sūdo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [Gr. root ἰδ-; ἶδος, ἱδρός, sweat; Germ. Schweisz].
I Neutr. (class.), to sweat , perspire.
A Lit.
α Absol. : qui sudat, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 23: sine causā sudare, Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 223: sudavit et alsit, Hor. A. P. 413: juvenum sudantibus lacertis, Ov. M. 4, 707: quid cum Cumis Apollo sudavit, Cic. Div. 1, 43, 98; cf.: deorum sudasse simulacra nuntiatum est, id. ib. 2, 27, 58: bibere et sudare vita cardiaci est, Sen. Ep. 15, 3: in montes sudantes conscendimus, Petr. 116.—
β With abl., to sweat or perspire with , to be wet with , moist with , drenched in any thing: fit ut in speluncis saxa superne Sudent umore, Lucr. 6, 943; cf.: cavae tepido sudant umore lacunae, Verg. G. 1, 117: sudabant fauces sanguine, Lucr. 6, 1147: scuta duo sanguine sudasse, Liv. 22, 1: quattuor signa sanguine multo, id. 27, 4: arma sudore, Sil. 2, 455: umore Cumanus Apollo, Flor. 2, 8, 3.—Poet.: terra sudat sanguine, Enn. ap. Non. 504, 33 (Trag. v. 213 Vahl.): sanguine litus, Verg. A. 2, 582.—
b Poet., transf., of the moisture itself, to sweat , drip , distil from any thing: quid tibi odorato referam sudantia ligno Balsama, Verg. G. 2, 118: dulcis odoratis umor sudavit ab uvis, Sil. 7, 191.—
B Trop., qs. to sweat or perspire from exertion, i. e. to toil , labor hard , exert or fatigue one’s self , tire one’s self out , etc. (rare but class.; cf. Ritschl in Rhein. Mus. Neue Folge, 12, p. 458 sq.; syn.: contendo, luctor): sudabis satis, Si cum illo inceptas homine, Ter. Phorm. 628; cf.: in cassum defessi sanguine sudent, Augustum per iter luctantes ambitionis, Lucr. 5, 1129: vides sudare me jamdudum laborantem, quomodo, etc., Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 3: sudandum est his pro communibus commodis, id. Sest. 66, 139: in mancipii redhibitione sudare, Quint. 8, 3, 14 Spald. N. cr. : has meus ad metas equus, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 70: sub ingenti pharetrā, Stat. Th. 5, 443.— Poet., with inf.: et ferrea sudant Claustra remoliri, Stat. Th. 10, 526.— Impers. pass. : parabile est, quod natura desiderat: ad supervacua sudatur, Sen. Ep. 4, 8.—
II Act. (only poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
A To throw off or emit by sweating , to sweat out , exude (cf. destillo).
1 Lit.: et durae quercus sudabunt roscida mella, Verg. E. 4, 30: pinguia electra, id. ib. 8, 54: balsamum, Just. 36, 3, 4: nemora Orientis, ubi tura et balsama sudantur, Tac. G. 45: sudata ligno Tura, Ov. M. 10, 308: oleum baca Venafri, Mart. 13, 101, 1: mella, Nemes. Ecl. 1, 76: sanguinem, Val. Max. 1, 6, 5; Aug. in Psa. 93, 19: mella, Lact. 7, 24, 7.—
2 Trop. (acc. to I. B.), to sweat out a thing, i. e. to make , perform , or carry on laboriously : multo labore Cyclopum Sudatum thoraca capit, Sil. 4, 436: fibulam, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 16: vomere messes, id. Laud. Stil. 2, 94: zonam, id. Epigr. 23, 12: deunces, Pers. 5, 149: bella, Prud. Cath. 2, 76: laborem, Sil. 3, 92; Stat. Th. 5, 189. —
B Pregn.
1 To saturate with sweat , to sweat through (very rare): vestes sudatae, Quint. 11, 3, 23.—
2 Of time, to sweat through , pass or spend in sweating : actae sub pellibus hiemes aestatesque inter bella sudatae, Pac. Pan. Theod. 8.