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* V. inch. n. and a. [horreo], to rise on end, stand erect, to bristle up, grow rough.
* Lit. (mostly poet.; cf. horreo): rettulit ille gradus horrueruntque comae,Ov. F. 2, 502: tum segetes altae campique natantes Lenibus horrescunt flabris,Verg. G. 3, 199: bracchia coeperunt nigris horrescere villis,Ov. M. 2, 478; cf.: setis horrescere coepi,id. ib. 14, 279: horrescit telis exercitus asper utrimque, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. v. 385 Vahl.); cf.: arma rigent, horrescunt tela,id. ib. (Trag. v. 177 ib.): mollis horrescit coma,Sen. Agam. 711: horrescit mare, becomes ruffled, rough, Varr. ap. Non. 423, 7: ut ille qui navigat, cum subito mare coepit horrescere,Cic. Fragm. ib. 4 (Rep. 1, 40 Mos.).
* Transf.
* To fall a shaking, trembling: (puella) Horruit, ut steriles, agitat quas ventus, aristae,Ov. A. A. 1, 553.
* In partic., to begin to shake, shudder, or tremble for fear, to become frightened, terrified (class.).
* To grow fearful, terrible, dreadful (very rare): in terra quoque ut horrescant (fulmina),Lucr. 6, 261: subitis horrescit turbida nimbis Tempestas,Sil. 1, 134.
* With acc.: dum procellas Cautus horrescis,Hor. C. 2, 10, 3: morsus futuros,Verg. A. 3, 394: nullos visus,Val. Fl. 6, 453: mortem,Stat. Th. 3, 70.
* With inf.: horrescit animus omnia recensere,Amm. 29, 3, 9.

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