(adj.adj.) : răbĭdus, a, um, adj.1. rabo
* Raving, furious, enraged, savage, fierce, mad, rabid (as adj. mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: furens, furiosus, insanus): canes,Lucr. 5, 892; Plin. 29, 5, 32, § 98; Sen. Ira, 1, 1, 6; 1, 15, 2; 3, 30, 1; id. Ep. 99, 24: catuli,Sil. 10, 127: corpus (Canis),Cic. Arat. 110: tigres,Verg. G. 2, 151; cf. leones,Lucr. 4, 712; Hor. A. P. 393: lupa, Ov A. A. 3, 8: bimembres,id. M. 12, 494: alios age incitatos, alios age rabidos,Cat. 63, 93: non impulsus et rabidus,Sen. Ira, 1, 12, 4.
* Transf., of things: Pelorum (on account of the neighboring Scylla),Luc. 6, 66 Cort. N. cr.: lingua,Prop. 3, 8 (4, 7), 11; cf. murmur,Val. Fl. 4, 239: ut rabida ora quierunt,Verg. A. 6, 102; cf. id. ib. 6, 80: aspectus (draconis),Auct. Her. 4, 49, 62: certamen,Sil. 16, 410; cf. arma,id. 7, 253: fames (Cerberi),Verg. A. 6, 421; cf.: sitis (Tantali),Sen. Herc. Oet. 1077: rabies,Cat. 63, 44.
* Trop., impulsive, passionate, impetuous: impulsus et rabidus,Sen. Ira, 1, 12, 5: adfectus,id. ib. 3, 16, 2: furor animi,Cat. 63, 38: mores,Ov. A. A. 3, 501: rabida et jurgiosa facundia,Gell. 19, 9, 7.—Adv.: răbĭ-dē, ravingly, madly, furiously, rabidly: omnia rabide appetentem,Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16. — Comp.: raptari,Aug. Mor. Manich. 2, 14.

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