Torpor, torpôris, m. g. Cic.A debilitation or feeblenesse of the minde. An heanle vnaptnesse to do anye thing: A slouthful heauinesse or dulnesse, as one were astonied.Frigidus torpor. Lucan. Iners torpor. Stat.Graui torpore deuictum premit mors.Senec.Membra nouus soluit formidine torpor. Vir. Vehemens torpor. Cels. Tórpidus. pe. co. Adie. Slow: dul: a sleepe: drousie: astonied: heauy. vt Torpidus somno. Liu.Quod malum quum stupore ac miraculo torpidos defixisset, &c. Li. Which mischiefe with the wonder and strangnesse of it made thÊ astonled, and as it were benummed.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
torpor, ōris, m. [torpeo], numbness, stupefaction, torpor (syn.: languor, veternus). I.Lit.: tutantur se torpore torpedmes, Cic. N. D. 2, 50, 127; cf. Cels. 2, 8 med.; Plin. 2, 101, 104, 223; 19, 8, 44, 155; 29, 4, 28, 90: illi membra novus solvit formidine torpor, Verg. A. 12, 867: torpor gravis illigat artus, Ov. M. 1, 548; id. P. 1, 2, 30 al. —II.Trop., sluggishness, listlessness, inactivity (post-Aug.): implicitas magno torpore cohortes vidit, Luc. 3, 432: torpor recens nimiā fortunae indulgentiā, Tac. H. 2, 99 med.: torpor Vitellii (opp. vigilantia Vespasiani), id. ib. 2, 77fin.: procerum, id. G. 46: utraque res detestabilis est, contractio et torpor, Sen. Ep. 82, 3.