Aries, aríetis, pen. cor. m. g. Virg.A ramme. Aries, Bellica machina, muris vrbiÛ euertendis apta. Cæfar. Cic.A great peece of timber shodde with brasse, in facion like a rammes head.Ariete muros pulsare.Virg. Aries murum percutit. Cic. Aries, Vnum è duodecim fignis Zodiaci circuli. Plin. Aries.A great fishe hauing hornes like a ramme. Vide Pli. lib. 9. cap. 44.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ărĭēs, ĭētis, m. (for the kindr. forms arvix and harvix, in Varr. and Fest.; v. arvix; poet. aries sometimes dissyl., like abies; hence, a long, Carey, Lat. Pros. 47: āriĕtis, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 20, 45: āriĕtes, trisyl., Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44; so, āriĕtĕ, Verg. A. 2, 492) [some derive this from a)/rhn, a)/rrhn, qs. the male sheep; others compare o( e)/rifos, a he-goat, buck, and o( e)/lafos, a stag; and arna, q. v.], a ram.I.Lit., Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 24; 2, 2, 13; Col. 7, 2, 4; 7, 2, 5; 7, 3, 6; Vulg. Gen. 15, 9; ib. Lev. 4, 35 et persaepe.—Of the golden fleece: petebant (Argonautae) illam pellem inauratam arietis Colchis, Enn. ap. Auct. ad Her. 2, 22; Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 7; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 6 al.—II.Transf.A.The Ram, a sign of the zodiac, Cic. Arat. 230; 244; Hyg. Fab. 133; id. Astr. 2, 20; Manil. 2, 246; Ov. M. 10, 165; Vitr. 9, 5; Plin. 18, 25, 59, 221 al. —B.An engine for battering down walls, a battering-ram: v. Vitr. 10, 19; Veg. 4, 14, and Smith, Dict. Antiq.: quamvis murum aries percusserit, Cic. Off. 1, 11, 35: ab ariete materia defendit, Caes. B. G. 7, 23: arietibus aliquantum muri discussit, Liv. 21, 12; so id. 31, 32; 31, 46; 32, 23; 38, 5; Vulg. Ezech. 26, 9; ib. 2 Macc. 12, 15 al.—C.A beam for support, a prop or buttress: quae (sublicae) pro ariete subjectae vim fluminis exciperent, as a shore or prop, Caes. B. G. 4, 17 (di/khn kriou=, Paraphr.); corresp. to capreolus, Caes. B. C. 2, 10 q. v.—Trop.: ex quo aries ille subicitur in vestris actionibus, Cic. Top. 17, 64.—D.An unknown sea-monster, very dangerous to ships, Plin. 9, 44, 67, 145; 32, 11, 53 (where two kinds of them are mentioned); cf. id. 9, 5, 4: trux aries, Claud. Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 163; cf. Aelian. H. A. 15, 2, and Oppian. Hal. 1, 372.
ărĭĕto, āvi, ātum, 1 (arietat, trisyl., Verg. A. 11, 890; Sil. 4, 149; Val. Fl. 6, 368; cf. aries), v. a. and n. [aries], to butt like a ram; hence, in gen., to strike violently (poet. or post-Aug. prose, esp. freq. in Seneca). I. A..Act.: quis illic est, qui tam proterve nostras aedes arietat?
beats so violently at
, Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 1: arietare in terram, Curt. 9, 7, 11: arietata inter se arma, Sen. Ep. 56: arietatos inter se dentes, id. Ira, 3, 4: concurrentia tecta contrario ictu arietant, Plin. 2, 82, 84, 198 al. —B.Trop., to disturb, harass, disquiet: anima insolita arietari, Sen. Tranq. 1, 11 Haase.—II.Neutr.: in me arietare, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44: arietat in portus, Verg. A. 11, 890: et labaris oportet et arietes et cadas,
