SYNONYMOUS TERMS. 117 
—— me tabula facer 
Votiva paries indicat uvida, 
Sufpendiffe potenti 
Veftimenta maris deo *. 
The mariner’s clothes hung up in the temple of NEPTUNE are 
here fuppofed to have been foaked in the fea, and, like the 
grape, to contain a quantity of moifture, which would either 
free itfelf by evaporation, or might be eafily wrung from them. 
Uvidus hiberna venit de glande Menalcas +. 
Longas O utinam, Dux bone, ferias 
Preeftes Hefperiz, dicimus integro 
Sicct mane die: dicimus zvidi, 
Cum fol oceano fubeft f. 
In the laft of the above examples, it appears, that uvidus dif- 
fers from humidus, in being applied to mind, as well as matter, 
and in fuggefting the notion of drunkennefs. This application 
feems to be founded on the kind of the drink which produces 
the intoxication. The amplificative adjeCtive “ vinofus,”’ denotes 
the quality of being a lover of wine, and wvidus as taken in 
the paflage laft quoted, denotes having drunk it plentifully, and 
feeling its effects. 
Mapipvus differs from humidus and uvidus, in exprefling 
moifture that is not contained in the fubftance fpecified, but 
which is adventitious, and affects its. furface. It agrees alfo. 
with the laft term, in fuppofing it void of the capacity of fup- 
plying the wafte of moifture, in whatever way that wafte may 
be effected. It applies to the extrinfic or fuperficial wetnefs of a 
fubftance, whether this is produced by a natural or an artificial 
caufe.. 
* Hor. Car. I. 5. 14. f Hor. Car. 4. 5. 37. 
' + Virg. Ec. 10. 20. 
