contremuere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contremesco, contremescere, contremui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
tremble all over; shake (violently), quake; tremble at/with fear, be afraid of;
pl. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...Poenis, omnia cum belli trepido concussa tumultu horrida contremuere sub altis aetheris auris, in dubioque fuere utrorum..." - P
Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...sequendo, clamorem immensum tollit, quo pontus et omnes contremuere undae, penitusque exterrita tellus Italiae curvisque immugiit Aetna cavernis..."
