mix Copy link Outline 1. misceo, ui, stum and xtum, 2 (in most uses of Eng.)2. tempĕro, 1 (to mix fluids, esp. wine and water for drinking) • mix: 1. misceo, ui, stum and xtum, 2 (in most uses of Eng.): foll. by acc. and abl.: also for abl. the dat. (poet.), or abl. with cum: to m. poison with an antidote, m. antidoto toxicum, Phaedr. 1, 14, 10: Cic.: Hor.: to m. tears with blood, fletum cruori m., Ov. M. 4, 140: Hor.: for cum and abl., cf. Cic. Ph. 1, 6, init. (ut parentalia cum supplicationibus miscerentur, might be mingled with): Ov. Pont. 1, 9, 20 (cum meis lacrimis miscuit suas): but to denote literal mixing, the abl. alone is preferred. Comps. (1) admisceo, constr. like preced., excepting that the dat. after it is used in prose as well as verse: a kind of root m.'d with milk, genus radicis lacti (sed al., lacte) admixtum, Caes. B. C. 3, 48: to m. up one kind of oratory with another, alicui generi orationis alterum adm., Cic. de Or. 2, 49, 200: also with in and acc., Plin. 26, 10, 66 (admixtis in seminis heminam resinae cochlearibus duobus). (2) c mmisceo, 2 (to m. up together; admisceo, to put one thing to another): constr. same as simple verb, except that cum more freq. follows with the abl., and that with the dative it occurs rarely if at all: Cato: Cic. (3) permisceo, 2 (rare in lit. sense): v. to mingle. (4) immisceo, 2 (to mix in amongst): v. to mingle. 2. tempĕro, 1 (to mix fluids, esp. wine and water for drinking): to m. vinegar with honey, acetum melle t., Plin. 14, 17, 21: to m. brass (the metals to form it), aes t., id. 7, 56, 57 § 197: cf. Hor. Od. 1, 20, extr. (temperare pocula). 3. confundo, fūdi, sum, 3 (to mix well together: rare in this sense). Hor. S. 2, 4, 67.