I.supplied with water.
I. Lit.
A. Pass., watered, well-watered, irriguous; full of water, wet, swampy: “herba,” Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 9: “hortus,” Hor. S. 2, 4, 16: “pratum,” Prop. 1, 20, 37: “campus,” Luc. 4, 296: “loca,” Cels. 1, 3: “regio irrigua fontibus,” Plin. 5, 14, 15, § 70 (al. rigua).—
B. Act., poet., watering, irriguous: “fons,” Verg. G. 4, 32: “aqua,” Ov. Am. 2, 16, 2: “aquae,” Tib. 2, 1, 44. —
II. Transf., poet.
C. Carmen, music produced by the water-organ, Auct. Aetnae, 295.—As subst.: irrĭ-gŭa , ōrum, n. plur.
1. Overflowings: “aquarum,” Plin. 5, 4, 3, § 23.—
2. Swamps, marshes, overflowed land: “(Euphrates) distrahitur ad inrigua,” Plin. 6, 26, 30, § 124.