I.to be dry (not in Cic.).
I. Lit.: “ubi (amurca) arebit,” Cato, R. R. 76; 69: “uti, quom exivissem ex aquā, arerem tamen,” Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 50; 2, 7, 18: “(tellus) sucis aret ademtis,” Ov. M. 2, 211; so id. ib. 15, 268.—
II. Trop. of things, to be dried up or withered: “arentibus siti faucibus,” Liv. 44, 38; so Sen. Ben. 3, 8: “fauces arent,” Ov. M. 6, 355: “aret ager,” Verg. E. 7, 57: “pars, super quam non plui, aruit,” Vulg. Amos, 4, 7: omnia ligna agri aruerunt, ib. Joel, 1, 12; ib. Marc. 11, 21; ib. Apoc. 14, 15.—Rarely of persons, to languish from thirst: “in mediā Tantalus aret aquā,” Ov. A. A. 2, 606; so, “Sic aret mediis taciti vulgator in undis,” id. Am. 3, 7, 51. —Hence, ārens , entis, P. a.
I. Lit., dry, arid, parched: “saxa,” Ov. M. 13, 691: “arens alveus (fluminis),” Vulg. Jos. 3, 17: “arva,” Verg. G. 1, 110: “rosae,” id. ib. 4, 268; id. A. 3, 350: “harenae,” Hor. C. 3, 4, 31: cetera (loca) abrupta aut arentia, * Tac. A. 15, 42. —
II. Trop., languishing or fainting from thirst, thirsty: “trepidisque arentia venis Ora patent,” Ov. M. 7, 556; 14, 277: “faux,” Hor. Epod. 14, 4.—Poet. as an epithet of thirst itself: “sitis,” Ov. H. 4, 174; Sen. Thyest. 5 (cf.: “sitis arida,” Lucr. 6, 1175; Ov. M. 11, 129).
