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|lshtext=<b>frīgĕo</b>: ēre, v. n. [[frigus]],<br /><b>I</b> to be [[cold]], [[chilly]], to [[freeze]] (opp. calere, to be [[hot]], to [[glow]]; [[whereas]] algere, [[subject]]., to [[feel]] [[cold]], to [[freeze]], is opp. aestuare, to [[feel]] [[hot]]; v. [[caleo]] and [[algeo]]; [[class]].; esp. freq. in the trop. [[sense]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: tange: si non [[totus]] friget, me enica, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 5; cf.: summosque [[pedes]] attinge manusque: Non frigent, Pers. 3, 109: friget [[aether]], Auct. Aetn. 331: corpusque lavant frigentis et unguunt, of him [[who]] [[was]] [[cold]] and [[stiff]], i. e. of the [[dead]], Verg. A. 6, 219: [[gelidus]] tardante [[senecta]] [[sanguis]] hebet, frigentque effetae in corpore [[vires]], id. ib. 5, 396.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> To be [[inactive]] or at a [[standstill]], to [[have]] [[nothing]] to do; to be [[lifeless]], [[languid]], [[frigid]]; of things, to [[flag]], [[droop]]: in re frigidissima cales, in ferventissima friges, Auct. Her. 4, 15, 21; cf.: [[quod]] [[tibi]] [[supra]] scripsi, Curionem [[valde]] frigere, jam calet, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 5: [[valde]] [[metuo]], ne frigeas in hibernis: [[quamobrem]] [[camino]] luculento utendum [[censeo]], Cic. Fam. 7, 10, 2: frigens animis, Sil. 16, 598: [[quantum]] stupere [[atque]] frigere... [[Caecilius]] [[visus]] est! to be [[frigid]], Gell. 2, 23, 7: frigere (al. [[frigida]]) videntur ista plerisque, to be [[dull]], [[frigid]], Quint. 4, 2, 59: sermonem quaerere; ubi friget, huc evasit, etc., flags, halts, Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 11 Ruhnk.—Prov.: Sine Cerere et Libero friget [[Venus]], Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 6; also ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 60.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> With [[respect]] to the [[estimation]] or [[favor]] in [[which]] a [[person]] or [[thing]] stands, to be [[coldly]] [[received]], [[coldly]] treated, slighted, [[disregarded]], to be [[without]] [[power]]: [[quare]] [[tibicen]] Antigenidas dixerit discipulo [[sane]] frigenti ad populum: Mihi [[cane]] et Musis, Cic. Brut. 50, 187: [[plane]] jam, Brute, [[frigeo]]; [[ὄργανον]] [[enim]] erat [[meum]] [[senatus]]; id jam est dissolutum, id. Fam. 11, 14, 1: Nimirum homines frigent, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 37; Serv. ad Verg. G. 4, 104: [[Memmius]] [[quidem]] friget, Scaurum [[autem]] jampridem [[Pompeius]] abjecit, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 3 (for [[which]]: [[Memmius]] mirum in modum jacet, [[Scaurus]] refrixerat, id. ib. 3, 2 fin.: [[Memmius]] [[plane]] refrixerat, id. Att. 4, 18, 3): jacent beneficia Nuculae, friget [[patronus]] [[Antonius]], id. Phil. 6, 5, 14: an hoc significas, [[nihil]] fieri, frigere te? id. Fam. 7, 18, 2: prima [[contio]] Pompei frigebat, remained [[unnoticed]], id. Att. 1, 14, 1: cum omnia consilia frigerent, were of no [[effect]], id. Verr. 2, 2, 25, § 60: [[sin]] [[autem]] ista frigebunt, recipias te ad nos, id. Fam. 7, 11 fin.>
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