Horror, horrôris, m. g. Cels. A shiuering or quaking for cold or feare. A reuerend feare.-frigidus horror Membra quatit.Virg.Classicus horror.Ouid.The dreadful sounde of the trumpet.Exanguis. Claud. Pale feare.Sacer.Stat. Sæuus horror me circunstetit. Vir. Comæ arrectæ horrore. Vi. I was in exceeding great feare. His heare stared for feare.Aura ciet horrorem membris. Lucret. Armorum ingruit horror. Vir. Tremulo horrore moueri.Ouid.To quake for feare.Horrore perfundi.Cic.To be in great feare.Febres incipiunt ab horrore. Cels. With shiuering.Horror quandoque ad toruitatem aspectus refertur. A pul.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
horror, ōris, m. [horreo], a standing on end, standing erect, bristling.I.Lit. (only poet. and very rare): comarum, Luc. 5, 154; Val. Fl. 1, 229: pontus non horrore tremit, i. e.
was not ruffled
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agitated
, Luc. 5, 446; cf.: montes horrore nivali semper obducti, Amm. 15, 10, 1.— B.Trop., roughness, rudeness of speech: veterem illum horrorem malim quam istam novam licentiam, Quint. 8, 5, 34.—II.Transf. (cf. horreo, II.). A.A shaking, trembling.1. In gen. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): tremulo ramos horrore moveri, Ov. M. 9, 345: horror soli, Flor. 2, 6.—2. In partic. a.A shaking, shivering, chill, coldfit, ague-fit (class.): mihi frigidus horror Membra quatit, Verg. A. 3, 29; cf. Val. Fl. 7, 563: frigus voco ubi extremae partes membrorum inalgescunt: horrorem, ubi totum corpus intremit, Cels. 3, 3: Atticam doleo tam diu: sed quoniam jam sine horrore est, spero esse ut volumus, Cic. Att. 12, 6 fin.: horrorem tertianae et quartanae minuere, Plin. 22, 25, 72, 150.—b.A shaking, shuddering, quaking, trembling with fright; dread, terror, horror (class.): est ea frigida multa, comes formidinis, aura, quae ciet horrorem membris et concitat artus, Lucr. 3, 291: ea res me horrore afficit, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 16; cf. id. ib. 66: di immortales, qui me horror perfudit! quam sum sollicitus, quidnam futurum sit!Cic. Att. 8, 6, 3: me luridus occupat horror Spectantem vultus etiamnum caede madentes, Ov. M. 14, 198: frigidus artus, Dum loquor, horror habet, id. ib. 9, 291: spectare in eadem harena feras horror est, Plin. 28, 1, 2, 4.—c.A shaking or trembling with joy: laetus per artus horror iit, Stat. Th. 1, 494; cf.: me quaedam divina voluptas percipit atque horror, Lucr. 3, 29 sq.—d.Dread, veneration, religious awe: hic numinis ingens horror, Val. Fl. 2, 433: arboribus suus horror inest, Luc. 3, 411: animos horrore imbuere, Liv. 39, 8, 4: perfusus horrore venerabundusque, id. 1, 16, 6. —B.That which causes dread, a terror, horror (poet.): serrae stridentis, Lucr. 2, 411: validi ferri natura et frigidus horror, id. 6, 1011: Scipiadas, belli fulmen, Carthaginis horror, id. 3, 1034; imitated by Sil.: jacet campis Carthaginis horror, Sil. 15, 340.