I. Lit., sweat, perspiration: manat ex omni corpore sudor, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 399 Vahl.); Lucr. 6, 944: “sudor e corpore,” Cic. Div. 2, 27, 58; cf.: totum sudor habet corpus, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 3 (Ann. v. 436 Vahl.): “sudorem multum consecutum esse audiebamus,” Cic. de Or. 3, 2, 6: “Herculis simulacrum multo sudore manavit,” id. Div. 1, 34, 74: “sudor fluit undique rivis,” Verg. A. 5, 200: “salsusque per artus Sudor iit,” id. ib. 2, 174: “gelidus toto manabat corpore sudor,” id. ib. 3, 175: “equos Fumantis sudore quatit,” id. ib. 12, 338: “cum sudor ad imos Manaret talos,” Hor. S. 1, 9, 10: “occupat obsessos sudor mihi frigidus artus,” Ov. M. 5, 632: “sudore fluentia multo Bracchia,” id. ib. 9, 57; Sen. Oedip. 923; id. Troad. 487: “quibusdam in conspectu populi sudor erumpit,” id. Ep. 2, 2; 122, 6.—As obj. of verbs: “sudorem emittere,” Plin. 7, 18, 18, § 78: “sudores evocare,” id. 27, 9, 48, § 72: “ciere,” id. 37, 10, 46, § 115: “facere,” id. 24, 6, 20, § 30: “movere,” id. 24, 11, 60, § 101; Cels. 2, 17: “elicere,” id. 2, 17: “excutere,” Nep. Eum. 5, 5: “ducere,” Scrib. Comp. 217: “detergere,” Suet. Ner. 24 init.: “sistere,” Plin. 35, 17, 57, § 196: “sudorem coërcere,” id. 23, 1, 25, § 50: “reprimere,” id. 20, 13, 51, § 142: “sudores sedare,” id. 35, 15, 52, § 185: “inhibere,” id. 28, 19, 79, § 260.—Plur.: “sudoribus corpus exinanire,” Sen. Ep. 108, 16: “sudores exsistere toto corpore,” Lucr. 3, 154: “caeli,” honey-dew, Plin. 11, 12, 12, § 30.—
B. Transf., of any liquid or moisture (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; “syn. umor): maris,” Lucr. 2, 465: “smyrnae,” id. 2, 504: “veneni,” Ov. M. 2, 198: “picis (with liquor),” Plin. 16, 11, 21, § 52: “lapidis,” id. 35, 15, 52, § 186: “argentum quod exit a fornace sudorem vocant,” id. 33, 4, 21, § 69; cf. Sen. Q. N. 3, 15 fin.; Vitr. 8, 1 med.; Dig. 43, 19, 1 med.—
II. Trop. (cf. sudo, I. B.), sweat, i. e. toil, severe labor, weariness, fatigue (class.; syn.: labor, contentio): Salmacida spolia sine sudore et sanguine, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61 (Trag. v. 36 Vahl.): “victor exercitus, qui suo sudore ac sanguine inde (a Capuā) Samnites depulisset,” Liv. 7, 38; cf.: “multo ejus sudore ac labore,” Cic. Font. 5, 12 (1, 2); Plaut. Merc. 4, 1, 8: “stilus ille tuus multi sudoris est,” Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 257: “sudor circa testimonia,” Quint. 5, 7, 1; 6, 4, 6: “summo cum sudore consequi,” Vell. 2, 128, 3: “phalerae multo sudore receptae,” Verg. A. 9, 458: “creditur Sudoris minimum habere comoedia,” Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 169: non est viri timere sudorem, Sen. Ep. 31, 7: “sudore acquirere quod possis sanguine parare,” Tac. G. 14: et bellicos sudores nostros barbaricae gentes cognoscunt, Just. Inst. prooem. § 1.