- verbero
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verbĕro, āvi, ātum, 1 (old form verberit for verberarit, Fest. p. 230, 15 e leg. Serv. ad Tull.; inf. verberarier, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 7; id. Most. 3, 1, 92), v. a. [verber], to lash, scourge, whip, flog, beat, drub (class.; syn.: ferio, pulso).I.Lit.: So. Sum obtusus pugnis pessume. Am. Quis te verberavit? Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 60:b.
pulsare verberareque homines,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 142; so (with pulsare) id. ib. 2, 3, 26, §66: civem Romanum,
id. Rep. 2, 31, 54:matrem,
id. Vatin. 5, 11; cf.:parentem, servum injuriā,
id. Fin. 4, 27, 76:oculos virgis,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 43, § 112:laterum costas ense,
Ov. M. 4, 727; Mart. 7, 94, 6; Dig. 47, 10, 5 proöem.— Absol.:quo firme verberaturi insisterent,
Suet. Calig. 26:caudā verberando excutere cibum,
Plin. 32, 2, 5, § 12. —Prov.:noli verberare lapidem, ne perdas manum,
Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 41.—Transf., of inanimate things, to beat, strike, lash, knock, etc.:II.locum coaequato et paviculis verberato,
Cato, R. R. 91:tormentis Mutinam verberavit,
Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 20:aquila aethera verberat alis,
Verg. A. 11, 756:verberat ictibus auras,
id. ib. 5, 377:fundā amnem,
id. G. 1, 141; cf.:sidera (unda),
id. A. 3, 423:agros nive (Juppiter),
Stat. Th. 5, 390:undas (Aufidus),
to lash, Luc. 2, 407; cf.:navem (Auster),
Hor. Epod. 10, 3:puppim (Eurus),
Val. Fl. 1, 639.—In a comic pun, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 177.—Trop., to lash, chastise, plague, torment, harass with words:2.aliquem verbis,
Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 17:ne me ut surdo verbera aures,
id. Mil. 4, 1, 204:senatus convicio verberari,
Cic. Pis. 26, 63; cf.:verberavi te cogitationis tacito duntaxat convicio,
id. Fam. 16, 26, 1:orator in dicendo exercitatus hac ipsā exercitatione istos verberabit,
id. de Or. 3, 21, 79:aures sermonibus,
Tac. Agr. 41; Petr. 132.verbĕro, ōnis, m. [1. verbero], one worthy of stripes, a scoundrel, rascal:ain' tu vero verbero?
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 128; Cic. Att. 14, 6, 1; Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 187; id. Ps. 4, 7, 63; id. As. 2, 4, 10; 2, 4, 78; 3, 3, 79; id. Capt. 3, 4, 19 al.; Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 3; 5, 6, 10.
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.