timor

tĭmor ( tĭmos, Naev. ap. Non. 487, 6), ōris, m. [timeo].

I.

Lit., fear, dread, apprehension, alarm, anxiety (cf.:

metus, horror, formido, timiditas, pavor): definiunt timorem metum mali appropinquantis,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 19:

metus ac timor,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 19, § 41:

timor praepedit dicta linguae,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 25:

timore torpeo,

id. Truc. 4, 3, 50:

prae timore in genua concidit,

id. Rud. 1, 2, 85; id. Cist. 4, 2, 45:

in timorem dabo militarem advenam,

id. Ps. 4, 1, 19:

animus timore Obstipuit,

Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 4:

magno timore sum,

Cic. Att. 5, 14, 2; id. Fin. 2, 10, 30:

cruciatu timoris angi,

id. Off. 2, 7, 25: amici nostri, timore de nobis [p. 1873] afficiuntur, id. Fam. 11, 2, 3:

res quae mihi facit timorem,

id. ib. 10, 18, 2:

timore perterritus,

id. Div. 1, 28, 58; so Caes. B. G. 1, 22; 1, 23:

huc accedit summus timor,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 4, 9:

haec sunt in judicum animis... oratione molienda, amor, odium... spes, laetitia, timor, molestia,

id. de Or. 2, 51, 206:

timor incutitur ex ipsorum periculis,

id. ib. 2, 51, 209:

timor omnem exercitum occupavit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39; cf. Cic. Rep. 1, 16, 25:

Parthis timor injectus est,

id. Att. 5, 20, 3; id. Agr. 1, 8, 23; Caes. B. G. 7, 55:

alicui timorem deicere,

Cic. Rep. 1, 15, 24:

hunc mihi timorem eripe,

id. Cat. 1, 7, 18:

ades animo et omitte timorem,

id. Rep. 6, 10, 10:

timorem abicere,

id. Fam. 11, 21, 4:

timore sublato,

Caes. B. G. 6, 23; cf.: omni timore deposito, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 23, 1:

ut se ex maximo timore colligerent,

Caes. B. C. 3, 65:

ea (aestas), quae sequitur, magno est in timore,

i. e. occasions great apprehension, Cic. Fam. 2, 10, 4:

numquam fidele consilium daturus timor,

Sen. Ben. 7, 26, 5. — With ne:

ubi timor est, ne auctumnalis satio hiemis gelicidiis peruratur,

Col. 11, 3, 63; so Verg. A. 6, 352; Liv. 6, 28, 8.—With acc. and inf.:

in timore civitas fuit, obsides captivosque Poenorum ea moliri,

Liv. 32, 26, 16:

subest ille timor ne dignitatem quidem posse retineri,

Cic. de Or. 2, 82, 334.— With in and abl.:

cum major a Romanis metus timorem a principibus suis vicisset,

Liv. 45, 26, 7.—With gen. of the thing feared:

belli magni timor impendet,

Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 4; so,

vituperationis non injustae,

id. Rep. 5, 4,:

repentinae incursionis,

Caes. B. G. 6, 23:

mortis,

Lucr. 5, 1180; Ov. M. 7, 604.—In plur., Cic. Rep. 1, 44, 68; Lucr. 2, 45; 5, 46; Cat. 64, 99; Hor. C. 1, 37, 15; id. Ep. 1, 4, 12.—

B.

Personified, Fear:

Timor,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 37:

ater,

Verg. A. 9, 719. — Plur., Ov. M. 12, 60.—

II.

Poet., transf.

A.

In a good sense, awe, reverence, veneration:

divum,

Lucr. 5, 1223:

quod hominibus perturbatis inanem religionem timoremque dejecerat,

Cic. Rep. 1, 15, 24:

deorum,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 295:

sacer,

Sil. 3, 31:

primus in orbe deos fecit timor,

Stat. Th. 3, 661.—

B.

An object that excites fear, a terror:

audaci tu timor esse potes,

Prop. 3, 7, 28 (4, 6, 70):

Cacus Aventinae timor,

Ov. F. 1, 551; cf. id. M. 3, 291; 10, 29; 12, 612:

magnus uterque timor latronibus,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 67; Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 119. —

C.

An object for which anxiety is felt ( poet. ):

ratis, tot gracili ligno complexa timores,

Stat. S. 3, 2, 80.