terreo

terrĕo, ŭi, ĭtum, 2, v. a. [Sanscr. root tras-, trasāmi, tremble; Gr. treô], to frighten, [p. 1861] affright, put in fear or dread, to alarm, terrify.

I.

Lit. (class. and very freq.):

nec me ista terrent,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 4:

adversarios,

id. de Or. 1, 20, 90:

qui urbem totam... caede incendiisque terreret,

id. Har. Resp. 4, 6:

eum hominem istis mortis aut exsilii minis,

id. Par. 2, 17:

suae malae cogitationes terrent,

id. Rosc. Am. 24, 67:

maris subita tempestas terret navigantes,

id. Tusc. 3, 22, 52:

milites... alii se abdere, pars territos confirmare,

Sall. J. 38, 5:

multum ad terrendos nostros valuit clamor,

Caes. B. G. 7, 84:

mortis metu territi,

Curt. 6, 7, 10; 9, 4, 16:

aliquem proscriptionis denuntiatione,

Cic. Planc. 35, 87:

metu poenāque,

id. Rep. 5, 4, 6:

ut in scenā videtis homines consceleratos impulsu deorum terreri Furiarum taedis ardentibus,

id. Pis. 20, 46:

terrere metu,

Liv. 36, 6, 10:

territus hoste novo,

Ov. M. 3, 115. — With ne and subj.:

Samnites maxime territi, ne ab altero exercitu integro intactoque fessi opprimerentur,

Liv. 10, 14, 20:

terruit urbem, Terruit gentes, grave ne rediret Saeculum Pyrrhae,

Hor. C. 1, 2, 4 sq. —With gen.:

territus animi,

Sall. H. Fragm. 4, 50 Dietsch; Liv. 7, 34, 4.— Absol.:

ut ultro territuri succlamationibus, concurrunt,

Liv. 28, 26, 12.—

II.

Transf.

A.

To drive away by terror, to frighten or scare away ( poet. ):

profugam per totum terruit orbem,

Ov. M. 1, 727:

fures vel falce vel inguine,

id. ib. 14, 640; cf.:

has (Nymphas) pastor fugatas terruit,

id. ib. 14, 518:

volucres (harundo),

Hor. S. 1, 8, 7:

saepe etiam audacem fugat hoc terretque poëtam,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 182:

terret ambustus Phaethon avaras Spes,

id. C. 4, 11, 25.—

B.

To deter by terror, to scare, frighten from any action:

aliquem metu gravioris servitii a repetendā libertate,

Sall. H. 1, 41, 6 Dietsch:

ut, si nostros loco depulsos vidisset, quo minus libere hostes insequerentur, terreret,

Caes. B. G. 7, 49.—With ne, Tac. H. 2, 63; 3, 42:

memoria pessimi proximo bello exempli terrebat, ne rem committerent eo,

Liv. 2, 45, 1:

praesentiā tuā, ne auderent transitum, terruisti, Auct. Pan. ap. Constant. 22: non territus ire,

Manil. 5, 576:

inimicos loqui terrent amplitudine potestatis,

Amm. 27, 7, 9.