meo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

mĕo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. [kindr. with Sanscr. mī, to go],

I to go, to pass (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): quo simul meāris, Hor. C. 1, 4, 17: in orientem meavisse, Tac. A. 3, 34: meantes exercitus terrere, Quint. 8, 4, 3.—

II Trop., of inanim. and abstr. things: ita ut vix singula meent plaustra, Plin. 6, 14, 17, § 43: triremes, Tac. A. 4, 5: sidera, Ov. M. 15, 71: sol, Quint. 11, 2, 22: aura, id. 11, 3, 16: vapor per inane vacuum, Lucr. 2, 151: spiritus, Curt. 3, 5, 6: anima diversa in membra, Luc. 3, 640.

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