinguitur fontibus, i. e. of plants,

Col. 11, 3, 9; Plin. 19, 2, 8, § 29 al.—

II.

Trop., strong or ardent desire, greediness, thirst:

cupiditatis sitis,

Cic. Par. 1, 1, 6.—With gen. obj.:

libertatis,

Cic. Rep. 1, 43, 66:

cruoris,

Ov. M. 13, 768:

argenti sitis importuna famesque,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 23:

sitis major famae quam virtutis,

Juv. 10, 140:

audiendi,

Quint. 6, 3, 19.