TIDE Copy link • TIDEAlternate ebb and flow of the sea, aestus: aestuum accessus et recessus (Cic.): reciprocatio aestus: aestus maris reciproci (Plin.): aestus maritimi accedentes et recedentes (Cic., N.D., 2, 53, 103): With the tide, aestu secundo (opposed to *aestu adverso): when the tide is coming in, aestu crescente; cum ex alto aestus se incitat; going out, minuente aestu (Caes. B.G., 2, 12); aestus marini undae recedunt (Cic.); aestus maris residunt, se resorbent: the tides are governed by the moon, marinorum aestuum accessus et recessus motu lunae gubernantur (Cic., Div., 2, 14, 34): there are two tides every twenty-four hours, aestus maris bis affluunt bisque remeant vicenis quaternisque semper horis (Plin., 2, 97, 99). Spring-tide, Vid: (Figuratively) history shows the tide of political affairs, in historia videre licet quo modo opes civitatum crescant ac decrescant. Time, Vid: Course, cursus, -ūs. Vid: COURSE.