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ăquaelīcĭum (ăquīlīcĭum), ii, n. [aqua-elicio], a means (sacrifice, etc.) to produce rain: aquaelicium dicitur, cum aqua pluvialis remediis quibusdam elicitur, ut quondam, si creditur, manali lapide in urbem ducto, Paul. ex Fest. p. 2 Müll.; Tert. Apol. 40.
1. ăquĭla, ae, f. [gen. aquilāï, Cic. Arat 372) [perh. from aquilus, from its common color, Gr μελανάετος; cf. Engl. eagle; Fr. aigle; Germ. Adler], an eagle.
- I. Lit.: Falco melanaëtus, Linn.; Plin. 10, 3, 3, § 6 sqq.; Cic. Div 1, 15, 26; 2, 70, 144; Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 4, Liv 1, 34, 8; Verg. A. 11, 751; Ov. M. 1, 506; Hor. C. 4, 4, 32: aquilis velociores, Vulg. 2 Reg. 1, 23 si exaltatus fueris ut aquila, ib. Abd. 4: dilata calvitium tuum ut aquila, ib. Mich. 1, 16.
Poet., the lightningbearer of Jupiter. Jovis satelles, Cic. Tusc. 2, 10, 24: armigera Jovis, Plin. l. l.; cf. Serv ad Verg. A. 1, 398.
- II. Transf.
- A. The eagle, as the principal standard of a Roman legion (while signa are the standards of the single cohorts; cf. Schwarz ad Plin. Pan. 82; Web. ad Luc. 7, 164; Smith, Dict. Antiq.): aquila argentea, Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 24; aquilae duae, signa sexaginta sunt relata Antonii, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30; Plin. 13, 3, 4, § 23 et saep.
Poet.: ut locupletem aquilam tibi sexagesimus annus Adferat, the office of a standard-bearer, Juv. 14, 197.
Hence, meton., a legion: erat acies tredecim aquilis constituta, Auct. B. Hisp. 30; Luc. 5, 238.
- * B. In arch.: aquilae, as in Gr. ἀετοί and ἀετώματα, the highest parts of a building, which supported the front of a gable. sustinentes fastigium aquilae, Tac. H. 3, 71.
- * C. The Eagle, a constellation, Cic. Arat. 372.
- D. A species of fish of the ray genus, the sea-eagle: Raja aquila, Linn.; Plin. 9, 24, 40, § 78.
- E. Aquilae senectus, prov., acc. to Donatus, of an old man fond of drinking (since it was believed that the eagle, in old age, drank more than it ate; but more prob., a vigorous old age), Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 10, ubi v. Don.
2. Ăquĭla, ae, m., a Roman proper name.
- I. L. Pontius Aquna, Cic. Phil. 11, 6.
- II. Julius Aquila, Tac. A. 12, 15.
- III. Vedius Aquila. Tac. A. 12, 15.
- IV. Aquila Romanus, author of a work De Figuris Sententiarum et Elocutionis; v. Teuffel, Rom. Lit. § 384.
- V. Julius Aquila, a Roman jurist, author of Liber Responsorum, of which there are extracts in Dig.; v. Bach, Hist. Jurisp. Rom. III. 3.
- VI. Aquila, the name of a Christian Jew, Vulg. Act. 18, 2; ib. Rom. 16, 3.
Aquilarĭa, ae, f., a town of Zeugitana, now prob. Alhowareah, Caes. B. C. 2, 23.
ăquĭlĕgus, a, um, adj. [aqua-lego].
- I. Water-drawing: rota, Tert. Anim. 33.
- II. Subst. = aquilex, a conduit-master, Cassiod. Var. 3, 53 dub.
Ăquĭlēia, ae, f., = Ἀκυληἱα, a town in Upper Italy, still called Aquileia, not far from Tergeste, built by the Romans after the second Punic war, as a protection against the neighboring tribes, Liv. 40, 34; Caes. B. G. 1, 10; Mart. 4, 25; Plin. 3, 18, 22, § 127; Mel. 2, 4, 3; cf. Mann. Ital. I. 74 sq.
Hence, Ăquĭlēiensis, adj.: ager, Liv. 39, 45; and Ăquĭlēienses, ium, m., the inhabitants of Aquileia, id. 43, 17.
* ăquĭlentus, a, um, adj. [aqua], full of water, humid, wet: luna, bringing rain, Varr. ap. Non. 4, 318.
ăquĭlex, ĕgis (ĭcis post-class., Tert. adv. Marc. 3, 5; Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 109), m. [aqua-lego], a conduit-master, water-inspector (= indagator aquarum, Col. 2, 2, 20), Varr. ap. Non. p. 69, 21; Plin. 26, 6, 16, § 30: Plin. Ep. 10, 46; Sen. Q. N. 3, 15.
Ăquilĭānus (Ăquill-), a, um, adj., Aquilian, proceeding from the jurist Aquilius (a friend of Cicero): quod si Aquiliana definitio vera est, Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61.
ăquīlīcĭum, v. aquaelicium.
ăquĭlĭfer, fēri, m. [aquila-fero], an eaglebearer, standard-bearer, an officer who carried the chief standard of the Roman legion, Caes. B. G. 5, 37; id. B. C. 3, 64; Suet. Aug. 10; Inscr. Orell. 3389; 3477; 4729.
ăquĭlīnus, a, um, adj. [aquila], of or pertaining to the eagle, aquiline: ungulae, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 63: aspectus, i. e. sharp, App. M. 2, p. 115.
Ăquilĭus (on coins and in inscrr. Ăquill-; in MSS. Ăquil-), a, um, adj., name of a Roman gens; hence,
- I. Subst.: Ăquilĭus, m.
- 1.
- A. M. Aquilius Gallus, consul A.U.C. 653, Cic. Ac. 3, 54, 125; id. de Or. 2, 28, 124.
- B. C. Aquilius Gallus, a Roman jurist and orator, Cic. Brut. 42, 154; id. Off. 2, 14, 50.
- C. Aquilius Niger, a Roman historian, Suet. Aug. 11.
- 2. Ăqui-lĭa, f.
- II. Adj.: Aquilia lex de damno injuriā dato, perh. introduced by the tribune Aquilius Gallus, Cic. Brut. 34, 131.
ăquĭlo, ōnis, m. [perh. from aqua, as bringing wet weather, or aquilus, dark, as bringing lowering and stormy weather].
- I.
- A. Lit., the north wind; Gr. Βορεας; plur., Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26; Ov. M. 2, 132; 5, 285; 10, 77 al.; acc. to accurate nautical designation, north-one-third-east wind, between the septentrio and vulturnus, opp. to Auster Africanus or Libonotus, Sen. Q. N. 5, 16; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 119 sq.: horrifer Aquilonis stridor gelidas molitur nives, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 68: cum ille vento Aquilone venisset Lemnum, Nep. Milt. 1, 5: Aquilo frigidus, Verg. G. 2, 404: densus, id. ib. 3, 196: stridens Aquilone procella, id. A. 1, 102: hiems aquilonibus asperat undas, id. ib. 3, 285: impotens, Hor. C. 3, 30, 3: clarus, Verg. G. 1, 460: Threïcius, Hor. Epod. 13, 3: ad aquilonem et ad austrum, Vulg. 1 Par. 9, 24; ib. Luc. 13, 29: ad aquilonem et meridiem, ib. Gen. 13, 14 et persaepe (in the Vulg. only in sing.).
Plur.: Africum Decertantem aquilonibus, Hor. C. 1, 3, 13: Neptunus classes aquilonibus arcet, id. A. P. 64 al. persaepe.
- B. Meton. for the north: spelunca conversa ad aquilonem, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48.
- II. Ăquĭlo, ōnis, m.; in mythology, the husband of Orithyia and father of Calais and Zetes, who dwelt in a cave of Hæmus, Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 3; Ov. M. 7, 3; Mel. 3, 5, 1; Val. Fl. 4, 432; Hyg. Fab. 14.
ăquĭlōnāris, e, adj. [aquilo.].
- I. Northerly, northern: regio tum aquilonaris, tum australis, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 50 (but v. aquilonius).
- II. Piscis aquilonaris, a constellation, the Northern Fish, Vitr. 9, 6; cf. Cic. Fragm. ix. 2, p. 580 Orell.
Ăquĭlōnĭa, ae, f., a town of the Hirpini, upon the river Aufidus, now Lacedogna, Liv. 10, 38; 39, 41 sq.; cf. Mann. Ital. I. 797.—Ăquĭlōni, ōrum, m., its inhabitants, Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 105.
* Ăquĭlōnĭgĕna, ae, comm. [aquilogigno], born in the north, of northern extraction; a poet. epithet of northern nations: Britanni, Aus. Mos. 407.
ăquĭlōnĭus, a, um, adj. [aquilo].
- I. Northern, northerly, of the north: quae (regio) tum est aquilonia tum australis, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 50 B. and K.: hiems, Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 12: luna, toward the north, id. 2, 97, 99, § 215: loca, id. 27, 13, 119, § 144: Aquilonius piscis, a constellation (cf. aquilonaris), Col. 11, 2, 24 and 63; Plin. 18, 26, 65, § 237.
- II. (Acc. to aquilo, II.) Of or pertaining to Aquilo (as a person): proles, i.e. Calais and Zetes, Prop. 1, 20, 25; Val. Fl. 4, 462: pignora, Stat. Th. 5, 432.
ăquĭlus, a, um, adj. [etym. uncertain; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 22 Müll.], dark-colored, dun, swarthy (very rare): Aquilus color est fuscus et subniger, Paul. ex Fest. l. l.: Staturā haud magnā, corpore aquilo, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 152: color inter aquilum candidumque, * Suet. Aug. 79; Arn. 3, p. 108.