trĕmor — Lewis & Short
trĕmor, ōris, m.tremo,
I a shaking, quaking, quivering, trembling, tremor.
I Lit.
A In gen. (class.; cf. trepidatio);
terrorem pallor et tremor consequitur,Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 19; cf id. Ac. 2, 15, 48:
quo tremore et pallore dixit!id. Fl. 4, 10:
omnia corusca prae tremore fabulor,Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 42:
gelidusque per ima cucurrit Ossa tremor,Verg. A. 2, 121:
subitus tremor occupat artus,id. ib. 7, 446;
Ov M. 3, 40: donec manibus tremor incidat unctis,Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 23:
tota tremor pertemptet equorum Corpora, Verg G 3, 250: errat per artus,Sen. Herc Oet. 706. — Plur., Plin. 24, 7, 24, § 40.—Personified:
Frigus iners illic habitant Pallorque Tremorque,Ov. M. 8, 790.—
b Of inanim. things:
dum tremor (ignium) est clarus,Lucr. 5, 587. —
B In partic., an earthquake:
tremor terras graviter pertentat,Lucr. 6, 287; 6, 577; Claud. ap. Eutr. 2, 27.—In plur., Lucr. 6, 547; Ov. M. 6, 699; 15, 271; 15, 798; Luc. 7, 414; cf. Sen. Q. N. 6, 21, 3; Plin. 36, 10, 15, § 73.—
II Transf., act., like terror, of that which causes trembling, fear, etc., a dread, terror (very rare):
(Cacus) silvarum tremor,Mart. 5, 65, 5; cf. id. 5, 24, 4:
ponti,Petr. 123.