Obstrepo, óbstrepis, pen. cor. obstrépui, obstrépitum, pen. cor. obstrepere. Plautus. To crie out on one, or make a noyse: to stirre and make a noyse or rustling with the feete or otherwise against one.Vt quodammodo sibi ipsi in dicendo obstrepere videantur.Cic.That in pleading they may in a maner seeme to erie out against them selues.Portis obstrepere.Liu.To crie out and make a noyse at the gates.Vociferari & obstrepere.Liu.Turba obstrepit. Tibull. Exercitus obstrepit pulsis armis. Statius. The armie maketh a noyse with the rustling of their harnesse.Laudi alicuius obstrepere.Senec.To interrupt or be against ones praise.Literis alicui obstrepere. Cicero. To interrupt or trouble one with writing letters.Fontes obstrepunt lymphis manantibus. Horatius. The fountaines make a noyse with running water.Clamore obstrepi, passiuè.Cic.To be cried out against.
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ob-strĕpo, ŭi, ĭtum, 3, v. n. and a.A.Neutr.1. Prop., to make a noise against or at; to roar or resound at; to resound, sound.—With dat.: marisque Baiis obstrepentis urges Submovere litora, Hor. C. 2, 18, 20: remotis Obstrepit Oceanus Britannis, id. ib. 4, 14, 48: multaque nativis obstrepit arbor aquis, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 4: si, intrante te, clamor, et plausus, et pantomimica ornamenta obstrepuerint, si, etc., Sen. Ep. 29, 12: fontesque lymphis obstrepunt manantibus, Hor. Epod. 2, 27: tympana ... raucis Obstrepuere sonis, Ov. M. 4, 392: garrula per ramos avis obstrepit,
sings aloud
, Sen. Oedip. 454: jam genus totum obstrepit,
makes loud lament
, Sen. Herc. Oet. 758.—Impers., there is a noise, a noise arises: non statim, si quid obstrepet, abiciendi codices erunt, etc.,
if there shall be a noise
, Quint. 30, 3, 28.—2.Trop.a.To bawl or shout against; to clamor or cry out against. (a).Absol.: adversarius obstrepit, Quint. 12, 6, 5.—(b). With dat.: certatim alter alteri obstrepere, Liv. 1, 40 fin.: ut quodammodo ipsi sibi in dicendo obstrepere videantur, Cic. de Or. 3, 13, 50.—(g).Impers. pass.: decemviro obstrepitur, Liv. 3, 49, 4.—b.To annoy, molest, be troublesome to.—With dat.: quae res fecit, ut tibi litteris obstrepere non auderem, Cic. Fam. 5, 4, 1.—c.To impede or hinder; to prove an obstacle, hinderance, or injury to. (a). With dat.: detrectare Pompeium, actisque ejus obstrepere, Flor. 4, 2, 9: remove parentem, ne tuae laudi obstrepat, Sen. Herc. Fur. 1030.—(b).Absol.: mhil sensere (Poeni), obstrepente pluviā, Liv. 21, 56, 9: ut accipiatur circumjecto candore lux, et, temperato repercussu, non obstrepat, Plin. 11, 37, 55, 148: scelerati, conscientiā obstrepente, condormire non possunt, Curt. 6, 10, 14: sed clausae sunt aures, obstrepente irā, id. 8, 1, 48.—d.To cry out against, blame.—With dat.: huic definitioni ita obstrepunt, Gell. 6, 2, 4.—B.Act., to clamor against; to oppose, disturb: tamen ejus modi, etiam cum leguntur, obstrepi clamore militum videntur, et tubarum sono, Cic. Marcell. 3, 9: quae in Cn. Pompeium congesta sunt: hinc assensione favoris, illinc fremitu invidiae, litterarum monumentis obstrepuntur,
are perverted, distorted
, Val. Max. 8, 15, 8.—2.To fill with noise, cause to resound: secretus ab omni voce locus, si non opstreperetur aquis, Ov. F. 6, 9.