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fōmentum , i, n. contr. from fovimentum from foveo,
I.a warm application, warm lotion or poultice, fomentation.
I. Lit.: “calida,Cels. 2, 17 med.: “aquae calidae,id. 8, 10, 7: “calida, sicca,id. 3, 11 init.; 4, 14; cf. Suet. Aug. 81: “assideat, fomenta paret,Hor. S. 1, 1, 82: “adhibere,Col. 6, 30, 3: “(juvant) fomenta podagrum,Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 52: fomenta vulneribus nulla, i. e. bandages (before, ligamenta), Tac. A. 15, 55.—
B. Transf., for fomes, touch-wood, kindling-wood: se ex arboribus fomenta excidisse, Clod. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 176: “fomenta ignium varia,Amm. 20, 7, 12.—
II. Trop.
B. Poet. transf., nourishment: “quodsi frigida curarum fomenta relinquere posses,Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 26.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (12):
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 81
    • Horace, Satires, 1.1.82
    • Tacitus, Annales, 1.46
    • Tacitus, Annales, 15.55
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 4.14
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 8.10
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 2.29
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 2.24
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 4, 3.10
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 2.17
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 3.11
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 6.30.3
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