wave (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. unda (a moving swell, of the sea in gentle motion, or in storm, and of other things, and fig.)2. fluctus, ūs, (a billow, surge, implying more of tide or stream than unda; hence of the sea in storm, and fig. of violent troubles) • wave (subs.): 1. unda (a moving swell, of the sea in gentle motion, or in storm, and of other things, and fig.): the sea is full of w.s, plenum 'st undarum mare, Pl. Mil. 2, 6, 33: w. follows after w., unda supervenit undam, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 176: w.s of air, aeriae undae, Lucr. 2, 151: the Campus and those w.s of the assembled electors, Campus atque illae undae comitiorum, Cic. Planc. 6, 15: the house pours forth a vast w. of saluters, domus vomit ingentem salutantum u., Virg. G. 2, 462: I plunge in the w.s of public life, mersor civilibus u., Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 16. 2. fluctus, ūs, (a billow, surge, implying more of tide or stream than unda; hence of the sea in storm, and fig. of violent troubles): to raise the w.s by wind, fluctus tollere vento, Virg. Aen. 1, 66: when the w.s were calmed, sedatis fluctibus, Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154: to quiet the troubled w.s, motos componere fluctus, Virg. Aen. 1, 155: the w.s of the sea break at the mountain's base, mare frangit fluctus ad radices montis, Lucr. 6, 695: w.s break on a rocky shore, fluctus franguntur a saxo, Cic. Fam. 9, 16: we are tossed in this popular storm and these w.s, in hac tempestate populi jactamur et fluctibus, Cic. Planc. 4, 11: Massilia is washed by the w.s of barbarism, Massilia barbariae fluctibus alluitur, id. Flacc. 26, 63: w.s of anger, irarum f., Lucr. 3, 299. Phr.: in w.s, undatim: Plin.: the sea full of w.s, aequor undosum, Virg. Aen. 4, 313: the sea rough with w.s, mare fluctuosum, Pl. Rud. 4, 2, 5.