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|lshtext=<b>āĕrĭus</b>: (quadrisyl.), [[more]] rar. āĕrĕ-us, a, um, adj., = [[ἀέριος]].<br /><b>I</b> Pertaining to the [[air]], aërial (a [[poet]]. [[word]], [[which]] Cic. uses [[only]] in [[higher]] flights of [[speech]]): volucres, Lucr. 5, 825; Cic. Univ. 10: [[volatus]] avium [[atque]] [[cantus]], id. Top. 20: aërias vias carpere, [[their]] [[way]] in the [[air]], Ov. A. A. 2, 44: aërias tentăsse domos, the heavens, * Hor. C. 1, 28, 5 al.—Hence aërium mel, [[because]] the [[bee]] [[was]] believed to [[collect]] its [[honey]] from falling [[dew]], Verg. G. 4, 1. —<br /><b>II</b> Rising [[aloft]], [[airy]], [[high]].—So esp. of mountains: [[Alpes]], Verg. G. 3, 474; Ov. M. 2, 226: aërio vertice [[Taurus]], Tib. 1, 7, 15 (aetherio, Müll.): [[cacumen]], Cat. 64, 240 al. —Of trees: [[quercus]], Verg. A. 3, 680: [[ulmus]], id. E. 1, 59.—Of [[other]] things: arces, Verg. A. 3, 291: ([[capra]]) cornibus aëriis, Ov. F. 5, 119.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Aëria [[spes]], [[airy]], i. e. [[quickly]] [[flying]] [[away]], [[vain]], fleeting, [[transitory]], Arn. 2, p. 86.
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