clamor

clāmor (old form clāmŏs, like arbos, labos, etc., Quint. 1, 4, 13), ōris, m. [clamo].

I.

A loud call, a shout, cry; of men and ( poet. ) of animals (very freq. in all periods and species of composition):

facere clamorem,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 33:

tollere,

id. Curc. 2, 2, 27; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94; id. Q. Fr. 2, 1. 3; Liv. 3, 28, 2; Quint. 5, 10, 46; Verg. A. 3, 672 al.:

tollere in caelum,

id. ib. 11, 745:

ad aethera,

id. ib. 2, 338; cf.:

clamorem mittere ad sidera,

Stat. Th. 12, 521:

edere,

Cic. Div. 2, 23, 50:

profundere,

id. Fl. 6, 15:

compesce,

Hor. C. 2, 20, 23:

clamorem audire,

Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 37:

magno clamore concurritur,

Sall. J. 53, 2:

clamor virūm,

Verg. A. 1, 87:

impium Lenite clamorem,

Hor. C. 1, 27, 7:

ingens clamor,

Verg. A. 12, 268:

laetus,

id. ib. 3, 524:

subitus,

id. ib. 11, 609:

nauticus,

id. ib. 3, 128:

dare clamorem,

id. ib. 3, 566:

it clamor caelo,

id. ib. 5, 451 al. —

B.

In partic., a friendly call, acclamation, applause:

clamor secundus,

Verg. A. 5, 491:

dixi de te tanto clamore consensuque populi,

Cic. Fam. 12, 7, 1:

clamore coronae,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 53;

militum gaudentium,

Tac. H. 1, 62 fin. al.—In plur., Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 152; id. Brut. 95, 326; id. Att. 1, 14, 4; Plin. Pan. 73, 1; 2, 6; Phaedr. 5, 5, 28; Quint. 12, 6, 4.—

2.

A hostile call, clamor, shout: clamoribus maximis judices corripuerunt, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 2, 1; so Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 3; id. Verr. 2, 1, 5, § 12 al.—

II.

Poet., of animals, a cry:

gruum,

Lucr. 4, 182; 4, 911:

mergorum,

Verg. G. 1, 362:

apum,

id. ib. 4, 76 al.—Of things, noise, sound, din:

nubis,

Lucr. 6, 147:

ter scopuli clamorem inter cava saxa dedere,

Verg. A. 3, 566:

montium silvaeque,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 39.