umbro

umbro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [umbra], to shade, shadow, overshadow, overspread, cover; to make or cast a shade (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.).

I.

Lit.:

(quercus) Umbrabat coma summi fastigia montis,

Sil. 5, 488:

colles,

Stat. S. 4, 2, 36:

montes oleā,

i. e. to plant, Sil. 14, 24:

carchedonios purpureos,

Plin. 37, 7, 25, § 95 (dub.;

al. obumbrante): matrem (i. e. tellurem) rosarum floribus,

Lucr. 2, 629.—

II.

Transf.:

tempora quercu,

Verg. A. 6, 772:

frontem umbrante capillo,

Sil. 1, 403:

dux umbratus rosis,

Claud. B. Gild. 444; id. VI. Cons. Hon. 164.—In a Greek construction:

umbratus tempora ramis,

Stat. Th. 6, 554:

umbratus genas,

i. e. covered with a beard, id. S. 3, 4, 79:

umbrata tempora galero,

Val. Fl. 4, 137: umbrantur somno pupulae, are shaded, i. e. covered, Varr. ap. Non. 172, 4:

telis diem,

to darken, Claud. in Ruf. 2, 122.— Absol.:

omnes paene virgae, ne umbrent, abraduntur,

cast a shade, Col. 5, 7, 2.