tŭmĕo, ēre, v. n. [Sanscr. tu-, taumi, tavīmi, to be strong; Gr. τύλος, τύλη, lump; Lat. tuber, tumulus, tumor, etc.; cf. O. H. Germ. dūmo; Germ. Daumen; Engl. thumb], to swell, be swollen or tumid, to be puffed out or inflated (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; cf. turgeo).
I Lit.: So. Quid hoc in collo tibi tumet? Sa. Vomica'st: pressare parce, Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 11: corpus tumet omne veneno, Ov. M. 3, 33: guttura plenis venis, id. ib. 3, 73: lumina fletu, Tib. 1, 8, 68 (al. timet): pedes, Verg. A. 2, 273: nares ac pectus, Quint. 11, 3, 29: fauces, id. 11, 3, 30: inritata loca semine, Lucr. 4, 1045: Achelous imbre, Ov. M. 8, 549: vela sinu, Mart. Spect. 26, 6: a vento unda, Ov. F. 2, 776: gemma in tenero palmite, id. ib. 3, 238: licet tumeant freta ventis, Tib. 3, 7, 194: sacci multo hordeo, Phaedr. 2, 7, 3: clivus molliter orbe, Claud. de Apono, 12: anni (virginis), i. e. to be ripe , Stat. Ach. 1, 292; v. tumesco and tumidus: cujus aceto tumes? Juv. 3, 293.— Absol. : rutam tritam imponunt contusis tumentibusque, swellings , tumors , Plin. 29, 2, 9, § 30; 15, 14, 15, § 52: in inmensis quā tumet Ida jugis, Ov. H. 5, 138.—
II Trop.
A To swell , be swollen with passionate excitement, to be excited , violent , ready to burst forth : sapientis animus semper vacat vitio, numquam turgescit, numquam tumet, Cic. Tusc. 3, 9, 19: multis gentibus irā tumentibus, Liv. 31, 8, 11.—With dat. (poet.): accensum quis bile feret famulisque tumentem Leniet? Stat. S. 2, 1, 58: pectus anhelum, Et rabie fera corda tument, Verg. A. 6, 49; cf.: bile jecur, Hor. C. 1, 13, 4: nescio quid animus tumet, Sen. Thyest. 267 sq.: animus irā, id. Phoen. 352: leo animis, id. Troad. 1096: tument negotia, are in a ferment , unsettled , approaching a crisis , Cic. Att. 14, 4, 1: quoniam Galliae tumeant, Tac. H. 2, 32: animi plebis, Plin. Pan. 28, 3: bella, Ov. H. 7, 121.—With inf.: mens tumet jungere, etc., Val. Fl. 1, 199.—
B To be puffed up with pride or vanity, to swell (poët. and in post-Aug. prose): tumens inani graculus superbiā, Phaedr. 1, 3, 4: Mithridateis nominibus, Ov. M. 15, 755: alto stemmate, Juv. 8, 40: partā jam laude, Val. Fl. 3, 677: merito, Mart. 4, 46, 2: vana, Verg. A. 11, 854: laudis amore tumes, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 36: tibicinum gloriā tumere, Plin. 37, 1, 3, § 8: Alexander tumens successu rerum, Just. 39, 2, 1: stirpe Alexandri, Aur. Vict. Caes. 29, 2.—
C Of speech, to be inflated , turgid , pompous , bombastic (post-Aug. and rare): nec Ciceroni obtrectatores defuisse, quibus inflatus et tumens .. videretur, Tac. Or. 18; Quint. 8, 3, 18: Musa nec insano syrmate nostra tumet, Mart. 4, 49, 8.