stillo

stillo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a [stilla].

I.

Neutr., to drop, drip, trickle, distil (mostly poet.; syn. roro).

A.

Lit.:

vas, unde stillet lente aqua,

Varr. R. R. 1, 41, 2:

gutta (dulcedinis) in cor,

Lucr. 4, 1060:

umorem, quasi igni cera super calido tabescens multa liquescat,

id. 6, 515:

cruor ferro,

Prop. 2, 8, 26 (2, 8 b, 26 (10)):

unguenta capillo,

Tib. 1, 7, 51:

de viridi ilice mella,

Ov. M. 1, 112:

ros,

id. ib. 11, 57:

hammoniaci lacrima stillat m harenis,

Plin. 12, 23, 49, § 107.—

B.

Transf., of things which drop or drop with a liquid:

saxa guttis manantibu' stillent,

Lucr. 6, 943 ' paenula multo nimbo, Juv. 5, 79:

coma Syrio rore,

Tib. 3, 4, 28:

sanguine sidera,

Ov. Am. 1, 8, 11; cf.

' arbor sanguineis roribus,

Luc. 7, 837; Sen. Thyest 1061—Without abl.: umida saxa, super viridi stillantia musco, Lucr. 5, 951: ille, qui stillantem prae se pugionem tulit, * Cic. Phil. 2, 12, 30:

uva,

Mart. 10, 56, 5; Vulg. Job, 16, 21.—

C.

Trop.:

stillantes voces,

words that ooze out drop by drop, Calp. Ecl. 6, 23; cf.:

orationem stillare,

Sen. Ep. 40, 3:

plumis stillare diem,

to be full, to abound in, Stat. Th. 3, 537.—

II.

Act., to cause to drop, let fall in drops, to drop, distil: stillabit amicis Ex oculis rorem, * Hor. A. P. 429:

coctam caepam cum adipe anserino,

Plin. 20, 5, 20, § 40:

stillata De ramis electra,

dropped, distilled, Ov. M. 2, 364:

stillata cortice myrrha,

id. ib. 10, 501;

acre malum stillans ocellus,

Juv. 6, 109.—

B.

Trop., to drop, instil:

cum facilem stillavit in aurem Exiguum de veneno,

Juv. 3, 123.