Wondering or maruailing. Decrescit admiratio. Quint. Affici admiratione. Cic. To marnaile: to be in admiration: also to be maruailed at: to be esteemed. Efficere admirationes in aliquibus. Cic. To make men wouder at. Cepit cum admiratio. He marnailed. Vide CAPIO. Habere admirationem dicitur res aliqua. Cic. That is to be maruailed at. Incessit admiratio quòd, &c. Vide INCESSO. Intermittere admirationem. Vide INTERMITTO. Mouere admirationem alicui. Cicero. To cause one to maruaile. Obstupefacti homines admiratione. Cicero. Astonied with wondring at the thing. Mulcere animos admiratione. Quint. Obtinere admirationem, Vide OBTINEO. Esse in admiratione. Plin. To be in admiration. Traducere auditores ad magnam admirationem. Cicer. To bring them in great admiration.

I. An admiring, admiration.—Absol.: tua divina virtus admirationis plus habet quam gloriae, Cic. Marcell. 26: qui (plausus) non numquam ipsa admiratione compressus est, id. Deiot. 34: perspicua admiratione declaratur, id. Balb. 2; id. Off. 2, 10, 36.— More freq. with gen. of object: copiose sapienterque dicentis, Cic. Off. 2, 14: si quid fuit in isto studio admirationis, id. Mur. 25: admiratione afficiuntur ii, id. ib. 2, 10: admiratio nonnulla in bestiis aquatilibus, id. N. D. 2, 48, 124 al.: cuivis inicere admirationem sui, Nep. Iph. 3: hominis admiratio, Cic. Arch. 4: admiratio viri, Liv. 9, 8; so id. 7, 34; Suet. Ner. 52 al.: in magna admiratione esse, to be greatly admired, Plin. 36, 5, 10, 32.—In plur.: haec sunt, quae admirationes in bonis oratoribus efficiunt, Cic. de Or. 1, 33; so id. Brut. 84, 290; Vitr. 7, 13.—

II. Wonder, surprise, astonishment (cf.: admiror, admirabilis): hoc mihi maximam admirationem movet, Cic. Phil. 10, 2; so, habere, id. Fam. 5, 12, 18: divitiarum, id. Off. 2, 20; id. de Or. 2, 62; id. Or. 3 al.: admiratio ancipitis sententiae, Liv. 21, 3: non sine admiratione, Suet. Calig. 19; so Plin. 7, 12, 10, 56; 16, 26, 44, 107: ut admirationem faciam populo, Vulg. Isa. 29, 14: miratus sum illam admiratione magna, ib. Apoc. 17, 6.—Also with quod: (Decium) admiratio incessit, quod nec pugnam inirent, etc., Liv. 7, 34, 12.