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mĕātus , ūs, m. id.,
I.a going, passing, motion, course (poet. and post-Aug.).
I. Lit.: “solis lunaeque meatus,Lucr. 1, 128: “caeli,Verg. A. 6, 850: “aquilae,flight, Tac. H. 1, 62: “spiritus,” i. e. the breathing, respiration, Quint. 7, 10, 10: “animae,Plin. Ep. 6 16, 13.
II. Transf., concr., a way, path, passage, Val. Fl. 3, 403: “meatum vomiticnibus praeparare,Plin. 19, 5, 26, § 85: “spirandi,id. 28, 13, 55, § 197: cur signa meatus Deseruere suos, left their paths, i. e. became darkened, eclipsed, Luc. 1, 664: “Danubius in Ponticum sex meatibus erumpit,discharges itself through six channels, Tac. G. 1; cf.: “bifido meatu divisus Rhenus,divided into two channels, Claud. B. G. 336. —
B. The avenues of sensation in the body: “homo septem meatus habet in capite, duos oculos, etc.,Mart. Cap. 7, § 739.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.850
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 1.62
    • Tacitus, Germania, 1
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.128
    • Lucan, Civil War, 1.664
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 6.16.13
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 3.403
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 7, 10.10
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