Strepo, strepis, strépui, strépitum, pen. cor. strépere. Plini. To make a noise, properly in going or clapping the hands: to mutter or murmur.Murmure strepit omnis campus.Virg.A great noise was ouer all the elde.Cornua strepuerunt rauco canto.Virg.The hornes made an hoarse noise.Mauors strepit per omnem Ausoniam. Sil. Hæc cum sub ipso vallo portisque streperent, haud ægrè Consules pari. Liu When they muttured or murmured of these things, &c.Strepere inter se.Cic.Strepunt aures clamoribus plorantium.Liui.Their ares ring with the pitifull crying of them that weepe.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
strĕpo, ui, 3, v. n. and a.I.Neutr.A.Lit., to make a noise; to rattle, rustle, rumble, murmur, hum, roar, etc. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn.: fremo, strideo): cum Achivi coepissent Inter se strepere, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 16, 29: vocibus truculentis, Tac. A. 1, 25: apes in alvo strepunt, Plin. 11, 10, 10, 26; cf. id. 11, 17, 17, 54.—Of musical instruments (poet.): rauco strepuerunt cornua cantu, Verg. A. 8, 2; so, litui, Hor. C. 2, 1, 18: fluvii strepunt Hibernā nive turgidi, id. ib. 4, 12, 3.—Of arms, etc.: strepit assiduo cava tempora circum Tinnitu galea, Verg. A. 9, 808: lancea, Val. Fl. 6, 302: tonitrua, Sil. 15, 145.— Of the place in which the sound is heard: strepit omnis murmure campus, Verg. A. 6, 709: omnia terrore ac tumultu, Liv. 25, 25, 9; cf. id. 21, 11, 6: urbs apparatu belli, id. 26, 51, 7; cf. Tac. H. 2, 84: aures clamoribus plorantium, Liv. 22, 14, 8: placidum aequor mille navium, remis, Tac. A. 2, 23: armorum paratu provinciae, id. H. 2, 84: mons tibiarum cantu tympanorumque sonitu, Plin. 5, 1, 1, 7.—B.Trop.: Scythici equitatūs equorum gloriā strepunt,
ring
,
resound with the glory
, Plin. 8, 42, 64, 156: intra Albanam arcem sententia Messalini strepebat, i. e.
was not heard beyond
, Tac. Agr. 45.—II.Act. (very rare): haec cum sub ipso vallo portisque streperent,
bawled out
,
vociferated
, Liv. 2, 45, 5: strepens immania,
making strenuous accusations
, Amm. 16, 6, 1: qui (lucus) Capitolium montem strepit,