stagnant
stagnant
adj.
P. στάσιμος (Xen.).
When the lake gets stagnant: Ar. ὅταν μὲν ἡ λίμνη καταστῇ (Eq. 865).
adj.
P. στάσιμος (Xen.).
When the lake gets stagnant: Ar. ὅταν μὲν ἡ λίμνη καταστῇ (Eq. 865).
STAGNANT
stagnans (post-Augustan): reses (e.g. aqua Varr. R.R. 3 17 8): lentus: torpens († lacus Statius): piger (sluggish). (The words are found in this connection and order.) stagnans pigerque (e.g. aquae Plin.).
stagnans (post-Augustan): reses (e.g. aqua Varr. R.R. 3 17 8): lentus: torpens († lacus Statius): piger (sluggish). (The words are found in this connection and order.) stagnans pigerque (e.g. aquae Plin.).
stagnant:
I. Lit.: Standing, as water, not flowing on:
1. stagnans, ntis (strictly, part. of stagno, to form in pools): s. and motionless water, s. pigraeque aquae, Plin. 31, 3, 21. See alsoTO STAGNATE .
2. pĭger, gra, grum: ib.
3. ĭners, rtis (dull, motionless: poet.): whether the water lie s. or run on, seu stabit i. seu profluit humor, Virg. G. 4, 25.
4. torpens, ntis (strictly, benumbed so as to lose power of motion: poet.): s. lakes and motionless pools, torpentes lacus pigraeque paludes, Stat. Th. 9, 452.
5. lentus (slow of current, nearly stagnant): cf. Plin. 36, 26, 65, lentus hic amnis cursu.
6. in same sense, languĭdus: cf. Hor. 2, 14, 17, l. flumine of Cocytus: Liv.
7. expr. stagnant water by stagnum (pond): cf. Virg. G. 1, 384, dulcibus in stagnis rimantur prata Caystri: or, pălus, ūdis, f. (pool, swamp): cf. Hor. Od. 3, 27, 9 (stantes paludes). To be s.: v.TO STAGNATE .
II. Fig.: Inert, inactive: ĭners, ignāvus, pĭger: v.INACTIVE , SLUGGISH . Also of things, as trade, politics: perh. frīgĭdus (flat, dull); and (poet.) languĭdus, cf. Lucan 4, 699. Business is becoming s., forum refrigescit (cum Romae forum a judiciis refrixerit, Cic. Att. 1, 1).
I. Lit.: Standing, as water, not flowing on:
1. stagnans, ntis (strictly, part. of stagno, to form in pools): s. and motionless water, s. pigraeque aquae, Plin. 31, 3, 21. See also
2. pĭger, gra, grum: ib.
3. ĭners, rtis (dull, motionless: poet.): whether the water lie s. or run on, seu stabit i. seu profluit humor, Virg. G. 4, 25.
4. torpens, ntis (strictly, benumbed so as to lose power of motion: poet.): s. lakes and motionless pools, torpentes lacus pigraeque paludes, Stat. Th. 9, 452.
5. lentus (slow of current, nearly stagnant): cf. Plin. 36, 26, 65, lentus hic amnis cursu.
6. in same sense, languĭdus: cf. Hor. 2, 14, 17, l. flumine of Cocytus: Liv.
7. expr. stagnant water by stagnum (pond): cf. Virg. G. 1, 384, dulcibus in stagnis rimantur prata Caystri: or, pălus, ūdis, f. (pool, swamp): cf. Hor. Od. 3, 27, 9 (stantes paludes). To be s.: v.
II. Fig.: Inert, inactive: ĭners, ignāvus, pĭger: v.