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|lshtext=<b>rōro</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and<br /><b>I</b> a. [ros], to [[let]] [[fall]], [[drop]], or [[distil]] [[dew]] (syn. [[stillo]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Neutr.: ([[Aurora]]) toto rorat in orbe, Ov. M. 13, 622: cum rorare Tithonia conjux Coeperit, id. F. 3, 403: rorate, caeli, Vulg. Isa. 45, 8. — More [[usually]] impers., [[dew]] falls, it drizzles, it sprinkles: [[ante]] rorat [[quam]] [[pluit]], Varr. L. L. 7, § 58; Col. 11, 2, 45; 76; Plin. 17, 10, 14, § 74; Suet. Aug. 92. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Act.: [[tellus]] rorata [[mane]] pruinā, moistened, besprinkled, Ov. F. 3, 357.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., to [[drop]], [[trickle]], [[drip]], [[distil]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Neutr.: lacrimis spargunt rorantibus ora genasque, [[with]] trickling, [[flowing]], Lucr. 2, 977 (cf. [[infra]], b.): rorant pennaeque sinusque, [[drip]] or [[shed]] [[moisture]], Ov. M. 1, 267: comae, id. ib. 5, 488: ora dei madidā barbā, id. ib. 1, 339; cf. id. ib. 3, 683; 177; 14, 786: [[sanguine]] [[vepres]], Verg. A. 8, 645; 11, 8: [[lacte]] capellae, id. Cul. 75: ora, Luc. 2, 123: hostili cruore [[arma]], Quint. Decl. 4, 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Act., to [[bedew]], to [[moisten]], [[wet]]: circumstant, lacrimis rorantes ora genasque, Lucr. 3, 469: saxa cruore, Sil. 10, 263. — And [[with]] the [[liquid]] as an [[object]]: [[quam]] [[caelum]] intrare parantem Roratis lustravit aquis [[Iris]], [[with]] sprinkled waters, Ov. M. 4, 479; id. F. 4, 728: si roraverit [[quantulum]] [[cumque]] imbrem, Plin. 17, 10, 14, § 74.—Absol.: pocula rorantia, [[which]] yielded the [[wine]] [[drop]] by [[drop]] (a transl. of the Gr. ἐπιψεκάζειν), * Cic. Sen. 14, 46: rorans juvenis, the [[youth]] pouring [[out]], the [[young]] [[cup]]-[[bearer]], i. e. [[Ganymedes]], as a [[constellation]] (Aquarius), Manil. 5, 482.— *<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., to [[drop]], [[distil]], etc.: si minutis illis suis et rorantibus responsionibus satisfaciet consulenti, Macr. S. 7, 9.
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