verb intransitive

mĕo

2nd PP mĕāre · 3rd PP āvi · 4th PP ātum · conj. 1st

kindr. with Sanscr. mī, to go

to go, to pass poetic •

to go, to pass (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): quo simul meāris, Hor. C. 1, 4, 17: in orientem meavisse, Tac. A. 3, 34: meantes exercitus terrere, Quint. 8, 4, 3.—

figuratively ••

Trop., of inanim. and abstr. things: ita ut vix singula meent plaustra, Plin. 6, 14, 17, § 43: triremes, Tac. A. 4, 5: sidera, Ov. M. 15, 71: sol, Quint. 11, 2, 22: aura, id. 11, 3, 16: vapor per inane vacuum, Lucr. 2, 151: spiritus, Curt. 3, 5, 6: anima diversa in membra, Luc. 3, 640.

Perseus ID: n28744 Key: meo