cachinnus

căchinnus, i, m. [id.], a loud laugh, immoderate laughter, a laugh in derision, a jeering.

I.

Lit. (class in prose and poetry; also in plur.):

tum dulces esse cachinni consuerant,

Lucr. 5, 1396; so id. 5, 1402:

in quo Alcibiades cachinnum dicitur sustulisse,

to have set up a loud laugh, Cic. Fat. 5, 10; Suet. Aug. 98:

tollere,

Hor. A. P. 113:

cachinnos irridentium commovere,

Cic. Brut. 60, 216:

res digna tuo cachinno,

Cat. 56, 2; 31, 14; 13, 5:

securus,

Col. 10, 280:

perversus,

Ov. A. A. 3, 287:

major,

Juv. 3, 100; 11, 2:

rigidus,

id. 10, 31:

temulus,

Pers. 3, 87:

effusus in cachinnos,

Suet. Calig. 32:

cachinnum edere,

id. ib. 57:

cachinnos revocare,

id. Claud. 41.—

* II.

Poet., of the sea (cf. 1, cachinno, II.), a plashing, rippling, roaring:

leni resonant plangore cachinni,

Cat. 64, 273 (cf. Aesch. Prom. 90' pontiôn te kumatôn unêrithmon gelasma).