Torpeo, torpes, tórpui, torpêre. Cicer.To be astonied: to bee a sleepe as parts of the bodie are: to be slow, dul, or heauie.Totus torpeo.Plaut.Animo & corpore torpet. Hor. He is astonyed both in bodye and minde.Torpere metu.Liui.To be so astonied with feare as he can scant stirre.Veterno graui torpere. Vir. To be verie heauie and dul.Cessatione torpere.Cic.To be dul with idlenesse.Acies luminum torper.Senec.Consilia torpent & frigent.Liu.Genæ torpuerant dolore.Ouid.My sorrowe was so greate that mine eies were benummed and could not weepe.Lingua torpuerat retenta metu.Ouid.My tong coulde not moue for feare.Pectora torpuerant longa mora.Ouid.Vires torpent. Vir. Vox & spiritus torpet.Liu.He is so astonied that he can not speake or breath.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
torpĕo, ēre, v. n. [Sanscr. root tarp-, to sate; Gr. te/rpw], to be stiff, numb, motionless, inactive, torpid, sluggish, etc. (syn.: langueo, languesco, stupeo, rigeo). I.Lit.: torpentes gelu, Liv. 21, 56, 7; 21, 55, 8; cf.: digitus torpens frigore, Suet. Aug. 80: languidi et torpentes oculi, Quint. 11, 3, 76: torpentes rigore nervi, Liv. 21, 58, 9: membra torpent, Plin. 7, 50, 51, 168; cf.: torpentes membrorum partes, id. 24, 4, 7, 13: torpent infractae ad proelia vires, Verg. A. 9, 499: duroque simillima saxo Torpet, Ov. M. 13, 541: quid vetat et nervos magicas torpere per artes?id. Am. 3, 7, 35: serpentes torpentes inveniantur, Plin. 24, 16, 92, 148: hostem habes aegre torpentia membra trahentem, Sil. 4, 68: non eadem vini atque cibi torpente palato Gaudia, Juv. 10, 203; cf.: non exacuet torpens sapor ille palatum, Ov. P. 1, 10, 13.—B.Transf., of inanim. things, to be still, motionless, sluggish: torpentes lacus, Stat. Th. 9, 452: amnis, id. ib. 4, 172: locus depressus hieme pruinis torpet, Col. 1, 4, 10: Orpheus tacuit torpente lyrā, Sen. Med. 348: antra Musarum longo torpentia somno, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, praef. 51; 1, 262.—II.Trop., to be stupid, stupefied, astounded; to be dull, listless, inactive (cf. stupeo): timeo, totus torpeo, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 179; cf.: timore torpeo, id. Truc. 4, 3, 50: torpentibus metu qui aderant, Liv. 28, 29, 11: deum volumus cessatione torpere, Cic. N. D. 1, 37, 102: quidnam torpentes subito obstupuistis Achivi? id. poët. Div. 2, 30, 64: torpentes metu, Liv. 28, 29, 11: defixis oculis animoque et corpore torpet?Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 14: cum Pausiacā torpes tabellā,
when you are lost in admiration
, id. S. 2, 7, 95: nec torpere gravi passus sua regna veterno, Verg. G. 1, 124: frigere ac torpere senis consilia, Liv. 6, 23, 7: consilia re subitā, id. 1, 41, 3: torpebat vox spiritusque, id. 1, 25, 4: Tyrii desperatione torpebant, Curt. 4, 3, 16: rursus ad spem et fiduciam erigere torpentes, id. 4, 10, 7; 4, 14, 13.