cavo

căvo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [cavus], to make hollow, to hollow out, excavate (class., but not in Cic.;

for in Leg. 2, 18, 45, dicato is the correct reading, B. and K.): stillicidi casus lapidem cavat,

Lucr. 1, 313; cf. Ov. M. 4, 525:

naves ex arboribus,

Liv. 21, 26, 9:

arbore lintres,

Verg. G. 1, 262:

buxum,

id. ib. 2, 450:

dentes cavantur tabe pituitae,

Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 70:

luna cavans cornua (in waning),

id. 8, 17, 23, § 63:

parmam galeamque gladio,

i. e. to pierce through, perforate, Ov. M. 12, 130: tegmina tuta cavant capitum, hollow out, poet. for round off, bend around, fabricate, Verg. A. 7, 632.—Hence, căvātus, a, um, P. a., hollowed, excavated, hollow:

alni,

Verg. G. 1, 136:

cortices,

id. ib. 2, 387:

rupes,

id. A. 3, 229: anfracta aurium, Varr. ap. Non. p. 193, 3:

oculi,

Lucr. 6, 1194 (with cava tempora):

vallis,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 20 Müll.:

torrens alibi aliter,

Liv. 44, 35, 17.— Comp.:

sinus cavatior,

Tert. adv. Herm. 29. [p. 307]