aestus

aestus ūs, m

AID-, an agitation, glow, heat, rage of fire : furit aestus ad auras, V.: quia oleam momorderit aestus, H.: labore et aestu languidi, S.: ad aestūs vitandos aedificare, Cs.: Aestibus mediis, in midday heat , V.: Caniculae, H.: sidereus, O.: ulceris aestus, fever : aegri aestu febrique iactantur.—Poet., summer : medio in aestu, O.— Of the sea, a heaving, swell, surge : fervet aestu pelagus; cf. exsultant aestu latices, boil up , V.: aequoris, breakers , V.: ingreditur ferventes aestibus undas, O.— The waves, billows, sea : delphines aestum secabant, V.: maritimos aestūs maximos in oceano efficere, tides : minuente aestu, at low tide , Cs.—Fig.: quantos aestūs habet ratio comitiorum, tides of passion : civilis belli aestus, H.: quasi aestus ingeni.— Irresolution, uncertainty, hesitation : qui tibi aestus, qui error: amor irarum fluctuat aestu, V.: aestūs graves, H.