sătŭro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [satur], to fill, glut, cloy, satiate (rare but class.; syn. satio).
I Lit.: animalia duce naturā mammas appetunt earumque ubertate saturantur, Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 128: armenta, Verg. A. 8, 213: nec cytiso saturantur apes, id. E. 10, 30: caede leones, Ov. M. 10, 541; id. Am. 2, 16, 25: testudines, Plin. 9, 10, 12, § 36: saturabat glebula talis Patrem ipsum, Juv. 14, 166: famem, i. e. to satisfy , appease , Claud. Phoen. 13; Vulg. Deut. 14, 29 et saep. —
B Transf., in gen., to fill , furnish abundantly , saturate with a thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): nec saturare fimo pingui pudeat sola, Verg. G. 1, 80: novalia stercore, Col. 2, 9, 15: betam multo stercore, Pall. Febr. 24, 10: jejunia terrae fimo, Col. poët. 10, 82: culta aquis, i. e. to water , irrigate , Mart. 8, 28, 4; cf.: pallam Tyrio murice, to saturate , to dye or color richly , Ov. M. 11, 166; Mart. 8, 48, 5; Claud. in Ruf. 1, 208: capillum multo amomo, to anoint , Stat. S. 3, 4, 82: tabulas pice, to smear , cover , Vitr. 10, 11 fin. ; cf.: aditus murium querno cinere, Pall. 1, 35, 11: horrea, to fill , stuff , Lucil. Aetn. 266.—
II Trop.
A In gen., to fill , satisfy , content , sate : mens erecta saturataque bonarum cogitationum epulis, Cic. Div. 1, 29, 61: homines saturati honoribus, id. Planc. 8, 20: ex eorum agris atque urbibus expleti atque saturati cum hoc cumulo quaestus decederent, id. Verr. 2, 3, 42, § 100: saturavi perfidiam et scelus proditorum, id. Dom. 17, 44; Cat. 64, 220: saturavit se sanguine civium, Cic. Phil. 2, 24, 59: crudelitatem, to satisfy , sate , id. Vatin. 3, 6.—In a Gr. construction: Juno necdum antiquum saturata dolorem, not yet satisfied or assuaged , Verg. A. 5, 608.—*
B In partic., subject. (for the usu. satio), to cause to loathe , to make weary of or disgusted with a thing: hae res vitae me saturant, * Plaut. Stich. 1, 1, 18.
VI —Hence, sătŭ-rātus , a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.); of color, full , rich : color saturatior, Plin. 21, 8, 22, § 46.