frĕmo — Lewis & Short
frĕmo, ŭi, ĭtum, 3, v. n. and
I a. [cf. bre/mw, bro/mos, bronth/].
1 Neutr., to make a low roaring, to roar, resound, to growl, murmur, rage, snort, howl (class.;
syn.: frendo, strideo, strepo, crepo): (ventus ibi) Speluncas inter magnas fremit ante tumultu,Lucr. 6, 581; cf. Verg. A. 1, 56:
venti immani turbine,Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 25:
mare,Val. Fl. 2, 646; cf.:
Ister tumidā aquā,id. 6, 329:
montes undaeque,Stat. Th. 12, 654:
saxa concita murali tormento,whiz, Verg. A. 12, 922:
viae laetitiā ludisque plausuque,resound, id. ib. 9, 717:
agri festis ululatibus,Ov. M. 3, 528:
irritata canum cum primum immane Molossūm Mollia ricta fremunt,Lucr. 5, 1064:
leo ore cruento,Verg. A. 9, 341; Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 48; cf. Varr. L. L. 7, § 104 Müll.:
equus,neighs, Verg. A. 11, 496; 599; Hor. C. 4, 14, 23; id. Epod. 9, 17:
lupus ad caulas,Verg. A. 9, 60:
tigres,Val. Fl. 2, 260:
fremant omnes licet, dicam quod sentio,to mutter, grumble, Cic. de Or. 1, 44, 195:
cum in basilica Julia ... omnia clamoribus fremerent,Quint. 12, 5, 6:
omnes magno circum clamore fremebant,Verg. A. 6, 175:
cunctique fremebant Caelicolae assensu vario,id. ib. 10, 96:
cuncti simul ore fremebant Dardanidae,id. ib. 1, 559;
5, 555: animisque fremens,id. ib. 12, 371; cf.:
stabat acerba fremens Aeneas,id. ib. 12, 398:
patres, erecti gaudio, fremunt,Liv. 6, 6, 17: rumor de tibicine Fremit in theatro, Phaedr. 5, 7, 21.—
II Act., to murmur, grumble, growl, rage at or after any thing, to complain loudly.
(a) With acc.:
dixerat haec unoque omnes eadem ore fremebant,Verg. A. 11, 132: arma amens fremit;
arma toro tectisque requirit, Saevit amor ferri,id. ib. 7, 460: si plebs fremere imperia coepisset, i. e. to murmur at, Cass. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 56.—
(b) With an object-clause:
jam vero Arrius consulatum sibi ereptum fremit,Cic. Att. 2, 7,3:
Pedum expugnandum ac delendum senatus fremit,Liv. 8, 13, 1:
praetorianus miles, non virtute se sed proditione victum fremebat,Tac. H. 2, 44:
(M. Bruti) epistolae frementes, fibulas tribunicias ex auro geri,id. ib. 4, 35; Plin. 33, 3, 12, § 39.