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stilla, ae, f. [dim. of stĭria; cf. Fest. s. v. stiricipium, p. 345 Müll.; Corss. 1, p. 518], a drop (a dense, viscous, gummy, fatty drop; whereas gutta is a natural, liquid drop: gutta imbrium est, stilla olei vel aceti, Suet. Fragm. p. 319, 27 Roth).

  1. I. Lit. (rare but class.): stilla muriae, * Cic. Fin. 3, 14, 45; Plin. 29, 4, 21, § 70: sicca et sine stillis arbor, Vitr. 2, 9, 3; Serv. Verg. A. 3, 366: olei, App. M. 5, p. 169: stilla saeva (arborum), Plin. 17, 12, 19, § 92.
  2. II. Transf., a drop, i. e. a small quantity (post-Aug.): olei, Mart. 12, 70, 3.
    Trop.: pauculae temporum, a very little, a moment Aug. Ep. 140.
  3. III. In later Lat. = gutta, stillae pluviae, Vulg. Job, 36, 27: roris, id. ib. 38, 28: pluviarum, id. Jer. 3, 3.

stillanter, adv. [stillo], drop by drop, Ambros. Ep. 41, 14.

stillārĭum, ii, n. [stilla], an added drop, a trifling addition, Sen. Ep. 97, 2.

* stillātīcĭus, a, um, adj. [stillo], dropping, dripping, stillatitious: resina, Plin. 16, 11, 22, § 54.

* stillātim, adv. [stilla], by drops, drop by drop: stillatim cadere, Varr. L. L. 5, § 27 Müll.

stillātĭo, ōnis, f. [stillo], a dropping down, falling in drops (late Lat.): pluviae, Hier. in Mich. 1, 2, 6.

stillātīvus, a, um, adj. [stillo], dropping, dripping (late Lat.): mel, Plin. Val. 1, 18.

stillĭcĭdĭum (also written stilĭcĭd-; v. Lachm. ad Lucr. p. 33), ii, n. [stilla-cado], a liquid which falls drop by drop, a dripping moisture, stillicide: stillicidium eo quod stillatim cadat, Varr. L. L. 5, § 27 Müll.

  1. I. In gen. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): stillicidi casus lapidem cavat, Lucr. 1, 313: grandinis, Sen. Q. N. 4, 3, 2: urinae, Plin. 30, 8, 21, § 66; cf. vesicae, id. 28, 8, 32, § 122: arborum, id. 17, 12, 18, § 89: mellis, Tert. Spect. 27 fin.: raritas nubium stillicidia dispergit, App. de Mundo, p. 61.
    1. B. Trop.: per stillicidia emittere animam quam semel exhalare, little by little, Sen. Ep. 101, 14.
  2. II. In partic., falling rain, rain-water falling from the eaves of houses (class.): jura parietum, luminum, stillicidiorum, Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 173; id. Or. 21, 79; id. Top. 5, 27; Vitr. 2, 1; Dig. 8, 6, 8; 8, 2, 20; Pall. Aug. 8, 2.

stillo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a [stilla].

  1. I. Neutr., to drop, drip, trickle, distil (mostly poet.; syn. roro).
    1. A. Lit.: vas, unde stillet lente aqua, Varr. R. R. 1, 41, 2: gutta (dulcedinis) in cor, Lucr. 4, 1060: umorem, quasi igni cera super calido tabescens multa liquescat, id. 6, 515: cruor ferro, Prop. 2, 8, 26 (2, 8 b, 26 (10)): unguenta capillo, Tib. 1, 7, 51: de viridi ilice mella, Ov. M. 1, 112: ros, id. ib. 11, 57: hammoniaci lacrima stillat m harenis, Plin. 12, 23, 49, § 107.
    2. B. Transf., of things which drop or drop with a liquid: saxa guttis manantibu’ stillent, Lucr. 6, 943’ paenula multo nimbo, Juv. 5, 79: coma Syrio rore, Tib. 3, 4, 28: sanguine sidera, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 11; cf.’ arbor sanguineis roribus, Luc. 7, 837; Sen. Thyest 1061
      Without abl.: umida saxa, super viridi stillantia musco, Lucr. 5, 951: ille, qui stillantem prae se pugionem tulit, * Cic. Phil. 2, 12, 30: uva, Mart. 10, 56, 5; Vulg. Job, 16, 21.
    3. C. Trop.: stillantes voces, words that ooze out drop by drop, Calp. Ecl. 6, 23; cf.: orationem stillare, Sen. Ep. 40, 3: plumis stillare diem, to be full, to abound in, Stat. Th. 3, 537.
  2. II. Act., to cause to drop, let fall in drops, to drop, distil: stillabit amicis Ex oculis rorem, * Hor. A. P. 429: coctam caepam cum adipe anserino, Plin. 20, 5, 20, § 40: stillata De ramis electra, dropped, distilled, Ov. M. 2, 364: stillata cortice myrrha, id. ib. 10, 501; acre malum stillans ocellus, Juv. 6, 109.
    1. B. Trop., to drop, instil: cum facilem stillavit in aurem Exiguum de veneno, Juv. 3, 123.