I.dry.
I. Lit.
A. In gen. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. “aridus): arena,” Verg. G. 1, 389: “fauces fluminum,” id. ib. 4, 427: “siccāque in rupe resedit,” id. A. 5, 180: “litus,” id. ib. 6, 162: “siccum et sine umore ullo solum,” Quint. 2, 4, 8: “glebae,” Hor. Epod. 16, 55: “agri,” id. S. 2, 4, 15: “lacus,” Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 11: “regio,” Curt. 9, 10, 2: “via (opp. palustris),” Dig. 43, 8, 2, § 32 et saep.—Sup.: “horreum siccissimum,” Col. 12, 15, 2: “oculi,” tearless, Quint. 6, 2, 27; Prop. 1, 17, 11; Hor. C. 1, 3, 18; so, “lumina,” Tib. 1, 1, 66; Luc. 9, 1044: “genae,” Prop. 4 (5), 11, 80. Ov. H. 11, 10: “decurrere pedibus super aequora siccis,” id. M. 14, 50; “and, transf.: siccus aerumnas tuli,” tearless, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1270: “pocula,” Tib. 3, 6, 18: “urna,” Hor. C. 3, 11, 23: “panis,” dry bread, Sen. Ep. 83, 6; Plin. 22, 25, 68, § 139: “agaricum manducatum siccum,” id. 26, 7, 18, § 32; Capitol. Anton. 13; Vop. Tac. 11: “spolia non sanguine sicca suo,” Prop. 4 (5), 10, 12. “cuspis,” Stat. Th. 8, 383: “ensis,” Sen. Troad. 50.—With gen.: “sicci stimulabant sanguinis enses,” i. e. bloodless, Sil. 7, 213: “carinae,” standing dry, Hor. C. 1, 4, 2: “magna minorque ferae (i. e. ursa major et minor), utraque sicca,” i. e. that do not dip into, set beneath the sea, Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 2; so, “signa,” id. ib. 4, 9, 18: “aquae,” i. e. snow, Mart. 4, 3, 7: “vox,” dried up with heat, husky, Ov. M. 2, 278 et saep.—
2. As subst.: siccum , i; and plur.: sicca , ōrum, n., dry land, a dry place; dry places: “donec rostra tenent siccum,” Verg. A. 10, 301: “in sicco,” on the dry land, on the shore, Prop. 3, 10 (9), 6; Verg. G. 1, 363; Liv. 1, 4; Plin. 9, 8, 8, § 27; 26, 7, 22, § 39: “ut aqua piscibus, ut sicca terrenis, circumfusus nobis spiritus volucribus convenit,” Quint. 12, 11, 13: “harundo, quae in siccis provenit,” Plin. 16, 36, 66, § 165; so, “in siccis,” id. 17, 22, 35, § 170.—
B. In partic.
1. Of the weather, dry, without rain: “sive annus siccus est ... seu pluvius,” Col. 3, 20, 1: “ver,” Plin. 11, 29, 35, § 101: “aestivi tempora sicca Canis,” Tib. 1, 4, 6; “for which: incipit et sicco fervere terra Cane,” Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 4: “sole dies referente siccos,” Hor. C. 3, 29, 20: “siccis aër fervoribus ustus,” Ov. M. 1, 119: “caelum,” Plin. 18, 12, 31, § 123: “ventus,” id. 2, 47, 48, § 126; Luc. 4, 50: “luna,” Prop. 2, 17 (3, 9), 15; Plin. 17, 9, 8, § 57; cf. id. 17, 14, 24, § 112: “nubes,” i. e. without rain, Luc. 4, 331: “hiemps,” without snow, Ov. Am. 3, 6, 106.—
2. Of the human body, dry, as a healthy state (opp. rheumy, catarrhal, tumid, etc.), firm, solid, vigorous: “(mulier) sicca, succida,” Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 192; Petr. 37: “corpora sicciora cornu,” Cat. 23, 12: “corpora graciliora siccioraque,” Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 65: “(puella) Nec bello pede ... nec ore sicco,” free from saliva, Cat. 43, 3; cf. “tussis,” without expectoration, Cels. 4, 6: “medicamentum,” causing dryness, Scrib. Comp. 71. —
3. Dry, thirsty: “nimis diu sicci sumus,” Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 41; cf.: “siti sicca sum,” id. Curc. 1, 2, 26; 1, 2, 22; id. Ps. 1, 2, 51; Hor. S. 2, 2, 14: “faucibus siccis,” fasting, Verg. A. 2, 358.—
b. Transf., abstemious, temperate, sober (syn. sobrius): Art. Ego praeter alios meum virum fui rata Siccum, frugi, continentem, etc. Pa. At nunc dehinc scito, illum ante omnes ... Madidum, nihili, incontinentem, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 7; so (opp. vinolentus) Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 88; id. Agr. 1, 1, 1; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 395, 4 (opp. vinolenti); Sen. Ep. 18, 3; Hor. S. 2, 3, 281; id. C. 4, 5, 39: “siccis omnia dura deus proposuit,” id. ib. 1, 18, 3; id. Ep. 1, 19, 9; 1, 17, 12.—
II. Trop.
1. Firm, solid (acc. to I. B. 2.): “(Attici) sani duntaxat et sicci habeantur,” Cic. Opt. Gen. 3, 8; cf.: “nihil erat in ejus oratione nisi sincerum, nihil nisi siccum atque sanum,” id. Brut. 55, 202; Quint. 2, 4, 6.—
2. Of style, dry, insipid, jejune (acc. to I. B. 3.): “siccum et sollicitum et contractum dicendi propositum,” Quint. 11, 1, 32: “sicca et incondita et propemodum jejuna oratio,” Gell. 14, 1, 32: “durus et siccus,” Tac. Or. 21: “ne sicci omnino atque aridi pueri rhetoribus traderentur,” ignorant, unformed, unprepared, Suet. Gram. 4.—
3. Dry, cold: “medullae,” i. e. void of love, cold, Prop. 2, 12 (3, 3), 17; so, “puella,” Ov. A. A. 2, 686; Mart. 11, 81, 2; cf. id. 11, 17, 8.—Hence, adv.: siccē , dryly, without wet or damp (very rare; perh. only in the two foll. passages).
A. Lit.: “ut bos sicce stabuletur,” Col. 6, 12, 2.—
