snapping

con-crĕpo, pŭi, pĭtum, 1, v. n. and a.

Neutr., to rattle, creak, grate, sound, resound, clash, make a noise, etc. (class.):

foris concrepuit hinc a vicino sene,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 76:

foris,

id. Bacch. 2, 2, 56; 4, 2, 28:

ostium,

id. Men. 2, 2, 73; 3, 2, 57; * Ter. And. 4, 1, 58: scabilla concrepant, aulaeum [p. 404] tollitur, Cic. Cael. 27, 65:

conclamat omnis multitudo et suo more armis concrepat,

Caes. B. G. 7, 21.—Of the din or clashing of weapons (i. e. of the swords against the shields) when struck together:

simul primo concursu concrepuere arma,

Liv. 6, 24, 1; 28, 8, 2, and 28, 29, 10; Petr. 59, 3;

and of the striking together of the brazen cymbals of the attendants of Bacchus,

Prop. 3 (4), 18, 6; Ov. F. 3, 740.—Of the snapping of the fingers:

concrepuit digitis,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 51: si vir bonus habeat hanc vim, ut, si digitis concrepuerit, possit, etc., by snapping his fingers, i. e. by the smallest effort, Cic. Off. 3, 19, 75; Hier. Ep. 125, 18; so also absol.:

simulac decemviri concrepuerint,

Cic. Agr. 2, 30, 82.—

Act., to cause to sound or rattle, to strike upon (rare):

aera,

Ov. F. 5, 441:

hastis scuta,

Petr. 59, 3:

digitos,

id. 27, 5:

Tartessiaca aera manu,

Mart. 11, 16, 4.

* * *

ārĭdus (contr. ardus, like arfacio from arefacio, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 18; Lucil. ap. Non. p. 74, 20; Inscr. Grut. 207), a, um, adj. [areo], dry, withered, arid, parched.

Lit.:

ligna,

Lucr. 2, 881:

lignum,

Hor. C. 3, 17, 13; so Vulg. Eccli. 6, 3; ib. Isa. 56, 3:

cibus,

Lucr. 1, 809; so id. 1, 864:

ficis victitamus aridis,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 59:

folia,

Cic. Pis. 40, 97, and Plin. 12, 12, 26, § 46:

ficus,

Vulg. Marc. 11, 20:

Libye,

Ov. M. 2, 238:

quale portentum Jubae tellus leonum Arida nutrix,

Hor. C. 1, 22, 16:

terra arida et sicca,

Plin. 2, 65, 66, § 166; so,

terra arida,

Vulg. Sap. 19, 7:

arida terra,

ib. Heb. 11, 29; so absol.:

arida (eccl. Lat.),

ib. Gen. 1, 9; ib. Psa. 65, 6; ib. Matt. 23, 15: montes aridi sterilesque. Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 67.—Also, subst.: ārĭdum, [p. 161] i, n., a dry place, dry land:

ex arido tela conicere,

Caes. B. G. 4, 25:

naves in aridum subducere,

id. ib. 4, 29.— Meton., of thirst:

sitis,

Lucr. 3, 917, and 6, 1175; so,

os,

Verg. G. 3, 458:

ora,

id. A. 5, 200: guttur, Ov. [ad Liv. 422].—Of a fever:

febris,

i. e. causing thirst, Verg. G. 3, 458 (cf. Lucr. 4, 875); so,

morbus,

Veg. Vet. Art. 1, 4.—Of color:

arbor folio convoluto, arido colore,

like that of dried leaves, Plin. 12, 26, 59, § 129.—And of a cracking, snapping sound, as when dry wood is broken:

sonus,

Lucr. 6, 119:

aridus altis Montibus (incipit) audiri fragor,

a dry crackling noise begins to be heard in the high mountain forest, Verg. G. 1, 357.—

Trop.

Of things which are dried, shrunk up, shrivelled, meagre, lean:

crura,

Ov. A. A. 3, 272:

nates,

Hor. Epod. 8, 5:

uvis aridior puella passis,

Auct. Priap. 32, 1; so from disease, withered:

manus,

Vulg. Matt. 12, 10; ib. Marc. 3, 1; and absol. of persons:

aridi,

ib. Joan. 5, 3.— Hence, of food or manner of living, meagre, scanty:

in victu arido in hac horridā incultāque vitā,

poor, scanty diet, Cic. Rosc. Am. 27, 75:

vita horrida atque arida,

id. Quinct. 30.— Transf. to men, indigent, poor:

cliens,

Mart. 10, 87, 5.—

Of style, dry, jejune, unadorned, spiritless:

genus sermonis exile, aridum, concisum ac minutum,

Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159; so Auct. ad Her. 4, 11:

narratio,

Quint. 2, 4, 3:

aridissimi libri,

Tac. Or. 19.— Meton., of the orator himself:

orator,

Quint. 12, 10, 13:

rhetores,

Sen. Contr. 34:

magister,

Quint. 2, 4, 8.—

Of scholars: sicci omnino atque aridi pueri,

sapless and dry, Suet. Gram. 4; cf. Quint. 2, 8, 9.—

In comic lang., avaricious, of a man from whom, as it were, nothing can be expressed (cf. Argentiexterebronides):

pumex non aeque est aridus atque hic est senex,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 18:

pater avidus, miser atque aridus,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 15.—

In Plaut. as a mere natural epithet of metal: arido argentost opus, dry coin, Rud. 3, 4, 21.— Adv. not used.

ārĭdus (contr. ardus, like arfacio from arefacio, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 18; Lucil. ap. Non. p. 74, 20; Inscr. Grut. 207), a, um, adj. [areo], dry, withered, arid, parched.

Lit.:

ligna,

Lucr. 2, 881:

lignum,

Hor. C. 3, 17, 13; so Vulg. Eccli. 6, 3; ib. Isa. 56, 3:

cibus,

Lucr. 1, 809; so id. 1, 864:

ficis victitamus aridis,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 59:

folia,

Cic. Pis. 40, 97, and Plin. 12, 12, 26, § 46:

ficus,

Vulg. Marc. 11, 20:

Libye,

Ov. M. 2, 238:

quale portentum Jubae tellus leonum Arida nutrix,

Hor. C. 1, 22, 16:

terra arida et sicca,

Plin. 2, 65, 66, § 166; so,

terra arida,

Vulg. Sap. 19, 7:

arida terra,

ib. Heb. 11, 29; so absol.:

arida (eccl. Lat.),

ib. Gen. 1, 9; ib. Psa. 65, 6; ib. Matt. 23, 15: montes aridi sterilesque. Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 67.—Also, subst.: ārĭdum, [p. 161] i, n., a dry place, dry land:

ex arido tela conicere,

Caes. B. G. 4, 25:

naves in aridum subducere,

id. ib. 4, 29.— Meton., of thirst:

sitis,

Lucr. 3, 917, and 6, 1175; so,

os,

Verg. G. 3, 458:

ora,

id. A. 5, 200: guttur, Ov. [ad Liv. 422].—Of a fever:

febris,

i. e. causing thirst, Verg. G. 3, 458 (cf. Lucr. 4, 875); so,

morbus,

Veg. Vet. Art. 1, 4.—Of color:

arbor folio convoluto, arido colore,

like that of dried leaves, Plin. 12, 26, 59, § 129.—And of a cracking, snapping sound, as when dry wood is broken:

sonus,

Lucr. 6, 119:

aridus altis Montibus (incipit) audiri fragor,

a dry crackling noise begins to be heard in the high mountain forest, Verg. G. 1, 357.—

Trop.

Of things which are dried, shrunk up, shrivelled, meagre, lean:

crura,

Ov. A. A. 3, 272:

nates,

Hor. Epod. 8, 5:

uvis aridior puella passis,

Auct. Priap. 32, 1; so from disease, withered:

manus,

Vulg. Matt. 12, 10; ib. Marc. 3, 1; and absol. of persons:

aridi,

ib. Joan. 5, 3.— Hence, of food or manner of living, meagre, scanty:

in victu arido in hac horridā incultāque vitā,

poor, scanty diet, Cic. Rosc. Am. 27, 75:

vita horrida atque arida,

id. Quinct. 30.— Transf. to men, indigent, poor:

cliens,

Mart. 10, 87, 5.—

Of style, dry, jejune, unadorned, spiritless:

genus sermonis exile, aridum, concisum ac minutum,

Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159; so Auct. ad Her. 4, 11:

narratio,

Quint. 2, 4, 3:

aridissimi libri,

Tac. Or. 19.— Meton., of the orator himself:

orator,

Quint. 12, 10, 13:

rhetores,

Sen. Contr. 34:

magister,

Quint. 2, 4, 8.—

Of scholars: sicci omnino atque aridi pueri,

sapless and dry, Suet. Gram. 4; cf. Quint. 2, 8, 9.—

In comic lang., avaricious, of a man from whom, as it were, nothing can be expressed (cf. Argentiexterebronides):

pumex non aeque est aridus atque hic est senex,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 18:

pater avidus, miser atque aridus,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 15.—

In Plaut. as a mere natural epithet of metal: arido argentost opus, dry coin, Rud. 3, 4, 21.— Adv. not used.

crĕpĭtus, ūs, m. [crepo], a rattling, creaking, clattering, clashing, rustling, a noise, etc. (in good prose).

In gen.:

cardinum,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 1; cf.

claustrorum (with sonitus),

id. ib. 1, 3, 47:

carbasi,

Lucr. 6, 110:

e motu frenorum,

Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 12:

dentium,

a chattering, Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 19:

pedum,

id. Top. 12, 52:

armorum,

Liv. 25, 6, 21; 38, 17, 5: alarum (anserum). id. 5, 47, 4:

plagarum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 62, § 162:

inlisae manus umeris,

Sen. Ep. 56, 1:

tibiarum et scabellorum,

Suet. Calig. 54:

arboris,

Plin. 10, 18, 20, § 40:

imbrium,

a pattering, id. 12, 1, 5, § 10:

sonitus, tonitrus,

a crash, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 10: digitorum, a snapping of the fingers, as the signal of a command (cf. crepo and concrepo), Mart. 14, 119.—

In partic.: crepitus (sc. ventris), a breaking wind with noise, = pordê (diff. from flatus, without noise), Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 16; Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 5: Sen. Ep. 91, 19; Plin. 27, 12, 87, § 110 al.;

with flatus,

Suet. Claud. 32.

crĕpo, ŭi, ĭtum, 1, v. n. and a. [Sanscr. krap, to lament; cf. crabro] (mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose; in class. prose, concrepo).

Neutr., to rattle, crack, creak, rustle, clatter, tinkle, jingle, chink, etc.

In gen.:

foris,

Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 34; Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11:

fores,

id. Eun. 5, 7, 5; id. Heaut. 1, 1, 121; 3, 3, 52:

intestina (with crepitant),

Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 26:

herba Sabina ad focos,

Prop. 4 (5), 3, 58; cf. Ov. F. 4, 742:

sonabile sistrum,

id. M. 9, 784 (cf. crepitanti sistro, Prop. 3 (4), 11 (9 Bip.), 43): crepante pede. Hor. Epod. 16, 48:

nubes subito motu,

Ov. F. 2, 501:

catena,

Sen. Ep. 9, 8:

lapis, in statuā Memnonis,

Plin. 36, 7, 11, § 58 et saep.: digiti crepantis signa novit eunuchus, a snapping the fingers (as a sign of a command), Mart. 3, 82, 15; cf.

concrepo, I.—Of the voice: vox generosa, quae non composita nec alienis auribus sed subito data crepuit,

because loud, Sen. Clem. 2, 1, 1.—

In partic., to break wind, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. prohibere, p. 206; Mart. 12, 77 and 78; cf. crepitus, B.—In a play upon words: Co. Fores hae fecerunt magnum flagitium modo. Ad. Quid id est flagitii? Co. Crepuerunt clare, Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 33.—

Transf., to break with a [p. 481] crash:

remi,

Verg. A. 5, 206.—

Act., to make something sound, make a noise with, cause to resound or rattle.

Lit.:

(Camenae) manibus faustos ter crepuere sonos,

i. e. clapped, Prop. 3 (4), 10, 4; so,

ter laetum sonum populus,

Hor. C. 2, 17, 26:

procul auxiliantia aera,

Stat. Th. 6, 687: aureolos, to make to chink, i. e. to count, Mart. 5, 19, 14.—Esp. freq.,

Trop., to say something or talk noisily, to make much ado about, to boast of, prattle, prate, etc.:

neque ego ad mensam publicas res clamo neque leges crepo,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 56:

sulcos et vineta,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 84:

quid veri,

id. S. 2, 3, 33:

immunda dicta,

id. A. P. 247:

post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem,

id. C. 1, 18, 5; cf. with a rel.-clause: crepat, antiquum genus ut... tolerarit aevum, * Lucr. 2, 1170.

percussĭo, ōnis, f. [id.], a beating, striking (class.).

Lit.:

capitis percussiones,

beatings on the head, Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 62:

digitorum,

a snapping, id. Off. 3, 19, 75. —

Transf., in music and rhetoric, a beating time; hence, concr., time:

percussiones numerorum,

Cic. de Or. 3, 47, 182:

percussionum modi,

id. Or. 58, 198; Quint. 9, 4, 51; 11, 3, 108 al.

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