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Votiva paries indicat uvida, 

 SufpendifTe 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 f. 



Longas O utinam, Dux bone, ferias 

 Prseftes Hefperias, dicimus integro 

 Sicci mane die : dicimus uvidi, 

 Cum fol oceano fubeft $. 



In the laft of the above examples, it appears, that uvidus dif- 

 fers from bumidus, 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 uvidus as taken in 

 the pafTage laft quoted, denotes having drunk it plentifully, and 

 feeling its effects. 



Madidus* differs from bumidus and uvidus, in exprefling 

 moifture that is not contained in the fubftance fpecified, but 

 which is adventitious, and affects its furface. It agrees alfa 

 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. % Hor. Car. 4. 5. 37. 



f Virg. Ec. 10. 20. 



