I.full of wind, windy.
I. Lit.: “folles,” Verg. A. 8, 449: “loca,” Lucr. 6, 468: “speluncae,” id. 6, 537: “mare,” Hor. C. 3, 4, 46: “aequora,” Verg. A. 6, 335; Ov. H. 16 (17), 5: “Alpes,” id. Am. 2, 16, 19: “dies,” Quint. 11, 3, 27; Col. 11, 2, 78: “murmur,” Verg. E. 9, 58: “auctumnus, hiems,” Plin. 18, 35, 80, § 352: “alae,” Prop. 2, 12 (3, 3), 5; Verg. A. 12, 848: “concha,” i. e. the tuba, Luc. 9, 349: “cucurbita,” i. e. cupping - glass, Juv. 14, 58; cf. Isid. Orig. 4, 11: “ictus,” Val. Fl. 2, 269.—Comp.: “Germania,” Tac. G. 5.— Sup.: “regio,” Liv. 36, 43, 1: “uter,” App. Mag. p. 309, 36.—
B. Transf., like the wind, i. e. light, quick, speedy, swift, nimble (poet.): “equi,” Ov. F. 4, 392; cf.: “mens cervorum,” Lucr. 3, 299.—
II. Trop.
A. Light, changeable, inconstant, fickle: Lepidus homo ventosissimus, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 9, 1: “Romae Tibur amem ventosus, Tibure Romam,” Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 12: “tu levis es multoque tuis ventosior alis (of Cupid),” Ov. Am. 2, 9, 49: “plebs,” Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 37: “ingenium,” Liv. 42, 30, 4: “extraordinarium imperium populare atque ventosum est,” Cic. Phil. 11, 7, 17.—
B. Windy, puffed up, vain, conceited, empty: “superbiebat ventosa et insolens natio, quod, etc.,” Plin. Pan. 31, 2: “ventosus et mendax vanitate,” Sen. Ira, 3, 8, 4: “gloria,” Verg. A. 11, 708; cf.: “ventoso gloria curru,” Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 177: “lingua,” Verg. A. 11, 390: “decus (opp. verus honor),” Stat. Th. 10, 711: “ventosa et enormis loquacitas,” inflated, bombastic, Petr. 2.—* Adv.: ventōsē , as if full of wind, inflatedly: “tumentes pulvilli,” App. M. 10, p. 248, 22.
