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līquor , līqui (
I.inf. liquier, Att. Trag. Brut. 28), v. dep. n. [liqueo], to be fluid or liquid, to flow, melt, dissolve (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I. Lit.: “tum toto corpore sudor Liquitur,” Verg. A. 9, 813: “huic (arbori) atro liquuntur sanguine guttae,” id. ib. 3, 28: “liquentia flumina,” id. ib. 9, 679: “mella,” id. ib. 1, 432: “fluvius,” id. G. 4, 442: “ut fraces et amurca liquentur,” Plin. 15, 6, 6, § 22.—
II. Trop., to melt or waste away: “ilico res foras labitur, liquitur,” Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 17: “in partem pejorem liquitur aetas,” Lucr. 2, 1132: per poli liquentis axem, Prud. στεφ. 1, 88.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 9.813
    • Vergil, Georgics, 4.442
    • Plautus, Trinummus, 2.1
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.1132
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 15.22
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