Rábidus, penu. corr. Adiectiuum. Plin. Madde or woode as a dogge: furious: in a rage: raging woode: terrible: cruel.Ammi rabidi suror. Catull. Aspectu rabido circumspectare. Author ad Heren. To looke about him with a furious countenaunce.Canes rabidi.Ouid. Certamen rabidum. Sil. Corpus rabidum.Cic.Dens rabidus. Mart. The tooth that one is bitten with, and becomiueth madde.Dolor rabidus. Star. Fames rabida.Virg.Outragious or greedie hunger.Ferarum rabidarum more. Star. Flatus rabidi.Stat. logenium rabidum. Claud. Ira rabida.Ouid. Miles rabidus. Sil. Mores rabidos compescere.Ouid.To represse furious conditions.Murmur rabidum.Val. Flac.A terrible noise.Os rabidum.Virg. Tigres rabidæ. Virg.Voces rabidæ, Claud.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
răbĭdus, a, um, adj. [1. rabo], raving, furious, enraged, savage, fierce, mad, rabid (as adj. mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: furens, furiosus, insanus): canes, Lucr. 5, 892; Plin. 29, 5, 32, 98; Sen. Ira, 1, 1, 6; 1, 15, 2; 3, 30, 1; id. Ep. 99, 24: catuli, Sil. 10, 127: corpus (Canis), Cic. Arat. 110: tigres, Verg. G. 2, 151; cf. leones, Lucr. 4, 712; Hor. A. P. 393: lupa, Ov A. A. 3, 8: bimembres, id. M. 12, 494: alios age incitatos, alios age rabidos, Cat. 63, 93: non impulsus et rabidus, Sen. Ira, 1, 12, 4. — II.Transf., of things: Pelorum (on account of the neighboring Scylla), Luc. 6, 66 Cort. N. cr.: lingua, Prop. 3, 8 (4, 7), 11; cf. murmur, Val. Fl. 4, 239: ut rabida ora quierunt, Verg. A. 6, 102; cf. id. ib. 6, 80: aspectus (draconis), Auct. Her. 4, 49, 62: certamen, Sil. 16, 410; cf. arma, id. 7, 253: fames (Cerberi), Verg. A. 6, 421; cf.: sitis (Tantali), Sen. Herc. Oet. 1077: rabies, Cat. 63, 44.— III.Trop., impulsive, passionate, impetuous: impulsus et rabidus, Sen. Ira, 1, 12, 5: adfectus, id. ib. 3, 16, 2: furor animi, Cat. 63, 38: mores, Ov. A. A. 3, 501: rabida et jurgiosa facundia, Gell. 19, 9, 7.—Adv.: răbĭ-dē, ravingly, madly, furiously, rabidly: omnia rabide appetentem, Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16. — Comp.: raptari, Aug. Mor. Manich. 2, 14.