verbero

1.

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:

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.—

b.

Transf., of inanimate things, to beat, strike, lash, knock, etc.:

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.—

II.

Trop., to lash, chastise, plague, torment, harass with words:

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.

2.

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.