Verber, verberis, pen. corr. n. g. Quint. A small long sticke or yarde: a wand to beate with: a scourge: a whippe.Turbo agitur verbere per sola plana. Tibul. The top is driuen in plaine places with a scourge.Illi instant verbere torto.Virg.Ictu verberis increpuit equos.Ouid.Hee whipt the horsses forwarde.Crudeli verbere lacerauit mea terga.Ouid.Crudo verbere mugit forum.Stat.The common place ringeth with lashes of the whippe.Sæuum verber Lucan.Sæuire verbere.Ouid.Recto verbere sæuus scorpius Lucan.The scorpion striking cruelly with his taile. Verbera, nonnunquam pro ipsa verberatione, siue pro ictibus accipimus. Ter. Strokes: stripes.Tergum fœdum recentibus vestigijs verberum.Liu.With the fresh prints of the strikes.Densa verbera.Stat.Thicke strokes.Inania. Claud. Sæua.Virg.Surdo verbere cædit hominem mens conscia sceleris, Vide SVRDVS. Accipere verberibus.Cic.To beate. Animaduertere verberibus. Salu. To punish by beating.Cædere aliquem verberibus. Cice. To beate.Castigare verberibus Ci. Idem. Coercere aliquem verberibus. Ci, Idem. Deterreri verberibus. Ci. Ferre verbera in aliquem.Ouid.To beate on: to lay strokes on.Ferre verbera alicuius.Ouid.To suffer one to beate him.Formidare verbera.Stat.Multare aliquem verberibus. Tac. To beate.Necare aliquem verberibus.Cic.Negare se verberibus. Tib. To deny or refuse to be beaten.Pati verbera, Tibul. Lenta verbera pati. Vir. Præbere manus verberibus.Ouid.Seindenria verbera pectus. Sil. Sonant sæua vcrbera. Vir. The stripes ring.Stare ad verbera.Ouid.To stand readie to be beaten.Subeunt verbera manus teneræ.Ouid.The tender handes are beaten. Radiorum verbera. Lucret. The vehemente heate of the sunne beames.Ventorum verbera vitare. Lucret. To eschew the vehement blastes of winde.Linguæ verbera. Ho. Chidings: rating words.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
verber, ĕris (nom., dat., and acc. sing. do not occur, and the sing. in gen. very rarely; Neue, Formenl. 1, p. 476), n., a lash, whip, scourge, rod (syn.: scutica, flagrum), I.Lit. (rare; perh. not in Cic., but cf. in II. B.). (a).Plur.: Tr. Quid me fiet nunc jam? Th. Verberibus caedere, lutum, pendens, Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 45: verberibus caedere, id. Pers. 2, 3, 17; Ter. And. 1, 2, 28: adulescentem nudari jubet verberaque adferri, Liv. 8, 28, 4: verbera saetosa movebat arator, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 25; Verg. A. 5, 147; Quint. Decl. 19, 3.—(b).Sing.: illi instant verbere torto, Verg. G. 3, 106: Phoebus equos stimuloque domans et verbere Saevit, Ov. M. 2, 399: conscendit equos Gradivus et ictu Verberis increpuit, id. ib. 14, 821: pecora verbere domantur, Sen. Const. 12, 3; of a top: volitans sub verbere turbo, Verg. A. 7, 378.—II.Transf.A. Concr., a thong of a sling and other similar missile weapons (poet.; syn. lorum), Verg. G. 1, 309; Sil. 1, 314; Luc. 3, 469.—B. Abstr., a lashing, scourging, flogging, etc. (class.; syn. plaga). 1.Lit.(a).Plur.: dignus es verberibus multis, Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 71: tibi erunt parata verba, huic homini verbera, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 115: mitto vincla, mitto carcerem, mitto verbera, mitto secures, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 24, 59: aliquem vinculis ac verberibus atque omni supplicio excruciare, id. Imp. Pomp. 5, 11; id. Phil. 11, 2, 5; id. Rep. 1, 38, 59; 2, 37, 62; id. Fin. 5, 20, 55; id. Tusc. 3, 27, 64; XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 6; Quint. 1, 3, 15; 4, 2, 113; 11, 1, 40; 11, 3, 90; 11, 3, 117; Hor. S. 1, 3, 121: cum positā stares ad verbera veste, Ov. Am. 1, 6, 19: saeva, id. ib. 1, 13, 18: tergum foedum vestigiis verberum, Liv. 2, 23, 7: post verbere, Stat. Th. 2, 143; 2, 172.—(b).Sing.: percutimur caput conversae verbere virgae, Ov. M. 14, 300; Sen. Herc. Fur. 801.—b. Of inanim. things, a stripe, stroke, blow (mostly poet.). (a).Plur.: turgentis caudae, Hor. S. 2, 7, 49: ventorum, Lucr. 5, 957; 6, 115: radiorum (solis), id. 5, 485; 5, 1104: aquarum, Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 288.—Of the strokes of oars: puppis Verberibus senis agitur, Luc. 3, 536; Sil. 11, 493; cf. Ov. H. 18, 23.—(b).Sing.: remorum in verbere perstant, Ov. M. 3, 662: trementes Verbere ripae, Hor. C. 3, 27, 24: adverso siderum, Plin. 2, 8, 6, 33.—2.Trop., plur., lashes, strokes: contumeliarum verbera subire, Cic. Rep. 1, 5, 9: verbera linguae, i. e.
chidings
, Hor. C. 3, 12, 3 (cf.: verberari verbis, convicio, etc., under verbero): fortunae verbera,