Persono, personas, pen. cor. persónui, personâre. Ci. To sowne out or perfitely: to make a great noise: to crie out alond with a full mouth.Per vtbem totam personat.Val. Flac.He ringeth ouer al the citie.Aurata cithara personat Iopas. Virgil. Iopas playeth on his golden harpe.Tibia personuit solenni cantu.Ouid.Aurem alicuius personare. Horat. To crie or ring at ones eare.Personant aures voce aliqua.Cicer.That voice ringeth still at his eares: he heareth that continually.Personate tumultu.Liu.In a tumult to make a great noise.Ab æthereo personat axe fragor.Ouid.Domus personuit canibus. Horat. The house did ring with barking of dogges.Personat domus canru tibiarum.Cic.All the house ringeth with minstrelsle and piping.Quotidiano cantu vocum & neruorum, nocturnisque cõuiuijs tota vicinitas personat. Ci. Al that quarter ringeth with singing, minstrelsie, and noise of night feasting and banqueting.Perionabant omnia vocibus ebriorum.Cic.Saxa personuere dulci fistula. Horat. Vlulatus personant tota vrbe.Liu.Wallyng and weeping is hearde ouer al the citie.
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per-sŏno, ŭi, ĭtum, 1 (perf. personavit, App. M. 5, p. 164, 24: personasse, Prud. stef. 34 praef.), v. n. and a.I.Neutr.A.To sound through and through, to resound: cum domus cantu et cymbalis personaret, Cic. Pis. 10, 22: ut cotidiano cantu vocum et nervorum et tibiarum nocturnisque conviviis tota vicinitas personet, id. Rosc. Am. 46, 134; id. Phil. 2, 41, 105: domus Molossis Personuit canibus, Hor. S. 2, 6, 114: ploratu lamentisque et planctibus tota regia personabat, Curt. 10, 5, 7: ab aetheris personat axe fragor, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 46: tuba, Vulg. Judic. 7, 18.—B.To make a sound on a musical instrument, to sound, play: citharā Iopas Personat, Verg. A. 1, 741: cymbalis, Vulg. 1 Par. 16, 5: buccinis, id. Jos. 6, 13.—II.Act.A.To fill with sound or noise, to make resound (class.): Cerberus haec regna latratu Personat, Verg. A. 6, 417: aequora conchā, id. ib. 6, 171: aures hujusmodi vocibus, Cic. Fam. 6, 18, 4; so, aurem,
, Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 314: mons choris Aegipanum undique personatur, Sol. 24.—B.To cry out, call aloud (rare but class.): illae vero non loquuntur solum, verum etiam personant, huc unius mulieris libidinem esse prolapsam, Cic. Cael. 20, 47: quas res isti in angulis personant, id. Rep. 1, 2, 2: totam inde per urbem personat, ut, etc., Val. Fl. 2, 163; Tac.A. 14, 15; Vulg. Jer. 31, 7.—C.To sound or blow upon an instrument (post-class.): personavit classicum,