Raucus, Adiectiuum. Vir. Hoarse.Nisi ipse rumor iam raucus erit sactus. Cice. Vnlesse the rumont it selfe be now ceased.Sonare raucum quiddam.Ouid. Aeris rauci canor.Virg.Aquis raucis feruet mare.Ouid.The sea is troublous with an hoarse roating of the water.Aquilo raucus. Mart. The whilling north winde.Bombus raucus. Lucret. Bubones rauci. Ouid.Chartæ raucæ. Mart. The papers and libels of aduocates hoarse with crying and pleading.Cicadis raucis resonant arbusta. Vir. The groues ring with the hoarse chirping of grashoppers.Concentus rauci. Sta. Tunes disagreeing.Cornices raucæ. Lucret. Cornua rauca sonant. Claud. Pectus raucum. Sen. Fragor raucus. Claud. Postes rauci. Propert. Fremitus raucus.Val. Flac. Querela longa raucus. Prope. Garrnlitas rauca.Ouid.Guttur raucum. Oui. Riui rauci. Claud.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
raucus, a, um, adj. [from root ru-, to make a loud noise, ravus], hoarse.I.Lit. (freq. and class.): rogitando sum raucus factus, Plaut. Ep. 2, 1, 16: expurigabo ad raucam ravim omnia, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 164, 19: nos raucos saepe attentissime audiri video: at Aesopum, si paulum irrauserit, explodi, Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 259; Prop. 1, 16, 39: cornices, Lucr. 6, 751: palumbes, Verg. E. 1, 58: cicadae, id. ib. 2, 12: fauces, Lucr. 6, 1189; cf. guttur, Ov. M. 2, 484: os aselli, id. F. 1, 433: vox (ranarum), id. M. 6, 377: garrulitas (picarum), id. ib. 5, 678: stridor (simiae), id. ib. 14, 100: quaere peregrinum vicinia rauca reclamat,
screaming herself hoarse
, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 62; cf. circus, Juv. 8, 59 Rup.: causidici, Mart. 4, 8, 2: rogatores, id. 10, 5, 4: Codrus, Juv. 1, 2: cohors (Gallorum), id. 6, 514: illa (puella) sonat raucum quiddam, Ov. A. A. 3, 289; cf. the foll.— Poet., in gen., of the swan: dant sonitum rauci per stagna loquacia cygni, Verg. A. 11, 458.— Comp.: raucior, Mart. Cap. 1, 28; Serv. ad Verg. A. 7, 704.— 2.Transf., of inanimate things, hoarse, hollow, or deep sounding, harsh, rough, grating, etc. (only in the poets): cornu, Prop. 3, 3 (4, 2), 41: cymbala, id. 3, 17 (4, 16), 36: tibia, id. 3, 10 (4, 9), 23: ossa (tubae), id. 4 (5), 3, 20; cf. aes (i. e. tuba), Verg. G. 4, 71 et saep.: murmur (undae), id. ib. 1, 109; cf. Hadria, Hor. C. 2, 14, 14: litus, Stat. Th. 5, 291: Aquilo, Mart. 1, 50, 20: tonitrua, Stat. Th. 2, 40: postes, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 49; cf. Ov. Am. 1, 6, 50: aes (i. e. scutum). Verg. A. 2, 545 et saep.: amnis Rauca sonans, id. ib. 9, 125; cf.: tumidus post flamina pontus Rauca gemit, Luc. 5, 217: arma raucum gemuere, Sil. 2, 245; cf. Ov. A. A. 3, 289.— II.Trop.: te vero nolo, nisi ipse rumor jam raucus erit factus, ad Baias venire,