I.to wet, moisten, dip, tinge, touch, etc. (class.; cf.: inficio, infusco).
I. Lit.: “liquoribus lanam,” Col. 9, 14, 15: tapetes, quos concha purpura imbuens venenavit, Cn. Matius ap. Gell. 20, 9, 3: “cados amurca,” Plin. 15, 8, 8, § 33: “guttura lacte,” Ov. Ib. 131: “imbuti sanguine gladii legionum vel madefacti potius,” wet, or rather dripping with blood, Cic. Phil. 14, 3, 6: “sanguis novus imbuit arma,” Verg. A. 7, 554: “sanguine manus,” Vell. 2, 20, 1: “vestis imbuta sanguine,” Ov. M. 9, 153: “munus tabo imbutum,” Hor. Epod. 5, 65: “tela imbuta veneno,” Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 77: “oscula, quae Venus Quinta parte sui nectaris imbuit,” Hor. C. 1, 13, 16: “odore imbuta Testa,” id. Ep. 1, 2, 69.—With Gr. acc.: “alium quae sunt inbuta colorem,” Lucr. 2, 734 Munro.—
II. Trop.
A. In gen., to fill, tinge, stain, taint, infect, imbue, imbrue with any thing (esp. freq. in part. perf.): morte manus, Att. ap. Non. 521, 8; cf.: “gladium scelere,” Cic. Phil. 5, 7, 20: “talibus promissis aures militum,” Curt. 4, 10, 17: “militum sanguine manus,” id. 3, 8, 5.—
(β).
In part. perf.: “aliqua humanitate imbuti,” Varr. R. R. 1, 17, 4; cf.: “religione imbuti,” Cic. Div. 1, 42, 93: “imbutus admiratione,” Liv. 21, 39, 7: “legiones favore Othonis,” Tac. H. 2, 85: “miles longo Caesarum sacramento,” id. ib. 1, 5: “imbuti et infecti Romanis delenimentis,” Liv. 40, 11, 3: “imbutus alicujus consiliis,” id. 42, 26, 8: “hac ille crudelitate imbutus,” Cic. Phil. 3, 3, 4: “superstitione,” id. Fin. 1, 18, 60: “sociale bellum macula sceleris imbutum,” id. Font. 14, 31: “colonorum caede imbutis armis,” Liv. 4, 31, 7: “imbutae caede manus,” Ov. A. A. 2, 714: “imbutae praeda manus,” Tac. A. 1, 36.—
B. In partic.
1. To inspire or impress early, to accustom, inure, initiate, instruct, imbue: “his ego de artibus gratiam facio, ne colas, ne inbuas eis tuom ingenium,” Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 17: “quibus ille studiis ab ineunte aetate se imbuerat,” Cic. Deiot. 10, 28; cf.: “animum tenerum opinionibus,” id. Att. 14, 13, B, 4: “variis erroribus,” id. Tusc. 3, 1, 2: “adulescentuli castrensibus stipendiis imbuebantur,” Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 5: “liberaliter educatos servilibus vitiis imbuisse,” Liv. 26, 2, 11: “nemo est tam immanis, cujus mentem non imbuerit deorum opinio,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 13, 30; cf.: “ea pietate omnium pectora imbuerat, ut, etc.,” Liv. 1, 21, 1: “inter novitatem successoris, quae noscendis prius quam agendis rebus inbuenda sit,” id. 41, 15, 8: “imbuendis sociis ad officia legum,” Tac. A. 12, 32: “nec quicquam prius imbuuntur quam contemnere deos,” id. H. 5, 5: “qui honestis sermonibus aures imperatoris imbuant,” id. ib. 4, 7; id. Or. 29; 31: “optume cum domito juvencus imbuitur,” is trained to labor, Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 180.—
2. To do any thing for the first time, explore, essay, set the example (poet.): “illa rudem cursu prima imbuit Amphitriten,” was the first to navigate, Cat. 64, 11: “terras vomere,” to plough first, Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 52; Val. Fl. 1, 69: “phialam nectare,” to fill first, Mart. 8, 51, 17: bellum sanguine, to initiate, i. e. to begin, Verg. A. 7, 542; cf. ib. 554: “juvenem primo Hymenaeo (conjux),” Sil. 3, 65: “imbuis exemplum primae tu, Romule, palmae,” begin, set the example, Prop. 4 (5), 10, 5. “opus,” Ov. A. A. 1, 654.—
3. Esp. in part. perf., somewhat instructed, imbued, initiated, trained: “nos ita a majoribus instituti atque imbuti sumus, ut. etc.,” Cic. Phil. 10, 10, 20; cf.: “et doctrina liberaliter institutus et aliquo jam imbutus usu,” id. de Or. 2, 39, 162: “parentum praeceptis imbuti,” id. Off. 1, 32, 118: imbutus rudimentis militiae, Vell. 2, 129, 2; cf.: “imbutum jam a juventa certaminibus plebeiis,” Liv. 5, 2, 13: “cognitiones verborum, quibus imbuti sumus,” Cic. Fin. 2, 5, 16: “dialecticis imbutus,” id. Tusc. 1, 7, 14; cf.: “litteris saltem leviter imbutus,” Quint. 1, 2, 16: “quasi non perfectum litteris sed imbutum,” Suet. Gramm. 4: “(verna) Litterulis Graecis imbutus,” Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 7: “ad quam (legem) non docti, sed facti, non instituti, sed imbuti sumus,” Cic. Mil. 4, 10; “so opp. instructus: elementis studiorum etsi non instructus, at certe imbutus,” Tac. Or. 19.—Poet.: “aurea pavonum ridenti imbuta lepore saecla,” endued, Lucr. 2, 502 Munro (dub.; v. Lachm. Lucr. 2, p. 102).
