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Vĕlĭa, ae, f.
vēlĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj. [velum-fero], sail-bearing: carina, Prop. 3, 9 (4, 8), 35; Ov. M. 15, 719; Luc. 1, 495: malus, Val. Fl. 1, 126: venti, Sen. Thyest. 129.
vēlĭfĭcātĭo, ōnis, f. [velifico], a making sail, sailing.
* vēlĭfĭcĭum, ii, n. [velifico], a making sail, sailing: velificia primum invenit Isis, Hyg. Fab. 277.
vēlĭfĭco, āre (act. collat. form of velificor), to sail, make sail: nauta per urbanas velificabat aquas, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 6: per summa aequora, Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 103; 9, 29, 47, § 88: erectis capitibus, id. 8, 13, 13, § 35.
Pass.: velificatus Athōs, sailed through, Juv. 10, 174.
vēlĭfĭcor, ātus (inf. parag. velificarier, Afr. Com. 267), 1, v. dep. n. [velum-facio], to make sail, spread sail, sail.
* vēlĭfĭcus, a, um, adj. [velificor], made with sails, sailing: cursu navigii, Plin. 13, 11, 21, § 70.
vēlĭger, gĕra, gĕrum, adj. [velumgero], sail-bearing, covered with sails: mare, Cassiod. Var. 7, 9.
1. Vĕlīnus lăcus or simply Vĕlī-nus, a lake in the Sabine territories, between Reate and Interamnum, Plin. 3, 12, 17, § 108; Verg. A. 7, 517: Rosea rura Velini, id. ib. 7, 712.
It gave its name to Vĕlīna trĭbus, the people who dwelt around this lake, Cic. Att. 4, 15, 9; Liv. Epit. 19 fin.; called also Velina, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 52; Pers. 5, 73.
2. Vĕlīnus, a, um, v. Velia, III. 2.
vēlĭtāris, e, adj. [veles], of or belonging to the velites: arma, Sall. J. 105, 2: hastae, Liv. 26, 4, 4; 38, 20, 1; Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 201: auxilium, Amm. 20, 1, 3.
Subst.: vēlĭtāres, ium, m., = velites (late Lat.), Amm 19, 3, 1.
vēlĭtātĭo, ōnis, f. [velitor], a skirmishing with words, a bickering, wrangling, dispute (Plautin.): velitatio dicta est ultro citroque probrorum objectatio, ab exemplo velitaris pugnae, Fest. p. 369 Müll.: velitatio dicitur levis contentio, dicta ex congressione militum (i.e. velitum), Non. p. 3: verbis velitationem fieri, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 41 (al. as one word, verbivelitationem; cf. Ussing ad loc.): me ad velitationem exerceo. id. Rud. 2, 6, 41.
Vĕlīternīnus, a, um, v. Velitrae, B.
1. Vĕlīternus, a, um, v. Velitrae, A.
2. Vĕlīternus, i, m., a proper name, Sil. 13, 229.
vēlĭtes, um, v. veles.
vēlĭtor, ātus, 1, v. dep. n. [veles], to fight like the velites or light troops, to skirmish (ante- and post-Aug.).
Vĕlītrae, ārum, f., a town of the Volsci, in Latium, whence came the Octavian family, now Velletri, Liv. 2, 31; 2, 34; 6, 36; Suet. Aug. 1; 6; 94; Sil. 8, 379.
Hence,
* vēlĭvŏlans, antis, adj. [velum-volo], sail-flying, flying with sails, a poet. epithet of a ship: naves, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 67; cf. velivolus.
vēlĭvŏlus, a, um, adj. [velum-volo], sail-flying, winged with sails, a poet. epithet of a ship: naves, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 5 (Ann. v. 381, and Trag. v. 111 Vahl.); Ov. P. 4, 5, 42.
Absol.: mare velivolis florebat puppibus, i. e. with ships, Lucr. 5, 1442 (1440).
Transf., an epithet of the sea: maria alta velivola, Liv. And. ap. Macr. S. 6, 5: mare, Verg. A. 1, 224; Ov. P. 4, 16, 21.