hoarse

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raucus, a, um, adj. [from root ru-, to make a loud noise, ravus], hoarse.

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.—

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.—

Trop.:

te vero nolo, nisi ipse rumor jam raucus erit factus, ad Baias venire,

has become faint, died away, Cic. Fam. 9, 2, 5.

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ăcerbus, a, um, adj. [fr. 2. acer, like superbus fr. super, yet the short ă should be noticed], harsh to the taste, of every object which has an astringent effect upon the tongue (opp. suavis, Lucr. 4, 661 sq.).

Prop.:

Neptuni corpus acerbum,

bitter, briny, Lucr. 2, 472; and esp. of unripe fruit, sharp, sour, harsh, and the like:

uva primo est peracerba gustatu, deinde maturata dulcescit,

Cic. de Sen. 15:

saporum genera tredecim reperiuntur: acer, acutus, acerbus, acidus, salsus, etc.,

Plin. 15, 27, 32; and since the harshness of fruit is always a sign of immaturity, so Varro, Cicero, Pliny, et al. use acerbus as a syn. for crudus, immaturus, unripe, crude, lit. and trop.: nondum matura uva est, nolo acerbam sumere, Phaed. 4, 2, 4; so Ov. Am. 2, 14, 24;

and trop.: impolitae res et acerbae si erunt relictae,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 14; cf. Gell. 13, 2.—Hence: virgo acerba, not yet marriageable, Varr. ap. Non. 247, 15; and esp. poet. (opp. to virgo matura, v. maturus): funus acerbum, as a translation of the Gr. thaWatos aôros (Eur. Orest. 1030), Auct. Or. pro Dom. 16:

ante diem edere partus acerbos,

premature, Ov. F. 4, 647. —

Transf.

to sounds, harsh, hoarse, rough, shrill:

serrae stridentis acerbum horrorem, Lucr, 2, 410: vox acerbissima,

Auct. Her. 4, 47;

to feeling, sharp, keen:

frigus,

bitter, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 53.

Fig.

Of men: Rough, coarse, repulsive, morose, violent, hard, rigorous, severe:

melius de quibusdam acerbos inimicos mereri quam eos amicos, qui dulces videantur,

Cic. Lael. 24:

posse enim asotos ex Aristippi, acerbos e Zenonis schola exire,

for there may go forth sensualists from the school of Aristippus, crabbed fellows from that of Zeno, id. N. D. 3, 31 (cf. acriculus):

acerbissimi feneratores,

id. Att. 6, 1;

so of adversaries or enemies,

violent, furious, bitter, Cic. Fam. 1, 4:

acerbissimus hostis,

id. Cat. 4, 6 fin.; so id. Fam. 3, 8:

acerbus odisti,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 85 K. &

H.: quid messes uris acerba tuas?

Tib. 1, 2, 98 al. —

Of things, harsh, heavy, disagreeable, grievous, troublesome, bitter, sad (very often, esp. in Cic.):

ut acerbum est, pro benefactis cum mali messem metas!

Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 52; cf. Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 1; Att. ap. Non. 72, 29:

in rebus acerbis,

Lucr. 3, 54:

acerbissimum supplicium,

Cic. Cat. 4, 6:

acerbissima vexatio,

id. ib. 4, 1:

acerba memoria temporis,

id. Planc. 41: acerbissimā morte affectus, Serv. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2 al.—Hence acerbum funus (diff. from above), a bitter, painful death, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 35:

acerbum funus filiae,

id. As. 3, 3, 5, and so Nep. Cim. 4: vita ejus fuit secura et mors acerba, afflicting, painful, unwelcome. —In the neutr. subst.: ăcer-bum, i, calamity, misfortune, Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 21; Verg. A. 12, 500—acerba, n. plur. adv. acc. to the Gr. idiom, Lucr. 5, 34 (cf. acuta et al.), several times imitated by Verg. A. 12, 398; 9, 794; id. G. 3, 149.— Adv.: ăcerbe, harshly, sharply, severely, etc., in the trop. signif. of the adj., Cic. Fam. 1, 5; id. N. D. 2, 33; id. Planc. 1:

idem acerbe severus in filium,

id. Off. 3, 31, 112; Liv. 3, 50. 12; 7, 3, 9; Tac. A. 2, 87 al.— Comp., Cic. Lael. 16; Suet. Tib. 25.— Sup., Cic. Att. 11, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 2; also Cic. Planc. 35, 86, where, of an exclamation of severe grief, acerbissime for acerrime is defended against Lambinus and Ernesti by Wunder, Planc. l. c. p. 217; so B. & K.

ăcerbus, a, um, adj. [fr. 2. acer, like superbus fr. super, yet the short ă should be noticed], harsh to the taste, of every object which has an astringent effect upon the tongue (opp. suavis, Lucr. 4, 661 sq.).

Prop.:

Neptuni corpus acerbum,

bitter, briny, Lucr. 2, 472; and esp. of unripe fruit, sharp, sour, harsh, and the like:

uva primo est peracerba gustatu, deinde maturata dulcescit,

Cic. de Sen. 15:

saporum genera tredecim reperiuntur: acer, acutus, acerbus, acidus, salsus, etc.,

Plin. 15, 27, 32; and since the harshness of fruit is always a sign of immaturity, so Varro, Cicero, Pliny, et al. use acerbus as a syn. for crudus, immaturus, unripe, crude, lit. and trop.: nondum matura uva est, nolo acerbam sumere, Phaed. 4, 2, 4; so Ov. Am. 2, 14, 24;

and trop.: impolitae res et acerbae si erunt relictae,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 14; cf. Gell. 13, 2.—Hence: virgo acerba, not yet marriageable, Varr. ap. Non. 247, 15; and esp. poet. (opp. to virgo matura, v. maturus): funus acerbum, as a translation of the Gr. thaWatos aôros (Eur. Orest. 1030), Auct. Or. pro Dom. 16:

ante diem edere partus acerbos,

premature, Ov. F. 4, 647. —

Transf.

to sounds, harsh, hoarse, rough, shrill:

serrae stridentis acerbum horrorem, Lucr, 2, 410: vox acerbissima,

Auct. Her. 4, 47;

to feeling, sharp, keen:

frigus,

bitter, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 53.

Fig.

Of men: Rough, coarse, repulsive, morose, violent, hard, rigorous, severe:

melius de quibusdam acerbos inimicos mereri quam eos amicos, qui dulces videantur,

Cic. Lael. 24:

posse enim asotos ex Aristippi, acerbos e Zenonis schola exire,

for there may go forth sensualists from the school of Aristippus, crabbed fellows from that of Zeno, id. N. D. 3, 31 (cf. acriculus):

acerbissimi feneratores,

id. Att. 6, 1;

so of adversaries or enemies,

violent, furious, bitter, Cic. Fam. 1, 4:

acerbissimus hostis,

id. Cat. 4, 6 fin.; so id. Fam. 3, 8:

acerbus odisti,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 85 K. &

H.: quid messes uris acerba tuas?

Tib. 1, 2, 98 al. —

Of things, harsh, heavy, disagreeable, grievous, troublesome, bitter, sad (very often, esp. in Cic.):

ut acerbum est, pro benefactis cum mali messem metas!

Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 52; cf. Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 1; Att. ap. Non. 72, 29:

in rebus acerbis,

Lucr. 3, 54:

acerbissimum supplicium,

Cic. Cat. 4, 6:

acerbissima vexatio,

id. ib. 4, 1:

acerba memoria temporis,

id. Planc. 41: acerbissimā morte affectus, Serv. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2 al.—Hence acerbum funus (diff. from above), a bitter, painful death, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 35:

acerbum funus filiae,

id. As. 3, 3, 5, and so Nep. Cim. 4: vita ejus fuit secura et mors acerba, afflicting, painful, unwelcome. —In the neutr. subst.: ăcer-bum, i, calamity, misfortune, Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 21; Verg. A. 12, 500—acerba, n. plur. adv. acc. to the Gr. idiom, Lucr. 5, 34 (cf. acuta et al.), several times imitated by Verg. A. 12, 398; 9, 794; id. G. 3, 149.— Adv.: ăcerbe, harshly, sharply, severely, etc., in the trop. signif. of the adj., Cic. Fam. 1, 5; id. N. D. 2, 33; id. Planc. 1:

idem acerbe severus in filium,

id. Off. 3, 31, 112; Liv. 3, 50. 12; 7, 3, 9; Tac. A. 2, 87 al.— Comp., Cic. Lael. 16; Suet. Tib. 25.— Sup., Cic. Att. 11, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 2; also Cic. Planc. 35, 86, where, of an exclamation of severe grief, acerbissime for acerrime is defended against Lambinus and Ernesti by Wunder, Planc. l. c. p. 217; so B. & K.

crūdus, a, um, adj. [root kru-, of Gr. kruos; cf. cruor, crudelis], bloody, bleeding, trickling with blood, etc.

Prop. (so rare):

vulnus,

Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 11:

vulnera,

Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 19; id. P. 1, 3, 16.—

Transf.

Of food, raw, not cooked: quid tu curas, utrum [p. 485] crudum an coctum edim? Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 15:

exta,

Liv. 29, 27, 5:

carnem mandere,

Suet. Ner. 37.—So also of undigested food:

pavo,

Juv. 1, 143; cf.

trop.: lectio non cruda sed multā iteratione mollita et velut confecta,

Quint. 10, 1, 19;

and, alvus,

Cato, R. R. 125:

qui crudum ructat,

i. e. when undigested food rises in the stomach, Cels. 1, 2; v. ructo.— Transf., of persons suffering from indigestion, etc., Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23; Quint. 11, 3, 27; Hor. S. 1, 5, 49; id. Ep. 1, 6, 61:

crudior,

Cic. Clu. 60, 168; cf. cruditas; so,

bos,

Hor. Epod. 8, 6 Orell. ad loc.—Hence, in a pun, Mart. 3, 13, 3 sq.—

In gen., of all physical or moral crudeness, immaturity, roughness, etc.

Lit.

Unripe, immature, crude:

poma ex arboribus, cruda si sunt, vix evelluntur, si matura et cocta, decidunt,

Cic. Sen. 19, 71:

pruna (opp. maturissima),

Col. 12, 10, 3:

muria (opp. matura),

id. 12, 6, 2 al.:

palmes,

Luc. 4, 317 (viridis, Schol.);

of an abscess,

not mature, Cels. 5, 28, 11:

puella,

Mart. 8, 64, 11; cf. Hor. C. 3, 11, 12:

funera nepotis,

premature, early, Stat. Th. 9, 391; cf. id. Achill. 1, 478:

amor,

yet young, fresh, id. Th. 2, 341; cf.:

crudum adhuc servitium,

Tac. A. 1, 8 fin.:

adhuc studia,

Petr. 4:

crudi sine viribus anni,

Sil. 12, 348:

juventus,

not yet armed, id. 3, 302; Claud. Cons. Hon. 3, 42.—

Opp. to age, and the weakness arising from age, fresh, vigorous:

jam senior, sed cruda deo viridisque senectus,

Verg. A. 6, 304;

imitated by Tac.: quibus cruda ac viridis senectus,

Tac. Agr. 29: cf.

meus,

Sil. 5, 569.—

Unprepared, immature, raw, crude:

crudum et immotum solum,

Col. 2, 2, 25; cf. Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 179:

pix,

Col. 12, 20, 6:

corium,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 116 Müll.; for which, poet., taurus, Val. Fl. 4, 250;

and, caestus,

made of raw hide, undressed leather, Verg. A. 5, 69:

rudis cortice crudo hasta,

id. ib. 9, 743.—Of verses, unpolished, rude:

junctura addita crudis (numeris),

Pers. 1, 92 (cf.:

si forte aliquid decoctius audis,

id. 1, 125).—Of the voice, rough, hoarse:

quia crudus fuerit,

Cic. de Or. 1, 27, 125.—

Trop.

Raw, not prepared or matured:

ut cibos mansos ac prope liquefactos demittimus, quo facilius digerantur, ita lectio non cruda, sed multā iteratione mollita et velut confecta memoriae tradatur,

Quint. 10, 1, 19.—

Rough, unfeeling, cruel, merciless ( poet.).

Of personal subjects:

dicat me Crudum virum esse,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 8, 14; id. Poen. 5, 2, 148; Ov. M. 4, 240:

Getae,

id. Tr. 5, 3, 8:

cena, crude Thyesta, tua,

Mart. 4, 49, 4:

crudus et leti artifex,

Sen. Hippol. 1220.—More freq.,

Of things as subjects:

bella,

Ov. Am. 3, 8, 58:

ensis,

Verg. A. 10, 682; cf. Sil. 7, 113; Stat. Th. 10, 342:

tyrannis,

Juv. 8, 223: crudissimum pistrinum, most rude, uncultivated, Cassius ap. Suet. Aug. 4.— Adv. not in use.

fuscus, a, um, adj. [for fur-scus; cf. furvus, v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 304], dark, swarthy, dusky, tawny (class.; cf.:

pullus, niger): purpura plebeia ac paene fusca,

Cic. Sest. 8, 19:

cornix, id. poët. Div. 1, 8, 14: illi sint comites fusci, quos India torret,

Tib. 2, 3, 55; cf.

Andromede,

Ov. H. 15, 36:

Hydaspes,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 14;

also transf.: Syene,

Mart. 9, 36, 7:

nubila,

Ov. M. 5, 286; cf.:

alae noctis,

Verg. A. 8, 369;

and transf.: amictus (somni),

Tib. 3, 4, 55:

Falerna,

Mart. 2, 40, 6.— Comp.:

altera (fraxinus), brevis, durior fusciorque,

Plin. 16, 13, 24, § 63:

laterna,

i. e. dark, Mart. 14, 62.—As denoting misfortune:

fuscis avibus Larissam accessi,

App. M. 2, 124.—

Transf., of the voice, indistinct, husky, hoarse (opp. candidus):

et vocis genera permulta: candidum (al. canorum) fuscum, leve asperum, grave acutum, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 58, 146 Mos. and Orell. N. cr.; cf.:

est (vox) et candida et fusca et plena et exilis, etc.,

Quint. 11, 3, 15; Plin. 28, 6, 16, § 58:

hic etiam fusca illa vox, qualem, etc.,

Quint. 11, 3, 171 (for which Cic. Brut. 38, 141, subrauca).

Fuscus, i, m., a Roman surname; e. g.,

Aristius Fuscus, an intimate friend of Horace; v. Aristius.—

Fuscus, a soldier, courtier, and sensualist of the time of Domitian, Tac. H. 2, 86; Mart. 6, 76; Juv. 4, 112.—

Deriv.: Fuscī-nus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Fuscus:

explicationes,

Sen. Suas. 4 fin.

fuscus, a, um, adj. [for fur-scus; cf. furvus, v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 304], dark, swarthy, dusky, tawny (class.; cf.:

pullus, niger): purpura plebeia ac paene fusca,

Cic. Sest. 8, 19:

cornix, id. poët. Div. 1, 8, 14: illi sint comites fusci, quos India torret,

Tib. 2, 3, 55; cf.

Andromede,

Ov. H. 15, 36:

Hydaspes,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 14;

also transf.: Syene,

Mart. 9, 36, 7:

nubila,

Ov. M. 5, 286; cf.:

alae noctis,

Verg. A. 8, 369;

and transf.: amictus (somni),

Tib. 3, 4, 55:

Falerna,

Mart. 2, 40, 6.— Comp.:

altera (fraxinus), brevis, durior fusciorque,

Plin. 16, 13, 24, § 63:

laterna,

i. e. dark, Mart. 14, 62.—As denoting misfortune:

fuscis avibus Larissam accessi,

App. M. 2, 124.—

Transf., of the voice, indistinct, husky, hoarse (opp. candidus):

et vocis genera permulta: candidum (al. canorum) fuscum, leve asperum, grave acutum, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 58, 146 Mos. and Orell. N. cr.; cf.:

est (vox) et candida et fusca et plena et exilis, etc.,

Quint. 11, 3, 15; Plin. 28, 6, 16, § 58:

hic etiam fusca illa vox, qualem, etc.,

Quint. 11, 3, 171 (for which Cic. Brut. 38, 141, subrauca).

Fuscus, i, m., a Roman surname; e. g.,

Aristius Fuscus, an intimate friend of Horace; v. Aristius.—

Fuscus, a soldier, courtier, and sensualist of the time of Domitian, Tac. H. 2, 86; Mart. 6, 76; Juv. 4, 112.—

Deriv.: Fuscī-nus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Fuscus:

explicationes,

Sen. Suas. 4 fin.

gĕmĭtus, ūs (archaic gen. sing. gemiti, Plaut. Aul. 4, 9, 11), m. [gemo], a sighing, a sigh, a groan, a lamentation, complaint (syn.: planctus, plangor, lamentatio, questus).

Lit.: quantum luctum quantumque gemitum, quid lacrimarum quantumque fletum factum audivi, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17; cf.:

ut urbe tota fletus gemitusque fieret,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 9, 24; id. Sest. 31, 68: gemitum trahens, Enn. ap. Non. p. 515, 26 (Trag. v. 102 Vahl.):

clamor, sonus, gemitus,

Quint. 7, 2, 46:

gemitus in dolore... gemitus elamentabilis,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57:

lacrimabilis,

Verg. A. 3, 39:

ingentem tollere,

id. ib. 11, 37; cf.:

ingentem dare pectore ab imo,

id. ib. 1, 485:

gemitus toto foro,

Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 85:

continuus,

Quint. 11, 1, 34:

sine gemitu,

id. 2, 20, 10:

gemitu,

Verg. A. 2, 73.— Plur. (mostly poet.):

gemitus, screatus, tussis, risus abstine,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 132:

quantos et virorum et mulierum gemitus esse factos (audivi)?

Cic. Clu. 68, 192; id. Har. Resp. 18, 39:

gemitus edere,

Lucr. 4, 1015; cf.:

extremosque ciet gemitus,

Verg. G. 3, 517:

gemitus,

id. A. 2, 288; 4, 409; 6, 873; Ov. M. 2, 621:

excitare,

Liv. 9, 7, 4:

ad gemitus vulnerum,

id. 22, 5, 4; Gell. 1, 26, 7; Vulg. Judic. 2, 18; Psa. 30, 10 al.—

Poet. transf.

Pain, sorrow, Verg. A. 2, 413; cf. Lucr. 5, 1196.—

Of inanimate things, a deep or hoarse sound:

insonuere cavae gemitumque dedere cavernae,

Verg. A. 2, 53:

dat tellus gemitum,

id. ib. 9, 709:

dat gemitum moles,

Sil. 3, 643:

et gemitum ingentem pelagi pulsataque saxa Audimus,

Verg. A. 3, 555.—In plur.:

plaga facit gemitus,

Ov. M. 12, 487.