aestīvus, a, um, adj. [aestas],
I of or pertaining to summer , summer-like , summer (freq. and class.): Quo pacto aestivis e partibus Aegocerotis Brumalīs adeat flexus, turns from the hot region of heaven to the wintry sign of Capricorn , Lucr. 5, 615; so id. 5, 639: aestivos menses rei militari dare, hibernos juris dictioni, Cic. Att. 5, 14: tempora, dies, summer time , summer days , id. Verr. 2, 5, 31: sol, Verg. G. 4, 28: aura, Hor. C. 1, 22, 18: umbra, Ov. M. 13, 793: rus, Mart. 8, 61: per aestivos saltus deviasque calles exercitum ducimus, through woods , where flocks were driven for summer pasture , Liv. 22, 14: aves, summer birds , id. 5, 6: animalia, the insects of summer , Plin. 9, 47, 71, § 154: expeditiones, which were undertaken in summer , Vell. 2, 114: castra, a summer camp (constructed differently from a winter camp), Suet. Claud. 1.—Hence,
II Subst.: aestīva , ōrum, n.
A For a summer camp , τὰ θερινά: dum in aestivis essemus, Cic. Att. 5, 17; id. Fam. 2, 13: aestiva praetoris, of a pleasure-camp , pleasurehouse , Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 37.—
B The time appropriate for a campaign (cf. aestas; often continuing until December; v. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 2, 7); hence, a campaign , Cic. Pis. 40: aestivis confectis, after the campaign was ended (which did not take place until the Saturnalia, XIV. Kal. Januar.), id. Fam. 3, 9 fin. : perducere aestiva in mensem Decembrem, Vell. 2, 105.—
C Summer pastures for cattle : per montium aestiva, Plin. 24, 6, 19, § 28.—Meton. for the cattle themselves : Nec singula morbi Corpora corripiunt, sed tota aestiva, Verg. G. 3, 472.— Hence, * adv.: aestīvē , in a summer-like manner , as in summer : admodum aestive viaticati sumus, we are furnished in a very summer-like manner with money for our journey , i. e. we have but little (the figure taken from the light dress of summer; or, acc. to others, from the scanty provisions which soldiers took with them in summer), Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 30.