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† stĕătītis, ĭdis, f., = στεατῖτις, a precious stone, otherwise unknown; perhaps soapstone, steatite, Plin. 37, 11, 71, § 186.
† stĕătōma, ătis, n., = στεάτωμα, a kind of fatty tumor, Plin. 26, 14, 87, § 144; Veg. 3, 30, 1 (in Cels. 7, 6, written in Greek).
† stĕga, ae, f., = στέγη, the deck of a ship, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 44; id. Stich. 3, 1, 12.
Stĕgănos, i, m., = Στεγανός, one of the channels by which the city of Alexandria had access to the sea. Plin. 5, 31, 34, § 128.
† stegnus, a, um, adj., = στεγνός, making close, drawing together, costive: febres, Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 120.
† stēla, ae, f., = στήλη, a pillar, column, stele, Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 150; 6, 29, 34, § 174; Mart. Cap. 2, § 137.
† stĕlĕphūros, i, f., = στελεφοῦρος, a plant, perh. Ravenna sugar-cane: Saccharum Ravennae, Linn.; Plin. 21, 17, 61, § 101.
† stĕlis, ĭdis, f., = στελίς, a mistletoe that grows upon firs and larches, Plin. 16, 44, 93, § 245.
stella, ae, f. [for sterula; cf. Sanscr. staras; cf. Gr. ἀστήρ; Germ. Stern; Engl. star; perh. root ster- of sterno; Gr. στορέννυμι].
- I. Lit., a star (whereas sidus denotes a group of stars, a constellation; v. sidus; cf. also astrum): ignes, quae sidera et stellas vocatis, Cic. Rep. 6, 15, 15: sunt stellae naturā flammeae, id. N. D. 2, 46, 118: o magna templa caelitum commixta stellis splendidis Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 6 Müll. (Trag. v. 227 Vahl.); cf.: caelum stellis fulgentibus aptum, id. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 30 Vahl.); Lucr. 6, 357: stellae in radiis solis (non cernuntur), Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 71: maxime sunt admirabiles motus earum quinque stellarum, quae falso vocantur errantes, i. e. planets, id. N. D. 2, 20, 51; so, errantes, id. Rep. 1, 14, 22; id. Tusc. 1, 25, 62; id. N. D. 1, 13, 34 (but cf. inerrantes, fixed stars, id. ib. 3, 20, 51): stella comans, i. e. a comet, Ov. M. 15, 749; cf. id. ib. 15, 850: dum caelum stellas vehat, Tib. 1, 4, 66: simul alba nautis Stella refulsit, Hor. C. 1, 12, 28: jam stellarum sublime coëgerat agmen Lucifer, Ov. M. 11, 97: usque ad diurnam stellam, Lucifer, i. e. till daybreak, Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 64.
Prov., of an impossibility: Terra feret stellas, Ov. Tr. 1, 8, 3.
Poet., sometimes for sidus, a constellation: Saturni, Verg. G. 1, 336: Coronae, id. ib. 1, 222: vesani Leonis, Hor. C. 3, 29, 19: Icarii stella proterva canis, Ov. Am. 2, 16, 4: stella miluus, id. F. 3, 793; 5, 112.
Of the sun: stella serena, Ov. F. 6, 718.
- B. Esp., a meteor, shooting-star: saepe stellas videbis Praecipites caelo labi, Verg. G. 1, 365: de caelo lapsa per umbras Stella, id. A. 2, 694; Lucr. 2, 208: discursus stellarum, Plin. 2, 36, 36, § 100; cf.: discurrere eae (stellae) videntur, id. 18, 35, 80, § 351: videmus ergo stellarum longos a tergo albescere tractus. Hae velut stellae exsiliunt, etc., Sen. Q. N. 1, 14, 2 sq.
- II. Transf., of things resembling a star.
- A. A figure of a star: vitis in stellam dividatur … refert jugum in stellam decussari, etc., Col. 4, 17, 4 sq.; 4, 26, 3; cf. id. 3, 13, 13: Plin. 18, 10, 23, § 97: chlamys distincta aureis stellis, Suet. Ner. 25.
- B. A bright point on a precious stone, Plin. 37, 7, 25, § 96; 37, 9, 51, § 134; 37, 10, 67, § 182.
- C. A starfish, Plin. 9, 60, 86, § 183; 32, 11, 53, § 151: marina, Veg. Vet. 4 (6), 12, 3.
- D. A glowworm, Plin. 18, 27, 67, § 251.
- * E. The pupil of the eye, Claud. Idyll. 1, 36.
stellans, antis, v. stello, I.
stellāris, e, adj. [stella], of or belonging to a star, starry (post-class.): essentia, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 14 med.
Stellātīnus, a, um, v. Stellatis.
Stellātis ăger or campus, a district in Southern Campania, near Cales, Cic. Agr. 2, 31, 85; 1, 7, 20; Liv. 9, 44, 5; 10, 31, 5; 22, 13, 6; Suet. Caes. 20; Sil. 11, 268.
Hence, Stellātīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the ager Stellatis: tribus, Liv. 6, 5, 8; cf. Fest. p. 343; Inscr. Grut. 35, 3; 484, 3.
stellātūra, ae, f., a deduction from the soldiers’ rations granted to the military tribunes (late Lat.), Spart. Pescenn. 3; Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 15 med.; Cod. Th. 7, 4, 28, § 1 al.
stellātus, a, um, v. stello, II.
stellĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj. [stella-fero], star-bearing, starry (very rare): caeli stellifer cursus, * Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 18: polus, Sen. Hippol. 785: sphaera, Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 1, § 1.
stellĭger, gĕra, gĕrum, adj. [stella-gero], star-bearing, starry (mostly poet.): viae stelligerae aetheris, Varr. ap. Non. 299, 32: orbes, Cic. Arat. 238 (482): polus, Stat. Th. 12, 565: axis, id. S. 3, 3, 77: Olympus, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1907: apex, Sil. 13, 863.
* stellĭmĭcans, antis, adj. [stellamico], glittering with stars: signa, Varr. ap. Prob. Verg. E. 6, 31.
1. stellĭo (stēlĭo), ōnis, m. [stella].
- A. A newt, stellion (having star-like spots on its back): Lacerto gecko, Linn.; Plin. 29, 4, 28, § 90; 11, 26, 31, § 91; Verg. G. 4, 243; Col. 9, 7, 5.
- B. Transf., a crafty, knavish person, Plin. 30, 10, 27, § 89; App. M. 5, p. 172, 19; cf. stellionatus.
2. Stellio, ōnis, m. [1. stellio], a Roman surname, e. g. C. Afranius Stellio, Liv. 39, 23, 2.
stellĭōnātus, ūs, m. [1. stellio, B.], cozenage, trickery, cheating, stellionate (jurid. Lat.): stellionatum obici posse his, qui dolo quid fecerunt sciendum est, scilicet si aliud crimen non sit, quod obiciatur; quod enim in privatis judiciis est de dolo actio, hoc in criminibus stellionatus persecutio. Ubicumque igitur titulus criminis deficit, illic stellionatum obiciemus, etc., Dig. 47, 20, 3 sq.; 13, 7, 36; 17, 1, 29 fin.; 40, 7, 9.
stello, no perf., ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [stella].
- I. Neutr., to be set or covered with stars. So only in the part. pres. stellans, antis, bestarred, starry (poet.): caelo stellante, Lucr. 4, 212; so, caelum, Verg. A. 7, 210: tecta summi patris, Val. Fl. 5, 623: Olympus, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 19: nox, id. ib. 1, 11, 18: ora Tauri, Ov. F. 5, 603.
- B. Transf.: gemmis caudam (pavonis) stellantibus implet, glittering, shining, Ov. M. 1, 723: tegmina (i. e. vestes), gleaming, Val. Fl. 3, 98: lumina (i. e. oculi), id. ib. 2, 499: volatus (cicindelarum), Plin. 18, 26, 66, § 250: frons, covered as it were with stars, Mart. 2, 29, 9: universa armis stellantibus coruscabant, Amm. 19, 1, 2.
- II. Act., to set or cover with stars; in the verb. finit. only post-Aug. and very rare (cf. part. infra): quis caelum stellet fomes, Mart. Cap. poët. 2, § 118 (al. qui caelum stellet formis, Gron. p. 29): (gemmae) stellarum Hyadum et numero et dispositione stellantur, are set with stars, Plin. 37, 7, 28, § 100.
Trop.: ipsa vero pars materiae digna laudari quanto verborum stellatur auro, Symm. Ep. 3, 11.
Part. and P. a.: stellātus, a, um, set with stars, starry, stellate, starred (class.): stellatus Cepheus, i. e. placed in the heavens as a constellation, * Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 8: aether, Val. Fl. 2, 42: domus (deorum), Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 8; cf. id. Cons. Hon. 4, 209.
- B. Transf.: stellatus Argus, i. e. many-eyed, Ov. M. 1, 664; Stat. Th. 6, 277: jaspide fulvā Ensis, sparkling, glittering, Verg. A. 4, 261: variis stellatus corpora guttis, thickly set, Ov. M. 5, 461: gemma auratis guttis, Plin. 37, 10, 66, § 179: animal stellatum, id. 10, 67, 86, § 188: vela, id. 19, 1, 6, § 24: stellatis axibus agger, star-shaped, Sil. 13, 109; Luc. 3, 455.
stellŭla, ae, f. dim. [1. stellio, B.], a little star, asterisk, as a mark in writing; the Lat. word for asteriscus (late Lat.), Hier. Ep. 112, 19.
† stemma, ătis, n., = στέμμα.
- I. In gen., a garland, wreath (post-class.), Prud. στεφ. 10, 908; Firm. Math. 3, 8.
- II. In partic., a garland hung upon an ancestral image (post-Aug.), Sen. Ben. 3, 28, 1; Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 6.
- B. Transf., a pedigree, genealogical table, genealogical tree, Sen. Ep. 44, 1; Suet. Ner. 37; id. Galb. 2; Stat. S. 3, 3, 43; Pers. 3, 28; Juv. 8, 1; Mart. 5, 35, 4.
- 2. Trop., nobility, high value: argenti fumosa sui stemmata narrare, Mart. 8, 6, 3: referre prisci jejunii, the great antiquity, Prud. Cath. 7, 81.
Stĕna, ōrum, n., = Στενά, a narrow defile near Antigonea, in Chaonia, Liv. 32, 5.
† stĕnŏcŏrĭăsis, is, f., = στενοκορίασις, a contraction of the pupil, a disease of the eyes of horses, Veg. 3, 16.
Stentor, ŏris, m., = Στέντωρ, a Greek warrior in the army before Troy, celebrated for the strength of his lungs, Juv. 13, 112.
Hence, Stentŏrĕus, a, um, adj., Stentorian, i. e. loud-sounding: vagitus, Arn. 2, 97.
1. Stĕphănē, ēs, f., = Στεφάνη.
- I. Ancient name of the island of Samos, Plin. 5, 31, 37, § 135.
- II. Another name of the city of Prœneste, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 64.
2. Stĕphănē, ēs, m., = Στεφάνη, a mountain in Thessaly, Plin. 4, 8, 15, § 29.
Stĕphănēplŏcos, i, f., = Στεφανηπλόκος, the Chaplet-wreather, a picture by Pausias, Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 125; 21, 2, 3, § 4.
Called also, Stĕphănŏpōlĭs, is, f., = Στεφανόπωλις, the Chaplet-seller, Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 125.
Stĕphănĭo, ōnis, m., a mime of the time of Augustus, Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 159.
† stĕphănītis, ĭdis, f., = στεφανῖτις, a kind of vine, which winds about in the shape of garlands, Plin. 14, 3, 4, § 42; Macr. S. 2, 16 fin.
Called also, stĕphănītes, ae, m., = στεφανίτης, Col. 3, 2, 2; Isid. Orig. 17, 5.
Stĕphănĭum, ii, f. dim. of Stephane, a character in the Stichus of Plautus, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 54 al.
Called also, Stĕphă-niscĭdĭum, ii, f., Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 57.
† stĕphănŏmĕlis, is, f., a plant which checks bleeding at the nose, Plin. 26, 13, 84, § 136.
Stĕphănŏpolis, v. Stephaneplocos.
† stĕphănos, i, m., = στέφανος (garland), the name of several plants: Alexandri, Plin. 15, 30, 39, § 132: Aphrodites, App. Herb. 105.
Stĕphănus, i, m., = Στέφανος, a Grecian sculptor, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 33.
Stephănūsa, ae, f., = Στεφανοῦσα, the female Chaplet-wreather, a little statue of Praxiteles, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 70 Jan. and Sillig. (al. Stephusa, of the same meaning).
stercēia, ae, f. [stercus], a maidservant who cleans the excrements from children, Tert. adv. Val. 8.
As a nickname, Petr. 75, 9 (al. sterteja).
stercŏrārĭus, a, um, adj. [stercus], of or belonging to dung: crates, Varr. R. R. 1, 22, 3: porta, a gate in the temple of Vesta (v. stercus), Fest. p. 344 Müll.; cf. Bunsen’s Rome, 3, p. 12.
stercŏrātĭo, ōnis, f. [stercoro], a dunging, manuring, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 12; Col. 2, 1 fin.; 2, 16, 2; Plin. 18, 23, 53, § 192.
stercŏrātus, a, um, Part. and P. a., v. stercoro.
* stercŏrĕus, a, um, adj. [stercus], dungy, stinking: miles, as a term of abuse, Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 12.
stercŏro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [stercus].
- I. To dung, manure with dung, to muck: loca, Varr. R. R. 1, 38; Cic. Sen. 15, 54: agrum, Mart. Cap. 3, § 305; Col. 2, 16, 2; Plin. 17, 9, 6, § 50.
- II. To cleanse from dung: latrinas, Dig. 7, 1, 15: stercorata colluvies, dungheap, Col. 1, 6, 24.
Hence, stercŏ-rātus, a, um, P. a., dunged, mucked, manured: locus stercoratissimus, Col. 11, 2, 85; 2, 11, 8.
stercŏrōsus, a, um, adj. [stercus], full of excrements or dung, well manured: aqua, full of filth, impure, Col. 8, 3, 8; cf. Sen. Q. N. 3, 26, 6: solum, Col. 11, 3, 43: herbae, id. 9, 4, 7.
Sup.: locus, Cato, R. R. 46.
stercŭlīnĭum, i, v. sterquilinium.
Stercŭlĭus, ii, m. [stercus], the deity that presides over manuring, Tert. Apol. 25; Macr. S. 1, 7; Lact. 1, 20 fin.; 1, 36; Serv. Verg. G. 1, 21.
Called also, Stercŭ-lus, Prud. στεφ. 2, 450; Stercŭtus or Stercŭtĭus, Plin. 17, 9, 6, § 50; Lact. 1, 20, 36; and, Stercenĭus, Serv. Verg. A. 11, 850; cf. Aug. Civ. Dei, 18, 15; and Becker, Ant. 4, p. 16.
stercus, ŏris, n. [Gr. σκώρ; gen. σκατός, dung; Sanscr. cakrt = sakart].
- I. Lit., dung, excrements, ordure (syn.: fimus, merda), Varr. R. R. 1, 38; Col. 2, 15; Cato, R. R. 29; 37; Cic. Div. 1, 27, 57; Hor. Epod. 12, 11 al.; Fest. p. 344 Müll.; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 32 ib., and Fest. s. v. Quando stercus, pp. 258 and 259 ib.; Juv. 14, 64.
Prov.: aurum in stercore quaerere, Cassiod. Inst. Div. Lit. 1, p. 510.
- b. As a term of abuse: nolo stercus curiae dici Glauciam, Cic. de Or. 3, 41, 164.
- II. Transf.: ferri, i. e. dross, slag, Scrib. Comp. 188.
Stercŭtĭus or Stercŭtus, v. Sterculius.
† sterelȳtis, ĭdis, f., a sort of scum or litharge of silver, Plin. 33, 6, 35, § 108.
† stĕrĕŏbăta, ae, f., = στερεοβάτης, a pedestal of a column or row of columns, Vitr. 3, 3.
† stergēthron, i, n., = στέργηθρον, a plant, great houseleek, Plin. 25, 13, 102, § 160; App. Herb. 123.
Stēria, ae, f., = Στειρία, a town in Attica, Plin. 4, 7, 11, § 24.
* stērĭcŭla, ae. f. dim., the uterus of a sow that has not yet farrowed, Petr. 35, 3.
† stērigmos, i, m., = στηριγμός, the standing-still of a planet (pure Lat. stativa lux), App. de Mundo, p. 64, 25.
* stĕrĭlĕfīo, fĭĕri, v. n. [sterilis-facio], to become unfruitful, barren, or sterile: leaenae sterilefiunt in aeternum, Sol. 27 med. dub. (al. steriles fiunt).
stĕrĭlesco, ĕre, v. inch. n. [sterilis], to grow unfruitful, barren, or sterile.
- I. Lit.: leaenae, Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 45: caprae pinguitudine, id. 8, 50, 76, § 200: amygdalae, id. 17, 10, 11, § 63: mamma (suis), id. 11, 40, 95, § 234.
- * II. Trop.: gaudia, Val. Cato, Dir. 9.
stĕrĭlĭcŭla, ae, f., = vulva sterilis, the womb of a sow that has never borne young, Petr. 35, 3.
stĕrĭlis, e (collat. form,
- I. acc. sing. fem sterilam sterilem, Fest. p. 316 Müll.; neutr. plur. sterila, Lucr. 2, 845; abl. sterile, Apic. 7, 1, § 258), adj. [Gr. στερεός, hard; στερίφη, στεῖρα, barren; Sanscr. starī, vacca sterilis], unfruitful, barren, sterile, of plants and animals (class. and very freq.; syn infecundus): steriles nascuntur avenae, Verg. E. 5, 37; so, ulvae, Ov. M. 4, 299: herba, id. Am. 3, 7, 31; Curt. 4, 1, 21: platani, Verg. G. 2, 70: agri, id. ib. 1, 84; id. A. 3, 141: tellus, Ov. M. 8, 789: palus, Hor. A. P. 65: harena, Verg. G. 1, 70: humus, Prop. 3, 2 (2, 11), 2; Curt. 7, 5, 34: solum, id. 3, 4, 3: steriles nimium crasso sunt semine, Lucr. 4, 1240; Cat. 67, 26: galli Tanagric’ ad partus sunt steriliores, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 6: vacca, Verg. A. 6, 251: multae (mulie res), Lucr. 4, 1251: viri, i. e. eunuchs, Cat. 63, 69; Plin. 24, 10, 47, § 78; Mart. 9, 9, 8: ova, Plin. 10, 60, 80, § 166.
- B. Transf. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.).
- 1. Of things, causing unfruitfulness or sterility: rubigo, Hor. C. 3, 23, 6: frigus, Luc. 4, 108: hiems, Mart. 8, 68, 10: serere pampinariis sterile est, produces sterility, Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 157.
- 2. In gen., barren, bare, empty: manus, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 3: sterilis amator a datis, bare of gifts, id. ib. 2, 1, 30: amicus, Juv. 12, 97; Mart. 10, 18, 3: epistulae, Plin. Ep. 5, 2, 2: saeculum, id. ib. 5, 17, 6: civitas ad aquas, App. M. 1, p. 106 fin.: vadum, Sen. Thyest. 173: corpora sonitu (with jejuna succo), that yield no sound, Lucr. 2, 845: prospectus, without human beings, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 15: domus, without children, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 62: nummi, that do not bear interest, Dig. 22, 1, 7.
With gen.: sterilis laurus baccarum, Plin. 15, 30, 39, § 130: lapides plumbi, id. 33, 7, 40, § 119.
- II. Trop., unproductive, unprofitable, fruitless, useless, vain: Februarius, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 2: quod monumentum, quod immo temporis punctum, aut beneficio sterile, aut vacuum laude? Plin. Pan. 56, 2: ne sit sterile et effetum (saeculum), id. Ep. 5, 17, 6: fama (with cassa), Stat. Th. 6, 70: labor, Mart. 10, 58, 8: pax, Tac. A. 1, 17: amor, i. e. unreturned, unrequited, Ov. M. 1, 496; Stat. S. 3, 4, 42: cathedrae, unprofitable, Mart. 1, 76, 14; Juv. 7, 203: litus sterili versamus aratro, id. 7, 49.
With gen., destitute, deprived of, unacquainted with: urbes talium studiorum fuere steriles, Vell. 1, 18 fin.: non adeo virtutum sterile saeculum, Tac. H. 1, 3: heu steriles veri! Pers. 5, 75.
stĕrĭlĭtas, ātis, f. [sterilis], unfruitfulness, barrenness, sterility (class.).
- I. Lit.: quae sit vel sterilitas agrorum vel fertilitas futura, Cic. Div. 1, 57, 131; id. Agr. 2, 26, 70: frugum, Vell. 1, 1 fin.: arborum, Plin. 16, 26, 47, § 111: annonae, Col. 2, 10, 1: vitium, id. 3, 10, 15: terrae, Vulg. Thren. 4, 9: fetus exstitit in sterilitate naturae, Cic. Div. 1, 18, 36: mulierum, Plin. 28, 8, 27, § 97: in sterilitatem castrare, id. 18, 14, 36, § 136.
Plur., Suet. Claud. 18: continuae, Plin. Ep. 10, 8 (24), 5.
- * B. Transf.: caelestis sterilitas, weather that causes unfruitfulness, Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 290: sterilitas fortunae, poverty, insufficiency, id. 14, prooem. § 4.
- * II. Trop.: in sterilitatem emarcuit (auctoritas), Plin. 15, 29, 36, § 121.
stĕrĭlus, a, um, v. sterilis init.
sternax, ācis, adj. [sterno], that throws to the ground (poet.): equus, that throws his rider, Verg. A. 12, 364; Sil. 1, 261: cives, that fall prostrate, Sid. Ep. 5, 14 fin.; so of a suppliant, id. ib. 4, 12 fin.
sterno, strāvi, strātum, 3 (pluperf. sync. strarat, Manil. 1, 774: strasset, Varr. ap. Non. 86, 8), v. a. [Gr. root ΣΤΟΡ, στορέννυμι, to spread; στρατός, camp; Sanscr. star- strnāmi = sterno; cf.: strages, struo, torus, and lātus, adj., old Lat. stlatus], to spread out, spread abroad; to stretch out, extend.
- I. Lit. (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; in Cic. only in the part. perf.; cf.: effundo, extendo, subicio, subdo): vestes, Ov. M. 8, 658: in duro vellus solo, id. F. 4, 654: bubulos utres ponte, Plin. 6, 29, 34, § 176: hic glarea dura Sternitur, Tib. 1, 7, 60: natas sub aequore virgas Sternit, i. e. scatters, strews, Ov. M. 4, 743: harenam, id. F. 3, 813; id. Am. 2, 14, 8: herbas, id. M. 7, 254: poma passim, Verg. E. 7, 54: spongeas ad lunam et pruinas, Plin. 31, 11. 47, § 123: arma per flores, Grat. Cyneg. 487: fessi sternunt corpora, stretch out their bodies, lie down, Liv. 27, 47, 9; cf.: sternunt se somno diversae in litore phocae, Verg. G. 4, 432.
Mid.: sternimur optatae gremio telluris, Verg. A. 3, 509; and: in Capitolinas certatim scanditur arces Sternunturque Jovi, Sil. 12, 340.
Part. perf.: strātus, a, um, stretched out, lying down, prostrate (syn. prostratus): strata terrae, Enn. ap. Non. 172, 20 (Trag. v. 370 Vahl.): nos humi strati, Cic. de Or. 3, 6, 22: quidam somno etiam strati, Liv. 37, 20, 5: ad pedes strati, Cic. Att. 10, 4, 3: stratum jacere et genua complecti, Quint. 6, 1, 34: nunc viridi membra sub arbuto Stratus, Hor. C. 1, 1, 21.
- 2. Of places, to extend: insulae Frisiorum, Chaucorum, etc. … sternuntur inter Helium ac Flevum, stretch out, extend, Plin. 4, 15, 29, § 101; 3, 5, 9, § 60; hence, vites stratae, spreading, Col. 5, 4, 2 (for Nep. Milt. 5, 3, v. under rarus, II. A.).
- B. In partic., to spread a thing out flat, i. e. to smooth, level (mostly poet.): sternere aequor aquis, Verg. A. 8, 89; cf.: placidi straverunt aequora venti, id. ib. 5, 763: nunc omne tibi stratum silet aequor, id. E. 9, 57: pontum, Ov. M. 11, 501: mare, Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 125: stratoque super discumbitur ostro, Verg. A. 1, 700: viam per mare, smoothed, levelled, Lucr. 3, 1030 (acc. to the Gr. ὁδὸν στορέννυμι): stratum militari labore iter, Quint. 2, 13, 16; so, hoc iter Alpes, Hoc Cannae stravere tibi, Sil. 12, 514; and trop.: praesens tibi fama benignum Stravit iter, Stat. Th. 12, 813.
- * 2. Trop. (the figure borrowed from the sea), to calm, still, moderate: odia militum, Tac. H. 1, 58 (cf.: constrata ira, Stat. S. 2, 5, 1).
- II. Transf.
- A. To cover, cover over (by spreading something out; the predom. class. signif. of the word; cf. obtendo).
- 1. Of a couch, bed, etc., to spread, prepare, arrange, make: lectus vestimentis stratus est, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 30; cf.: strata cubilia sunt herbis, Lucr. 5, 1417: rogatus est a Maximo, ut triclinium sterneret … Atque ille stravit pelliculis haedinis lectulos Punicanos, Cic. Mur. 36, 75; so, lectum, lectos, biclinium, triclinia, etc., Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 33; id. Most. 1, 4, 14; id. Men. 2, 3, 3; id. Bacch. 4, 4, 70; id. Ps. 1, 2, 31; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 73; id. Ad. 2, 4, 21; Cic. Clu. 5, 14; id. Tusc. 5, 21, 61; Hirt. B. G. 8, 51: his foliis cubitus sternere, Plin. 24, 9, 38, § 59: torum frondibus, Juv. 6, 5: strata cathedra, cushioned, id. 9, 52; cf. also, ARCERAM NE STERNITO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 25; and absol.: jubet sterni sibi in primā domus parte (sc. lectum), Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 7.
- 2. Esp., places, to cover; of a way, road, path, etc., to pave: aspreta erant strata saxis, Liv. 9, 35, 2: via strata, id. 8, 15, 8: semitam saxo quadrato straverunt, id. 10, 23 fin.; so, vias silice … clivum Capitolinum silice … emporium lapide, id. 41, 27, 5 sq.; and absol.: locum illum sternendum locare, Cic. Att. 14, 15, 2: pavimentum stratum lapide, Vulg. Ezech. 40, 17: viam lapide, Dig. 43, 11, 1.
- 3. To saddle: equos, Liv. 37, 20, 12; 37, 20, 4; Veg. 5, 77: asinum, Vulg. Gen. 22, 3.
- 4. In gen., to cover, spread: argento sternunt iter omne viarum, Lucr. 2, 626: foliis nemus Multis et algā litus inutili tempestas Sternet, will strew over, bestrew, Hor. C. 3, 17, 12: congeriem silvae vellere summam, Ov. M. 9, 236: litora nive, Val. Fl. 5, 175: harenam Circi chrysocolla, Plin. 33, 5, 27, § 90: solum telis, Verg. A. 9, 666: Tyrrhenas valles caedibus, Sil. 6, 602: strati bacis silvestribus agri, Verg. G. 2, 183: ante aras terram caesi stravere juvenci, covered, id. A. 8, 719.
- B. To stretch out by flinging down, to throw down, stretch on the ground, throw to the ground, overthrow, prostrate (mostly poet., esp. in Verg.; in prose not before the Aug. period; in Cic. only once in the trop. sense; v. the foll.; cf. profligo): cujus casus prolapsi cum proximos sterneret, Liv. 5, 47: circa jacentem ducem sterne Gallorum catervas, id. 7, 26, 8: turbam invadite ac sternite omnia ferro, id. 24, 38, 7: alius sit fortis in armis, Sternat et adversos Marte favente duces, Tib. 1, 10, 30: caede viros, Verg. A. 10, 119: aliquem leto, id. ib. 8, 566: morte, id. ib. 11, 796; Liv. 31, 21, 15; Ov. M. 12, 604: adversā prensis a fronte capillis Stravit humi pronam, id. ib. 2, 477: primosque et extremos Stravit humum, Hor. C. 4, 14, 32: sternitur volnere, Verg. A. 10, 781: impetus per stratos caede hostes, Liv. 4, 29, 1: aliquem morti, Verg. A. 12, 464: irae Thyesten exitio gravi Stravere, Hor. C. 1, 16, 18: corpore toto Sternitur in vultus, Stat. Th. 12, 318: sternitur, et toto projectus corpore terrae, Verg. A. 11, 87: toto praecipitem sternit, Sil. 4, 182: hostes, Just. 2, 11, 13: Ajax stravit ferro pecus, Hor. S. 2, 3, 202: sternitur et procumbit humi bos, Verg. A. 5, 481: strata belua texit humum, Ov. H. 10, 106: rapidus torrens Sternit agros, sternit sata laeta, Verg. A. 2, 306: moenia, to overthrow, demolish, Ov. M. 12, 550; cf.: stratis ariete muris, Liv. 1, 29, 2: sternit a culmine Trojam, Verg. A. 2, 603; so, (elephanti) stabula Indorum dentibus sternunt, Plin. 8, 9, 9, § 27.
- 2. Trop. (rare): deorum plagā perculsi, afflictos se et stratos esse fatentur, cast down, prostrated, Cic. Tusc. 3, 29, 72: mortalia corda Per gentes humiles stravit pavor, Verg. G. 1, 331: virtus populi Romani haec omnia strata humi erexit ac sustulit, Liv. 26, 41, 12: stratā Germaniā, subdued, Amm. 16, 1, 5.
Hence, strātus, a, um, P. a.; as substt.
- A. strāta, ae, f. (sc. via), a paved road or way (post-class.), Eutr. 9, 15: amplas sternite jam stratas, Juvenc. 1, 315: in margine stratae, id. 3, 656.
- B. strātum, i, n. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.; acc. to II. A.).
- 1. A bed-covering, a coverlet, quilt, blanket; a pillow, bolster: lecti mollia strata, Lucr. 4, 849: proripere se e strato, Suet. Calig. 51; Ov. M. 5, 34; 10, 267.
- b. Meton. (pars pro toto), a bed, couch: haud segnis strato surgit Palinurus, Verg. A. 3, 513; cf. id. ib. 8, 415; 3, 176: tale, Nep. Ages. 8: quies neque molli strato neque silentio arcessita, Liv. 21, 4, 7.
Plur.: strataque quae membris intepuere tuis, Ov. H. 10, 54: dura, id. Am. 1, 2, 2; Luc. 1, 239.
Once also (sc. lectus) in the masc., Favorin. ap. Gell. 15, 8, 2.
- 2. A horsecloth, housing, a saddle, Ov. M. 8, 33; Liv. 7, 14, 7; Sen. Ep. 80, 9; Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 202.
Prov.: qui asinum non potest, stratum caedit (v. asinum), Petr. 45, 8.
- 3. A pavement: saxea viarum, Lucr. 1, 315; 4, 415: extraneum, Petr. poët. 55, 6, 11.
sternūmentum, i, n. [sternuo], a sneezing (class.; but cf. sternutamentum).
- I. Lit., Cic. Div. 2, 40, 84; Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 24; 21, 22, 93, § 163; 25, 5, 21, § 52; 28, 6, 15, § 57; Gell. 12, 5, 11; Cels. 3, 20; 8, 4; 8, 9.
- II. Transf., a means of provoking sneezing, sneezing-powder, Cels. 6, 7, 9; Plin. 25, 11, 86, § 135; 25, 13, 109, § 173.
sternŭo, ŭi, 3, v. n. and a. [cf. Gr. πτάρνυσθαι, v. Curt. Griech. Etym. p. 696].
- I. Neutr., to sneeze: adorare aliquem, cum sternuerit, Plin. 2, 40, 40, § 107; 28, 6, 15, § 57; 19, 3, 15, § 40 (al. sternuto); Col. 7, 5, 18 Schneid. N. cr.
- * B. Transf., of a light, to sputter, crackle: sternuit et lumen … sternuit, et nobis prospera signa dedit, Ov. H. 19, 151 sq.
- II. Act., to sneeze out, give by sneezing: omen, Prop. 2, 3, 24; so, approbationem, Cat. 45, 9 and 18.
sternūtāmentum, i, n. [sternuto], a sneezing (post-Aug.): sternutamenta erunt observanda, Sen. Ira, 2, 25, 4; Scrib. 10 (in Cic. Div. 2, 40, 84, the better reading is sternumenta).
sternūtātĭo, ōnis, f. [sternuto], a sneezing, sternutation (post-class. and rare for sternumentum), App. M. 9, p. 228, 24; Scrib. Comp. 10 fin.; Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 4, 5 fin.
sternūto, āvi, 1, v. freq. n. [sternuo], to sneeze, Petr. 98, 4; 102, 10; Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 40.
Stĕrŏpē, ēs, f., = Στερόπη.
- I. One of the Pleiades, Att. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 8, 130 (Trag. Rel. p. 135 Rib.); Ov. F. 4, 172; id. Tr. 1, 11, 14.
- II. One of the horses of the sun, Hyg. Fab. 183.
Stĕrŏpes, is, m., = Στερόπης, one of the Cyclops in Vulcan’s smithy, Verg. A. 8, 425; Ov. F. 4, 288; Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 195; id. Rapt. Pros. 1, 239; acc. Steropem, Stat. S. 1, 1, 4.
sterquĭlīnĭum (in MSS. also written stercŭl- and stercĭl-, Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 3; Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 41; Dig. 19, 1, 17, § 2), ii, n. (collat. form sterquĭlīnum, i, Phaedr. 3, 12, 1) [stercus], a dung-pit, laystall, mixen, Cato, R. R. 2, 3; Varr. 1, 13, 4; 1, 38, 3; Col. 1, 6, 21; 7, 5, 8; Phaedr. l. l.
As a term of reproach, Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 3; id. Cas. 1, 26; Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 41.
Stertĭnĭus, ii, m., a Stoic philosopher, Hor. S. 2, 3, 33; 2, 3, 296.
Adj.: Stertĭ-nĭus, a, um, of Stertinius: acumen, Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 20.
sterto, ŭi (acc. to Prisc. p. 903 P.; cf. desterto), 3, v. n. [cf.: δέρθω, δαρθάνω],
- I. to snore: noctem totam stertere, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 22; id. Mil. 3, 2, 7: stertit noctes et dies, Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 49; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 27: Marcellus ita stertebat, ut ego vicinus audirem, Cic. 4, 3, 5; id. Ac. 2, 29, 93: diem totum stertebat, Hor. S. 1, 3, 18: qui vigilans stertis, Lucr. 3, 1048; Pers. 3, 3; 5, 132: vigilanti stertere naso, Juv. 1, 57: altiore stertitur somno, Amm. 27, 12, 8.
- II. Trop.: qui stertit aestate, Vulg. Prov. 10, 5.
P. a. as subst.: stertens, entis, a snorer: prodi stertentium sonitu, Plin. 9, 10, 12, § 36.
Stēsĭchŏrus, i, m., = Στησίχορος, a Greek lyric poet of Himera: Stesichori graves Camenae, Hor. C. 4, 9, 8; cf. Quint. 10, 1, 62; Cic. Sen. 7, 23; id. Verr. 2, 2, 35, § 87; Stat. S. 5, 3, 154.