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, Cic. 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.
