watering-place

WATERING-PLACE

Place where cattle are watered aquarium (Cat. R.R.).

Place of fashionable resort for health or recreation (inland) aquae (plur.); locus salubrium aquarum usu frequens; locus ubi est fons medicae salubritatis (after Plin. 5 15 16); (maritime) locus maritimus; ora maritima (sea-coast): mare (sea). To visit a watering-place ad aquas venire (Cic.).

watering-place:

I. For cattle:

1. ăquārium: let there be a w. near, aquarium prope sit, Cato, R. R. 1, 3.

2. ăquātio: here is the w., hic aquatio, Cic. Off. 3, 14, 59.

II. Fashionable resort, for bathing, or medicinal waters: ăquae, arum: the w. of Sinuessa, Sinuessanae aquae, Tac. H. 1, 72: a much-visited, pleasant, and healthy w., locus amoeno salubrium aquarum usu frequens, Tac. H. 1, 67. If simply the sea-side, mare, locus maritimus, maritima ora, may suffice.