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|lshtext=<b>amb-ūro</b>: ussi, ustum, 3, v. a.,<br /><b>I</b> to [[burn]] [[around]], to [[scorch]] (opp. exurere, to [[burn]] [[entirely]] up); also, [[with]] an [[extension]] of the [[idea]], to [[burn]] [[wholly]] up, to [[consume]] ([[most]] freq. in [[part]]. perf.; [[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Hadrianus [[vivus]] [[exustus]] est: [[Verres]] sociorum ambustus incendio, [[tamen]] ex illā flammā periculoque evasit, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27: Herculis [[corpus]] ambustum, id. Sest. 68, 143: terret ambustus Phaëthon avaras [[spes]], Hor. C. 4, 11, 25 al.—So [[Cicero]] [[jestingly]] calls the [[tribune]] of the [[people]] Munacius [[Plancus]], at whose [[suggestion]] the enraged [[populace]] [[set]] [[fire]] to the [[senate]]-[[house]], [[tribunus]] ambustus, the singed [[tribune]] of the [[people]], Cic. Mil. 5, 12 Moeb.—Of those whom the [[lightning]] had struck, [[but]] not killed: Sen. Agam. 537: tot [[circa]] me jactis fulminibus [[quasi]] ambustus, Plin. Ep. 3, 11, 3; so Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 9; id. Mil. 3, 2, 22: [[Cassius]], quem [[fama]] est esse libris Ambustum propriis, Hor. S. 1, 10, 64: magna vis frumenti ambusta, Tac. H. 5, 12: ambustum [[theatrum]], Suet. Claud. 21 al.—Hence, ambu-stum, i, n., in medic. lang., a [[burn]]: [[inflammatio]] recentis ambusti, Plin. 24, 8, 35, § 51: sedare ambusta, id. 24, 4, 5, § 10: ambusta sanare, id. 20, 20, 82, § 217: ambusta igne vel frigore, id. 24, 8, 29, § 45 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> From the [[similarity]] of [[effect]], to [[injure]] by [[cold]], to [[nip]], [[benumb]] (cf. [[aduro]]): ambusti multorum [[artus]] vi frigoris, Tac. A. 13, 35: ambusta pruinis lumina, i. e. oculi, Val. Fl. 4, 70.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Of [[property]]: ambustas fortunarum mearum reliquias, the charred [[remains]], Cic. Dom. 43.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of one [[who]], [[when]] [[tried]] for an [[offence]], [[comes]] [[off]] [[with]] [[great]] [[trouble]]: qui damnatione collegae et suā [[prope]] ambustus evaserat, had [[come]] [[off]] scorched, Liv. 22, 35.
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