Tumeo, tumes, túmui, tumêre. Plaut.To swell: to rise: to be puffed vp.Corpus tumet veneno.Ouid. Lingua tumet. Ouid.Lumina fletu tument. Tibull. Genuum tumebat orbis.Ouid.Vastius tumere. Cels. To swell greatly.Vere tument terræ Virg. Tumere. Plin. To be puffed vp with pride: to swell.Laudis amore tumes. Hor. Thou art puffed vp with alone of praise.Corda tumÊt rabie. Vi. His hart waxeth outragious fierce.Animus tumet. Ci. His stomacke wareth loftie and proude. Tument negotia. Ci. Busineffe swelleth and beginneth to burst out to trouble.Bella tument, Ouid.Warres increase or burst out.Ora rument ira.Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
tŭmĕo, ēre, v. n. [Sanscr. tu-, taumi, tavīmi, to be strong; Gr. tu/los, tu/lh, lump; Lat. tuber, tumulus, tumor, etc.; cf. O. H. Germ. dūmo; Germ. Daumen; Engl. thumb], to swell, be swollen or tumid, to be puffed out or inflated (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; cf. turgeo). I.Lit.: So. Quid hoc in collo tibi tumet? Sa. Vomica'st: pressare parce, Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 11: corpus tumet omne veneno, Ov. M. 3, 33: guttura plenis venis, id. ib. 3, 73: lumina fletu, Tib. 1, 8, 68 (al. timet): pedes, Verg. A. 2, 273: nares ac pectus, Quint. 11, 3, 29: fauces, id. 11, 3, 30: inritata loca semine, Lucr. 4, 1045: Achelous imbre, Ov. M. 8, 549: vela sinu, Mart. Spect. 26, 6: a vento unda, Ov. F. 2, 776: gemma in tenero palmite, id. ib. 3, 238: licet tumeant freta ventis, Tib. 4, 1, 194: sacci multo hordeo, Phaedr. 2, 7, 3: clivus molliter orbe, Claud. de Apono, 12: anni (virginis), i. e.
to be ripe
, Stat. Achill. 1, 292; v. tumesco and tumidus: cujus aceto tumes?Juv. 3, 293.—Absol.: rutam tritam imponunt contusis tumentibusque,
swellings
,
tumors
, Plin. 29, 2, 9, 30; 15, 14, 15, 52: in inmensis quā tumet Ida jugis, Ov. H. 5, 138.—II.Trop.A.To swell, be swollen with passionate excitement, to be excited, violent, ready to burst forth: sapientis animus semper vacat vitio, numquam turgescit, numquam tumet, Cic. Tusc. 3, 9, 19: multis gentibus irā tumentibus, Liv. 31, 8, 11.—With dat. (poet.): accensum quis bile feret famulisque tumentem Leniet?Stat. S. 2, 1, 58: pectus anhelum, Et rabie fera corda tument, Verg. A. 6, 49; cf.: bile jecur, Hor. C. 1, 13, 4: nescio quid animus tumet, Sen. Thyest. 267 sq.: animus irā, id. Phoen. 352: leo animis, id. Troad. 1096: tument negotia,
are in a ferment
,
unsettled
,
approaching a crisis
, Cic. Att. 14, 4, 1: quoniam Galliae tumeant, Tac. H. 2, 32: animi plebis, Plin. Pan. 28, 3: bella, Ov. H. 7, 121.—With inf.: mens tumet jungere, etc., Val. Fl. 1, 199.—B.To be puffed up with pride or vanity, to swell (poët. and in post-Aug. prose): tumens inani graculus superbiā, Phaedr. 1, 3, 4: Mithridateis nominibus, Ov. M. 15, 755: alto stemmate, Juv. 8, 40: partā jam laude, Val. Fl. 3, 677: merito, Mart. 4, 46, 2: vana, Verg. A. 11, 854: laudis amore tumes, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 36: tibicinum gloriā tumere, Plin. 37, 1, 3, 8: Alexander tumens successu rerum, Just. 39, 2, 1: stirpe Alexandri, Aur. Vict. Caes. 29, 2.—C. Of speech, to be inflated, turgid, pompous, bombastic (post-Aug. and rare): nec Ciceroni obtrectatores defuisse, quibus inflatus et tumens .. videretur, Tac. Or. 18; Quint. 8, 3, 18: Musa nec insano syrmate nostra tumet, Mart. 4, 49, 8.
