(verb) : fulmĭno, āre, and
* A. [id.].
* Neutr., to lighten, to hurl lightnings; hence, impers.: fulminat, it lightens (poet. and in post-Aug. prose, for the class. fulgeo): at Boreae de parte trucis cum fulminat, Verg. G. 1, 370: minore vi ad fulgurandum opus est quam ad fulminandum,Sen. Q. N. 2, 23: nec fulminantis magna manus Jovis,Hor. C. 3, 3, 6: fulminantem perjurant Jovem,Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 21.—With a homogeneous object: ignes,Auct. Aetn. 342.
* Trop.: Caesar dum magnus ad altum Fulminat Euphraten bello,thunders in war,Verg. G. 4, 561; cf.: fulminat Aeneas armis,threatens lightning, thunders in arms,id. A. 12, 654: fulminat illa oculis,hurls lightnings, darts fire,Prop. 4 (5), 8, 55.Ov. Am. 1, 8, 16.
* Act., to strike or blast with lightning: caelestis flamma Ingentes quercus, annosas fulminat ornos,Claud. Ep. 1, 40: a deo fulminari,Lact. 1, 10: vulnera fulminatorum,Plin. 2, 54, 55, § 145.
* Trop.: fulminatus hac pronuntiatione in lectulum decidi,thunderstruck,Petr. 805.

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