Vibrâtus, pen. prod. Particip. Brandished: shaken. vt Vibrata hasta. Ci. Fulgor vibratus ab æthere. Vir. A siash of lightning pearsing out of the firmament.Fulmina vibrata iactat luppiter.Ouid.Membra vibrata vertigine. Claud. Sibila vibrata per auras. Sil. Spicula vibrata per auras. Oui. Tela vibrata lacertis.Ouid.Darts cast with violence. Vibratus capillus. Plio, The haire curled or crisped.Crines vibrati callido ferro. Vir. Crisped.Vibrissæ.Datres in a mans nose.
Vibro, vibras, vibrâre. Ci. To shake a thing: to make a thing to shake or quauer: to brandi.Sicas vibrare Cicero.To ake daggers threatningly: or to stabbe in with daggers.Bipennem vibrare. Lucan. Hastam vibrauit. Sil. Iaculum vibrare excusfo acerto Ouid.Spicula vibrare. Vir. Telum vibrarc. Lucan. Vibrare dicirur mare.Cicer.In mouing softly, to glitter with a certaine brightnessz.Vibrant fulmina.Cic.Ligh nings glister and shine with a certaine shaking. Iambos truces vibrare. Cat. To write cruel verses against one.
vībro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [cf. Sanscr. vip, to tremble]. I.Act., to set in tremulous motion, to move rapidly to and fro, to brandish, shake, agitate (class.; syn.: quatio, ventilo). A.Lit.: hastas ante pugnam, Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 325: hastam, id. Off. 2, 8, 29: flamina vestes,
to cause to flutter
, Ov. M. 1, 528: faces, Claud. Epith. 97: multifidas linguas (draco), Val. Fl. 1, 61: tremor vibrat ossa,
, Tac. A. 12, 51: impositus scuto more gentis et sustinentium umeris vibratus, dux eligitur, id. H. 4, 15: digitis vibratis jactare sententias, Quint. 11, 3, 120: thyrsum manu, Sen. Oedip. 420: serpens squalidum crista caput vibrans, id. Herc. Oet. 1254.—Poet.: vibrata flammis aequora, i. e.
glimmering
,
sparkling
, Val. Fl. 8, 306: crines vibrati, i. e.
curled
,
frizzled
, Verg. A. 12, 100; Plin. 2, 78, 80, 189.— Mid.: sic mea vibrari pallentia membra videres, Ov. H. 11, 77.—2.Transf., to throw with a vibratory motion, to launch, hurl: sicas et spargere venena, Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 23: conferti et quasi cohaerentes tela vibrare non poterant, Curt. 3, 11, 4: tremulum excusso jaculum lacerto, Ov. H. 4, 43: per auras spicula, id. M. 8, 374: fulmina (Juppiter), id. ib. 2, 308; cf.: vibratus ab aethere fulgor, Verg. A. 8, 524: jaculum ex arborum ramis vibrari, Plin. 8, 23, 35, 85. —B.Trop.1. Of language, to fling, hurl, launch: truces vibrare iambos, Cat. 36, 5; cf. 2. vibratus, II.—2.To threaten: tela undique mortem vibrantia, Amm. 31, 13, 2. —II.Neutr., to be in tremulous motion, etc. A.Lit.1. In gen., to shake, quiver, vibrate, tremble: linguā vibrante (serpentis), Lucr. 3, 657; Ov. M. 3, 34: terrae motus non simplici modo quatitur, sed tremit vibratque, Plin. 2, 80, 82, 194.—2. Of the voice or sounds, to tremble: (haec vox) sonat adhuc et vibrat in auribus meis, Sen. Prov. 3, 3; cf.: sonus lusciniae vibrans, Plin. 10, 29, 43, 82: querelā adhuc vibrante, Val. Max. 5, 3, 2: ejusmodi fabulae vibrabant, Petr. 47.—3.To glimmer, glitter, gleam, scintillate, etc.: mare, quā a sole collucet, albescit et vibrat, Cic. Ac. 2, 33, 105: signa, Flor. 3, 11: in tremulo vibrant incendia ponto, Sil. 2, 664; Val. Fl. 2, 583; 2, 342; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 2.—Of bright weapons: juvenes Tela tenent dextrā lato vibrantia ferro, Ov. M. 8, 342: gladius, Verg. A. 9, 769; cf.: clipeum Vibranti medium cuspis transverberat ictu, id. ib. 10, 484.— B.Trop., of language: cujus (Demosthenis) non tam vibrarent fulmina illa, nisi numeris contorta ferrentur,
would not have been hurled with such vigor
, Cic. Or. 70, 234; cf.: oratio incitata et vibrans, id. Brut. 95, 326: sententiae, Quint. 10, 1, 60; 11, 3, 120. —Hence, vĭbrātus, a, um, P. a., impetuous, forcible: iambus flammis fulminis vibratior, Aus. Ep. 21, 5.